Move off Bubble onto a modern code stack without losing the velocity that got you here. Discovery-led, slice-by-slice, with your Bubble app live through the entire cutover.
By an ex-Airdev engineer who’s the primary development partner on Ohana - one of Bubble’s greatest success stories.
Pages slow down at scale. Database searches that used to be instant now show loading spinners. Server capacity costs are climbing without obvious wins.
The features you need next - background jobs that actually queue, fine-grained permissions, complex Stripe flows, custom integrations - all fight the platform's abstractions.
Senior engineers don’t want to spend their careers in a visual editor. Your talent pool is small, expensive, and rarely available when something breaks.
Bubble owns your hosting, your data, your editor. Every pricing change, every platform regression, every limit is theirs to set - and yours to absorb.
We’ve seen them all - inside Airdev, inside Ohana, and in apps founders bring us after they’ve already burned a year and a six-figure SOW. The patterns are predictable.
Xano, Supabase, or Firebase plugged in alongside Bubble. Every cross-system call adds latency, every webhook is another failure mode, and your data model is now split across two places that don’t know about each other.
Why it fails: Looks cheap. Quietly costs more in latency, debugging, and lock-in than just migrating.
Six-to-nine months of dark-room rebuilding, ending in a single cutover day where everything either works or doesn’t. Customer comms have to land perfectly. Bugs at launch hit every user at once.
Why it fails: Concentrates every bit of launch risk into one switch-over day. Most agencies still do it because it's easier to scope and bill.
The agency reproduces every Bubble Data Type, every workflow, every quirk - 1:1 - in the new stack. You ship a code app that still has Bubble’s shape, just with more code to maintain.
Why it fails: Migrates the technical debt instead of fixing it. You spent six figures to keep your existing problems.
Whilst the migration is running, product development quietly stops. Every new feature has to land in two places. Your team gets stuck reconciling. By the time migration finishes, six months of competitive momentum is gone.
Why it fails: The migration approach has to keep your team shipping. Otherwise the migration costs you the runway it was meant to save.
How we’re different
The Bubble app shows us what your product does today. The code app we ship is designed around what the product needs to do tomorrow - not around the abstractions Bubble forced you into. Discovery is where we question every corner of the existing data model and pick what’s worth carrying forward.
Every phase has a clear deliverable you can review before the next one starts. No black-box milestones, no surprise pivots.
We audit your live Bubble app end-to-end: every Data Type, workflow, option set, integration, page, and reusable element. We catalogue what each thing does, where it’s used, and what depends on what.
You walk away with
A complete inventory + flagged oddities. You keep these docs even if you don’t proceed.
We design the target system: Postgres schema (with Drizzle ORM as source of truth), row-level security policies, auth model, permission abstractions, and async/scheduled-job strategy. We don’t carbon-copy Bubble - we question the data model first.
You walk away with
Schema, RLS design, auth & permissions blueprint, all reviewable before a line of app code.
We provision the new stack in a single sitting: Supabase project, Vercel deployment, Trigger.dev workers, GitHub Actions, secrets management, observability. Boring infrastructure done right so nothing surprises us later.
You walk away with
Working environments (staging + prod), CI/CD pipeline, secrets catalogue.
We rebuild your app one workflow at a time. Each slice is a complete vertical: schema + RLS + server logic + UI + tests. Your Bubble app stays live the whole time. Users notice nothing.
You walk away with
Production-ready features in the new app, parallel-running with Bubble.
Idempotent, chunked, resumable imports of every Data Type from Bubble to Postgres - with dead-letter queues for edge cases. We’ve thought through your sequence dependencies, your soft-deletes, your option-set foreign keys.
You walk away with
All historical data in the new system, with reconciliation reports.
DNS switches over. Bubble app becomes read-only. We stay on for the first month minimum to monitor, fix the surprises, and hand over a system your team can own. Ongoing partnership available.
You walk away with
Live new app, sunset Bubble app, monitoring in place, documentation handed over.
Most agencies quote you a 9-month rebuild, take your money, then disappear into a black box. By month seven they tell you the scope grew. Your Bubble app is still your live app.
We work in vertical slices instead. Each slice is a real, shippable feature in the new codebase. Your Bubble app stays live. Users see nothing change until we flip the switch on each slice. If you ever want to stop, you stop - and what we’ve built is still production-ready.
Bubble app stays live until each slice is fully cutover and verified.
Audit docs, schema design, RLS blueprint - yours even if you walk away.
You talk straight to the person writing your code. No PMs, no account managers, no slide decks.
Each phase is priced upfront. No T&M overruns, no surprise invoices for meetings.
Stack varies by what your product actually needs - we pick the right tool, not the trendy one. For most Bubble migrations, though, this is where we land.
App-Router frontend with server components, server actions, and built-in optimisation. Replaces Bubble’s editor with code you and your future engineers can hire for.
Global edge deployment, preview environments per branch, instant rollbacks. Your hosting becomes infrastructure, not a vendor lock-in.
Postgres + auth + storage + realtime. Real database with row-level security policies you control - the data model is no longer hidden behind a UI.
Async, scheduled, and retryable jobs - the real replacement for Bubble’s scheduled workflows. Long-running tasks, customer comms, money movement.
A real codebase your team owns - not another vendor relationship.
Will Driscoll
Founder & Lead Engineer
ex-Airdev · Primary dev partner on Ohana
I’ve been inside the Bubble ecosystem for years - first shipping Canvas apps at Airdev, then as the primary development partner on Ohana, a Stripe Connect marketplace on track for $60M in 2026.
I’ve seen the migration patterns that work, and the ones that quietly break businesses. AppSavvy is built around the ones that work. We don’t do big-bang rewrites. We don’t bolt external backends onto Bubble. We don’t carbon-copy the data model.
We leave Bubble cleanly - without stopping your business in the process.
Sometimes a refactor wins. Sometimes a backend extension alongside Bubble is the move. Sometimes you’re three months from a fundraise and migration is the wrong fight to pick right now.
Our discovery phase tells you honestly which one you are. If migration is the wrong call, we’ll say so - and you keep the audit docs we produced. We’d rather lose a project than ship you the wrong one.
30-minute discovery call. We’ll look at your Bubble app together and tell you - honestly - what migration would actually take, what it would cost, and whether it’s the right move right now.
No NDA needed. No slide decks. No PM in the meeting.
