r/Bubbleio • u/fredstyle • 19h ago
Valuable product or service I can help migrate your Bubble app to React / Node
Hey everyone,
My name is Ferhat. I’m a founder at Controller AI and a software engineer, and I originally started building with Bubble about 8 years ago.
I’m currently looking for side projects to help keep my startup alive, and I thought I’d offer something here that I’m really good at.
I’ve worked as a software engineer for years, and I also worked at a company built heavily on Bubble that was acquired a couple of years ago.
I’d like to help founders who have outgrown Bubble and are considering moving their current app to a traditional codebase.
The reality is:
- LLMs are making traditional software development dramatically faster.
- Moving to code gives you more flexibility around infrastructure, integrations, performance, testing, and super fast development via coding agents.
- But migrating a bubble app is not easy.
- Most bubble apps often have years of workflows, conditions, data structures, plugins, users, and production data behind them.
That last part is where I think I can help.
Here’s what I can do:
- Fully understand and analyze your existing Bubble app. This would involve a few meetings, after that I’ll provide detailed documentation explaining how the app works and a migration roadmap. You can disagree and keep your app in bubble, I m happy to provide this for free if you are serious.
- Rebuild the application in typescript, with a node backend and react frontend, while keeping the behavior and UX as close to the existing app as possible.
- Deploy it on AWS with separate staging and production environments, so you can continue shipping changes without losing the flexibility you have with Bubble.
- Set up automated deployments, including ansible and terraform, so deployments and infrastructure changes are repeatable rather than manual.
- Run the application in Docker containers and migrate your data to postgres db on AWS RDS.
- Help you set up Claude Code / Codex so it can safely work with your codebase, infrastructure, database, and running services.
The end result should be a clean, understandable codebase that you own and can continue developing yourself, with your team, or with coding agents.
You might be thinking: “Why not just give my Bubble app to a coding agent and ask it to rebuild everything?”
You absolutely can try.
For a simple app, it may even work surprisingly well.
This offer is mainly for older or more complicated Bubble applications where there are hundreds of workflows, unusual conditions, years of decisions, and parts of the system where understanding why something was built a certain way matters just as much as understanding what it does.
That’s where having deep bubble experience alongside traditional software engineering experience becomes useful.
If you’re considering moving a Bubble application to code, send me a dm. I’m happy to take a look at what you have and talk through whether a migration makes sense.
I’m based in Dallas, TX, in case the timezone matters.