My experience with Bubble and the learning curve

I have had the experience of working with programmers in the past, both for work and personal use. My experience has given me an education with some of the basics in regard to knowing what I need in order to have different types of applications and websites developed.

Prior to discussing my experience with Bubble, I want to say that Indie Hackers has been a GREAT resource and helped me in a huge way to learn more about the tools and resources that are available! If you haven't personally reached out to anyone for help on Indie Hackers, then I would highly suggest that you do! Without reaching out to people - I would have never vetted the approach that I was taking and I would have wasted tons of money!

With that said - I have taken on Bubble.io for use of building an MVP. For me personally, it that it suits me pretty well for what I am trying to accomplish on a scalability level. It's a little bit tough at times , and I have complained about the learning curve and other things, but after persevering through it I can say that it's worth it.

Here's the approach that I used to get through the frustration of my learning curve:

• Confirmed that I needed specific features for my website, but I didn't know which approach was the best so I spoke with several people to IH to vet my features and which platforms would help from a no-code approach.

• Watched this video to confirm which approach was best for me (after ruling out WordPress and outsourcing development)
  Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8di3DqM8MP8

• I went through the bubble tutorials that were provided, and then I purchased a template that had SOME of the features that I needed for my site. (This helped with the bare bones for the DB and it was relevant to what I needed for my specific project).

• I used the bubble blogs to build out some templates that had features that were relevant to me. The helped me understand the infrastructure and what does what and why it does what it does
  Link: https://bubble.io/blog/tag/how-to/

• I watched videos that were relevant to some specific features that I needed to build out

• I added the features from the previous builds that I saved in my templates from the how to blogs.

In short: I took the bubble lessons. I purchased a template that was relevant to what I needed and then I tweaked a large amount of it. I built some of the example tutorials that had features that I needed so that I could understand what does what and why it does. I looked up some videos on YouTube and NoCodify.

Goo luck!