Bubble is a

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, a

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and an application

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, developed by Bubble Group, that enables non-technical people to build web applications without needing to type code. Instead, users draw the interface by dragging and dropping elements onto a page and defining workflows to control the logic. Bubble's vision is to make hand-coding for web applications largely obsolete.

Overview

Bubble's visual development platform is used to create websites and web applications with more advanced functionality than what is possible with template-oriented website builders such as Wix and

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. It is used by non-technical startup founders, in schools for education purposes, and by other organizations for commercial purposes. Bubble allows users to build web applications including social media sites like

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, marketplaces like

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and

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, services like

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, and more through tutorials. Bubble offers its own API integrations, templates and plugins. Users of the platform have also created new third-party templates, plugins and service built within the Bubble eco-system.

History

Bubble was founded by Emmanuel Straschnov and Josh Haas in 2012 in

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. Bubble has been bootstrapped for seven years. In 2019, Bubble raised $6M from SignalFire, Neo, Nas, Eric Ries and the founders of

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, Allbirds,

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, Harry's. Bubble was named one of

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's Most Innovative Companies of 2021. Web traffic to Bubble's websites have increased at a compounded growth rate of greater than 50% from 2017 to 2021.

References

External links

* {{Official, https://bubble.io Visual programming languages 2012 software