Kelly Claus

The @CreateWithHQ talks are finally up on the ol' YouTubes! Here's my little spiel about branding your MVP with AI (link in first comment):

But seriously, hHw did we ever do Regex before AI?

@george_nqu @bubble Even I'm not brave enough to say what you just said. But I support it.

@ClausISaidSo @bubble I follow in the footsteps of your greatness

Everyone I work with that is thinking of leaving @bubble starts with ‘I love Bubble, but…’ Which is super interesting. Because how could a company with such positive user sentiment fumble their lead so catastrophically. What is Bubble doing that makes advocates consider leaving? The answer is probably more in what is Bubble *not* doing. If you look at the feature releases for the last 6-12 months, the biggest feature released by Bubble for existing serious users with real businesses on Bubble that don’t have native mobile apps, is button icons. Button icons! In 2026! And the most important ‘feature’ released altogether for this user segment has been Buildprint, which isn’t even built by Bubble! The property editor updates are fine but don’t move the needle for anyone because experienced users already knew the ins and outs of the old ones so updating it would never be a priority for them. The biggest question we have as users is ‘who is Bubble for?’. If you’re non-technical, you can’t really build anything substantial on Bubble and claiming as such is just wishful thinking. If you’re technical enough to use Bubble, you’re also technical enough to use AI-assisted development with code. Not even the Bubble TEAM knows who Bubble is for. @emmanuel_s has this even been agreed? How can a product roadmap exist if you don’t know who you’re building for? ‘Win first builds’ but win first builds from *who*? There’s no sense of direction or coherent vision that we can see externally based on Bubble’s releases and marketing. The serious users of the platform have basically been given nothing over the last year, so why would they believe they should stick with Bubble and trust they’ll get the features they need, when Bubble’s offered no words or actions to that effect? For many it will be too little too late and the decision has been made to move off of Bubble. But for most, who are still unsure, Bubble has the opportunity to extend an offer to them and commit to features that they need, like workflow branching, returning data from backend workflows etc. But on the current course, it will keep being ‘next year we’ll work on power users’ but it’ll never be attended to because the new user experience will always take priority. It’s all good prioritising new users, until the existing users spending thousands of dollars a month decide to leave and revenue starts leaking from the back door of the platform. I’m not naive to the importance of continued growth and staying relevant in an AI world but the reality is that a significant number of apps are now considering migrating (many for the wrong reasons, and they don’t actually need to migrate - but that doesn’t change the maths for Bubble). Bubble has an opportunity over the next few months to extend an olive branch to serious apps and give them things they’ve been waiting for years for. Waiting any longer will be too little too late for many. I’m rooting for Bubble and invest in the platform because it can have a future if it moves in the right (or even just any) direction. I’m not going to just stand by it if we get nothing back, though.

Well hello, @CreateWithHQ, excited to see you all again...

@ajay__pawriya @bubble Partly because I genuinely enjoy working in Bubble and I'm good at it. I have a client base & a solid career that would be dumb to just throw away. That said, I'm not just ignoring all this new stuff, and I'm not going to be loyal to any platform if it stops making sense for me.

@ClausISaidSo @bubble Kelly, I am genuinely curious. why rely on bubble still? Even though you can vibe code so easily nowadays with so many new tools in english language. code ownership easy to edit - just a phrase in english highly customizable - use any library pay only when you build.

I'm becoming more and more convinced that if your @bubble editor is "crazy slow" it really means you've got too much crap on the page.

Figured out a sneaky little way to add notes to properties in @bubble reusable. And while I'm very pleased with myself, I sure wish stuff like this was just built in and didn't require a bunch of silly workarounds.

New Year New Things x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Pissing off users x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Kelly dropkicks Jon x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The man, the myth, the legend. @emmanuel_s is taking the floor again. Come with your questions. youtube.com/live/K6IZXckY7…

Happy Wednesday, my friends. @bubble_hack and I are livestreaming nowwwww...

Jon And Kelly Talk x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@fede_bubble @bubble You wanna do it for me, @fede_bubble? I hear you've got some pull...

@ClausISaidSo @bubble lol 🤣

Booooooo I'm gonna miss this. Any other @bubble'rs wanna go and bug Emmanuel about 16px min height on new groups for me? 🙏

Everyone go here right now and nominate @_sarahesteve for @bubble's Community Champion of the year. form.typeform.com/to/qpGEZmYH

@tobyallen007 @george_nqu @bubble no, not totally necessary, but it's small things like this that make a product a pleasure to use. i've wanted this for a while.

@george_nqu @bubble @ClausISaidSo This doesn't feel like a needed feature... there's much more important prios than this..

Looks like @bubble just made properties reorderable. This is awesome! @ClausISaidSo what's your verdict?!

In ~15 min, @bubble's latest group of Immerse founders will be presenting what they've built over the past 12 wks. I was 💙honored💙 to teach these folks how to use Bubble to build out their ideas & I'm SO proud of what they've been able to accomplish. Come hang out & watch their demos: events.ringcentral.com/events/immerse…

We're back with the livestream! @bubble_hack and I are talking NOWNOWNOW about... I don't actually know what. But it'll be fun, come.

Jon and Kelly Talk x.com/i/broadcasts/1…