Though experienced entrepreneur and no-code founder Jeremy Redman had always wanted to build a business on Bubble, he’d only scratched the surface of the platform back in 2020. That changed in 2024 when he stumbled upon Mailead, a simple email tool built on Bubble, for sale at $10,000. He saw the opportunity as a challenge to build not just an app on Bubble, but a successful business around one.
In just three months, his $10,000 investment has proved successful: The revamped Mailead has more than 3,000 users and $400,000 in revenue — and is currently valued at $2 million.
From costly cold outreach to a Bubble business opportunity
In 2024, Jeremy was bootstrapping an automation tool called Taskmagic. He relied on an email outreach tool to find customers but quickly found the costs unsustainable.
In his search for an alternative, he spotted Mailead, a Bubble-built email app, for sale at $10,000. Although Jeremy was familiar with just the basics of Bubble, the app — with only a few hundred users and zero revenue — seemed like an exciting opportunity.
"Bubble handles it all — the database, the application, all the activity. It’s night and day.”
“When I discovered this Bubble app for sale, I was like, ‘Why don’t I buy this?’ It’s the exact same thing as this expensive tool I’m using.” But replicating the existing product wasn’t his primary motivation.
“It’s easy for anyone to make an app in Bubble — that’s a true testament to the platform. What’s hard is building a real business around it, and I wanted to see how quickly I could do that,” he says.
An affordable email tool with advanced AI integrations
Jeremy’s vision for a new and improved Mailead was clear: build an all-in-one email tool that helps founders land their first customers. The platform would combine cold email outreach with a full CRM system, matching the capabilities of premium tools like Lemlist and Instantly, but at a price bootstrapped entrepreneurs could afford.
In the end, that’s what he did. Jeremy’s Mailead app allows users to connect to their email of choice, like Gmail or Outlook. Users then create drip campaigns that are housed in one single inbox, which Mailead calls the “Unbox.”
From there, they can track replies and manage customer conversations within the app. The built-in CRM system helps users move leads through their sales pipeline, from initial cold outreach to qualifying prospects and tracking deal values.
So far, Jeremy says his decision to build on Bubble has been one of his best yet. “Directly comparing and contrasting this with the other tech company that I built, Mailead is drastically easier to manage because Bubble handles it all — the database, the application, all the activity. [It’s] night and day.”
$400,000 in revenue, 3,000 users, a $2 million valuation, and beyond
Within the first week, Mailead generated $60,000 and onboarded 900 users. After its public launch in late November, revenue surged by an additional $300,000 with 2,000 more users, making the $10,000 investment a half-million-dollar success story in just three months. Today, the company is valued at $2 million.
“It is such an empowering feeling to take a sort of “template” and build a real, meaningful business around it in Bubble. I’ve proven to myself that I can do that and build something people want to buy.”
In fact, the venture has been so successful that his two-person development team plan on pushing Mailead’s boundaries even further by integrating AI for automated customer support.
To test the integration, Mailead has been using the AI replies on its own customer base. “[The tool] is handling all our paying customers without a full-time support person,” he says. “It’s closing sales on its own.”
Building a business on Bubble
Jeremy credits a lot of the business’ success to Bubble, given how fast he was able to get the app up and running. “If I went the traditional route, it would be still in development — what took us six weeks with Bubble would have taken us six months with custom code.”
"What took us six weeks with Bubble would have taken us six months with custom code."
As a serial entrepreneur, Jeremy urges all founders to take advantage of Bubble, and even explore a similar opportunity.
“Bubble is the best no-code web app builder, hands down. If you’re thinking about learning a language, don’t. Learn Bubble instead. And if you see an expensive product, build it on Bubble. That’s what I want people to know — anyone can do what I did.”
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