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At the start of BubbleCon 2024, co-founders Josh and Emmanuel announced the acquisition of Flusk and unveiled Bubble’s newest product updates: AI tools, Bubble mobile, and a new, modernized editor.

BubbleCon 2024 (happening October 1–2) brought together Bubblers from all over the world, both virtually and in person. In their opening keynote, co-founders Josh and Emmanuel talked about how far the Bubble community has come — and where we’re headed.

Bubble has powered three million builders to create 4.69 million apps across 217 countries. ‌And we’ve kept growing, too — pushing past what people thought no-code was capable of.

Among the millions of apps built, Josh and Emmanuel highlighted a few that have exemplified the power of Bubble:

As Emmanuel noted, “This is more than just growth. It’s a testament to how the world is changing and the new ways that technology is getting created.”

This year, Josh and Emmanuel shared new ways we’re making no-code development on Bubble more powerful than ever — so you can keep growing, building, and innovating.

Today, developers are faced with a tough choice: Do you pick a stack built for mobile development or web? Or do you spend millions on developing each separately? At Bubble, we think you shouldn’t compromise. With our latest release, you can have both on one stack.

On a rolling basis, we’re inviting Bubblers to test out the beta native mobile builder. This tool lets you build a mobile app on Bubble using the same database and backend as your web app.

That means you can now not only build an iOS and Android-ready app faster than ever, but create even higher-quality apps, too — they’ll seamlessly integrate with your phone’s original features (like the camera app), send push notifications, and offer an intuitive experience for users.

Here’s what the future of mobile app development looks like:

The Bubble editor is powerful, and allows you to build “nearly anything you can imagine,” says Josh. We’re doubling down to make it more intuitive for beginners and lightning-fast for experienced Bubblers. The next milestone in that transformation launches today: The new workflow tab is officially in opt-in beta.

The simpler UX means you can build powerful workflows more easily. Here’s what’s new:

To try it out, go to your app’s version tab and select Redesigned Workflow Editor under the beta features section.

We’re excited to announce that we’re bringing Flusk into the Bubble family to make no-code more trustworthy, scalable, and robust for everyone. Flusk is an enterprise-grade security tool founded by last year’s Bubble Trailblazer award winners Victor Nihoul and Wesley Wasielewski — two people who are “going to bring a unique combination of passion and product vision to Bubble,” noted Emmanuel.

Built specifically to integrate with Bubble apps, Flusk automates security audits across over 20 critical checkpoints, like data leaks and API workflow protection. It generates instant reports to help you identify and address any vulnerabilities quickly. It also has real-time error and bug monitoring, so it’s easy to keep your app running without disruptions. Flusk includes simple manual testing to help you find and fix deeper security issues if you need to — no technical expertise required.

“Flusk has built a fantastic product on Bubble,” said Emmanuel. “Not to mention that they were able to accomplish this with just the two founders over the span of a couple of years.” With Flusk on Bubble’s platform, both early-stage founders and scaling startups can focus on building and scaling their products while knowing their apps are secure, compliant, and reliable.

Bubble was built on the promise of simplicity. That’s why pairing Bubble with AI — a technology that founders everywhere are using to bring their products to market in record time — felt like a natural fit. But we know AI alone isn’t enough: It builds a cool first draft, but then what? You’re stuck trying to navigate a big block of code you used AI to try to avoid. Then, you’re stuck trying to fix all the bugs in the traditional code.

“There are some very, very cool day-one demos of users typing in a sentence and the tool spitting out the code for a working app,” said Josh. “But listen carefully to those demos and notice what they aren’t talking about. They aren’t talking about day two.”

Bubble is putting an end to this. In November, builders will get access to our new AI builder. You’ll be able to type instructions in your own words into Bubble and immediately receive a fully functional app — complete with a polished front and backend, workflows, and logic — all within ten minutes. And here’s the game-changer: Our AI builder spits out design, data, and logic in Bubble’s visual programming language, not code.

“With Bubble Day 2, you're not stuck reading code trying to understand it. You're editing the design, data, and logic in our visual human-understandable interface, and you're working in the Bubble editor, which is an integrated full-stack modern tool for iterating,” said Josh.
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In the first-ever State of No-Code Report we published this year, we learned that 64% of no-code users believe that most human developers will primarily use no-code by 2030. That’s less than six years from now. And 40% predict that AI will make traditional coding largely obsolete by then.

Bubble builders are transforming how the world builds technology. Josh and Emmanuel shared stories of founders who came to Bubble to use the power of AI to do just that. And at this year’s BubbleCon — made possible by our sponsors Codi Technologies, NerdHeadz, Airdev, Zeroqode, and Rapid Dev — we’re eager to show our community how we’ll help them build.

Beyond that, we’re excited to showcase how building with Bubble is about more than just speed and efficiency. “Our team is hard at work to ensure that building on Bubble remains fun. At the end of the day, we believe that when development is enjoyable, that’s when real success happens,” said Emmanuel.