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Bubble to code migration

Bubble got you here.
Own the code that comes next.

Fixed-price migrations from Bubble to Next.js and Postgres. Your data, your users and your logic come with you. Your Bubble bill doesn’t.

Book a migration audit

Migration signal

Signs you may have outgrown Bubble.

If two or more sound familiar, it’s worth looking at the numbers.

  1. 01

    Costs scale faster than users

    Your Bubble bill keeps growing, even when your user base doesn’t.

  2. 02

    Performance is becoming a problem

    Key pages are slow, and optimizations only buy you so much.

  3. 03

    Bubble is shaping your roadmap

    Features get simplified, postponed or dropped because of platform limitations.

  4. 04

    Your stack is becoming a concern

    Hiring, due diligence or enterprise requirements are putting your architecture under scrutiny.

  5. 05

    Your margins depend on Bubble

    A pricing or workload change can materially affect your costs overnight.

After Bubble

What changes when you own the code

It’s fully yours.

Every line lives in your GitHub. No platform owns the code or changes the rules.

It costs less.

Hosting drops from thousands a month to tens or hundreds, with far more control.

Built to be open.

Any capable developer can maintain, improve or extend the product without depending on one platform.

All is possible.

Faster pages, better SEO, any integration and the freedom to build what your roadmap needs.

Process

How it works

  1. 01

    Audit

    5 days · $1,200

    I review your app, data and workflows, then give you a clear recommendation: migrate now, later, or stay on Bubble.

    If moving makes sense, you’ll get a fixed price and timeline. The audit is fully credited if you migrate within 30 days.

  2. 02

    Migration

    Fixed price

    Weekly demos so you see progress, not promises. Before anything goes live, the new app runs in staging with your real data, side by side with Bubble.

  3. 03

    Cutover + 30 days

    A planned switch in an off-peak window. Your users move over, and I stay on for a month to handle anything that comes up.

  4. 04

    Care Plan

    Optional

    Keep going with maintenance or ongoing development once you’re live.

Pricing

Fixed price.
No hourly billing.

Every migration is fixed price, agreed after the audit. No hourly billing, no surprises.

Audit$1,200

5 days

Stay-or-go recommendation, target architecture and a fixed quote. Credited to your migration.

Core

from $7,500

3–5 weeks

Internal tools and focused apps with a small data model and few integrations.

Growth

from $15,000

6–9 weeks

SaaS products with user roles, billing and multiple integrations.

Scale

let’s talk

2 weeks cycles

Marketplaces, multi-tenant platforms, payments between users.

Every migration includes

Code in your repo from day one · data and user migration · staging with real data · planned cutover · 30 days of support.

Payment: 50% on signing, 25% on staging approval, 25% on cutover.

Care Plans.

Maintain

$900/mo

8 hours a month

Bug fixes, updates, monitoring and up to 8 hours of small changes.

Evolve

$2,800/mo

25 hours a month

Ongoing development, up to 25 hours a month.

I take on a limited number of migrations each quarter so every project gets my full attention.

Why Nordlabs

Talk to the person building it.

No account managers, no handoffs, no junior team behind a senior pitch.

I’ve spent years building production apps in Bubble and know the platform inside out, including the shortcuts, workarounds and technical debt that tend to accumulate over time. I’ve also migrated multiple Bubble apps to code, from initial audit through cutover. I know what should be rebuilt, what should be simplified, and what shouldn’t make the move.

A migration is the one moment you get to rethink your product without starting over. I treat it that way: not just copying what your app does, but making sure it does what it should.

Access & ownership

Your app stays in your hands.

No access needed

Your first call requires no access to your app, data or accounts.

Read-only by default

For the audit, I only need read-only editor access. NDA available on request.

You own everything

Every repo, database and account belongs to you from day one.

FAQ

Questions before you move

Will my users have to reset their passwords?

Bubble doesn’t export password hashes, so every user signs in once with a magic link or a reset email. We plan the message and the timing so it feels like an upgrade, not a disruption.

Will there be downtime?

A planned window of a few hours at most, during your quietest time.

Can I keep building in Bubble during the migration?

Yes. We only freeze changes for a short period before cutover.

What stack do you migrate to?

Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres on Supabase, hosted on Vercel. It’s modern, widely known and cheap to run. If your app needs something different, the audit will say so.

What happens to my data?

All of it moves: records, files and users. We rehearse the migration in staging with your real data before the final switch.

Do I need a developer after the migration?

No. The Care Plan covers maintenance and new features. If you hire your own team later, I’ll hand everything over properly.

What if the audit says I shouldn’t migrate?

Then you’ve spent $1,200 to avoid spending $15,000 too early, and you keep the plan for when the time comes.

Migration audit

Thinking about leaving Bubble?

Get a clear view of your current costs, technical debt, and what a move to code would actually involve.

Limited migration slots this quarter.