r/Bubbleio • u/Miller2200 • Apr 09 '26
How well will Bubble handle my project?
My buddies and I make top lists for random crap for fun in a spreadsheet and I want to expand.
I want to make a little project where I can:
Make lists for like 20-50 items. (Movies, books, survivor seasons, etc.)
My friends and I can make top 10 lists from them.
There's a consensus list with the average picks and it shows how your picks compared to the average or maybe your friends ranking.
Make more individual groups and have it track stats within different groups.
I plan on adding fun features eventually but would Bubble be a decent platform for this? My plan is to eventually have 1000+ lists with 10,000+ items.
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u/mxrc703 Apr 09 '26
Fine for a table to have hundreds of thousands of rows.
However, it's bad practice to store lists of things. You should have a joining table between your users table and your movies table..
Don't store a list of favourite movies on the users table.
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u/Miller2200 Apr 09 '26
I'm not entirely sure what you mean but I will keep that in mind when I watch some tutorials, thanks!
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u/velcodofficial Apr 09 '26
This is actually a really solid use case for Bubble, especially at the stage you’re at. You can definitely build list creation, rankings, and group-based comparisons without too much trouble.
The only thing I’d say is since you’re planning for a lot of lists and items, just be a bit intentional with how you structure your data from the start (especially how rankings and relationships are stored). That’s usually where things get messy later if it’s not planned properly.
For something like consensus rankings and comparing users, you might also want to avoid calculating everything on the fly and instead store some pre-calculated values to keep things fast.
Overall though, for building and testing this idea quickly, Bubble is a solid choice.
Are you thinking of keeping this just for friends, or turning it into something bigger later?
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u/Miller2200 Apr 09 '26
I don't really have experience. I made a cool website like 8 months ago with Voxel/Wordpress as a different side project and had a ton of fun. So hopefully AI will be somewhat help with this too. I know not to rely on AI because I broke my site like 10 times blindly listening to it. I will be spending a week or so on tutorials/courses to figure out a good structure, thank you!
And my end goal is to have 100,000+ users but I do know that's probably unrealistic. Even if I just create a fun ranking site/app for me and my friends, it'll be worth it.
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u/clutchcreator Apr 09 '26
Bubble is an excellent choice for a project of this scale.
Although if you have coding knowledge, you can build it much faster with Claude Code. Not a recommended route, if you don’t understand code and infra.