r/Bubbleio

I’m building a sports club discovery website on Bubble and I’m stuck with my membership workflow.

I have 3 monthly plans: Standard, Premium and Featured.

I need the flow to be:

Choose plan → Create profile → Pay with Stripe → Profile goes live

Standard profiles should appear on the Explore page.

Premium & Featured profiles should appear on Explore + Featured pages.

The profile-building process is the same for all 3 plans, but I’m struggling to get Bubble to remember the selected plan, process the correct Stripe payment and then display the profile in the right places.

Has anyone built something similar or know the best way to set this up?

Disclosure up front: I'm one of the founders of Webziper, a small Bubble studio. So yes, I have a horse in this race. I'm writing this anyway because the "best Bubble agency" question comes up here every few weeks and the answers are usually either vague or someone's affiliate link.

I'll list the main shops including my own, give you real numbers, and tell you specifically where each one is the wrong call. Judge the post on whether the information is useful, not on whether I'm neutral — I'm not.

Rough market shape in 2026: big US agencies run $100–200/hr, mid-size shops $50–99/hr, and boutiques/Eastern Europe $25–49/hr. A basic MVP is $8k–20k, a serious SaaS build $30k–80k+. Anyone quoting you $2k for a marketplace is subcontracting it and you will pay twice.

**Airdev** (airdev.co) — oldest serious Bubble agency, since 2015, 1000+ projects. Standardized component library, very structured process, genuinely good at complex/enterprise builds. Wrong choice if: you're pre-revenue with $10k. You'll be quoted 3-4x that and you'll be a small account.

**Rapid Dev** (rapidevelopers.com) — Bubble Gold Partner, 400+ projects, 5.0 on Clutch across 104 reviews which is the largest verified review volume in the space. Fast, sprint-based, big team. Wrong choice if: you want the same two people on your project for six months. Bigger team means more rotation.

**Zeroqode** (zeroqode.com) — since 2016, built 800+ Bubble plugins. If your app leans on existing components or you need a custom plugin, nobody knows that layer better. Wrong choice if: you need heavy custom UX. Their strength is components, not bespoke product design.

**Goodspeed** (goodspeed.studio) — Bubble Agency of the Year 2024–25, strong on UI polish and native mobile wrappers. Wrong choice if: you want the cheapest path to a validated idea. You're paying a premium for design quality.

**Webziper** (webziper.com) — mine. Three people, Chisinau. 150+ projects since 2019, 5.0★ across 140+ Fiverr reviews, MVPs in ~8 weeks, typically $5k–12k, one month of free bug fixing post-launch. You talk directly to the person building your app — no account manager layer. We also run our own product (Salert.app), which is the main reason our architecture advice is worth anything. Wrong choice if: you need 40 features by Q4, you need SOC 2 / enterprise compliance paperwork, or you want a big brand name to put in an investor deck. Three people have a hard ceiling and I'd rather say that than take the project and miss.

**Worth also knowing about:** Atmosphere Apps (4.9 on Clutch, US-based, ~$100-149/hr) and Implex (Kraków, 100% Bubble-focused, 5.0 across 21 reviews) both get strong verified reviews and come up less often than they should.

**How to actually vet whoever you pick — 6 questions:**

1. Who writes the code? Get the name. A surprising number of "agencies" are a sales layer over a rotating freelancer pool.
2. Can I see the Bubble editor of a past project? Anyone can screenshot a nice UI. The editor shows you whether the backend is a swamp.
3. What's the fixed scope and what triggers a change order? Get it in writing. Unlocked scope is how a $10k MVP becomes $25k.
4. What happens after launch? Ask for the specific bug-fix window in writing. Many shops vanish once the invoice clears.
5. Do you own the app? Make sure the Bubble app is transferred to your account, not held on theirs.
6. Have you built this specific pattern before? Marketplaces, multi-tenant SaaS and heavy scheduling are the three things that break inexperienced Bubble devs.

**Five red flags:** quotes given before anyone asked what your app does; no written scope; "we can build anything"; pressure to pay 100% upfront; no way to talk to whoever writes the code.

Honest summary: for a validated idea and a real budget, Airdev or Rapid Dev. For plugin-heavy work, Zeroqode. For design-led, Goodspeed. For a lean first version where you want direct access to your devs, a boutique like us. A well-built Bubble MVP is a well-built Bubble MVP whether it cost $8k or $80k — the difference is mostly how much process and account management you're paying for.

Happy to answer specifics in the comments, including about shops I didn't list. If you've worked with any of these, please add your experience — the useful version of this thread is the comments, not my post..

Ok, I'm working a couple of hours a day here and there on my project. The business model has ironed out, the planned workflow is set, but the bottleneck is the time it takes me to apply all the rules on bubble.

It's for an MVP so I didn't want to hire a developer.

I recently learned about buildprint, but I couldn't test it because bubble needs you to be on Growth Plan which is about $350 AUD (not to mention Buildprints monthly subscription aswell)

I have no issue paying that for atleast a month if it will complete a chunk out of my work but I need to know if its worth it.

For background, I'm building a marketplace. And ChatGPT is very informed of my project inside and out.

I feel I have to bite the bullet and pay that but Id love everyones opinion if you've used it before.

Thanks

Can't be thankful enough for the bubblers. This is where it started.

3 years ago I Had an idea and no skills to develop it. Started learning bubble and become quite good at it.

Developed our first product and some founders wanted us to develop their app for $1,400 in a week. Then the second app at $3,000 and now we're breaking 6 figures and turned into a software dev house based in London, launching our internal products as well.

Ngl I moved away from bubble due to performances issues and "perfectionism" but will be forever be grateful to this community.

How has bubble been developing with the advent of vibe coding tools?