What if our Bubble app has undocumented edge cases?

It almost certainly does. Not Quite Unicorns looks for hidden workflows, privacy rules, plugin integrations, fragile logic, and the parts that usually derail Bubble migrations.

Do we have to migrate everything at once?

No. The migration should be sequenced around revenue-critical and operations-critical flows so the live Bubble app keeps running while the new system is built, tested, and rolled out carefully.

Bubble got you to revenue.
Now you want a clear path to code.

We help serious Bubble teams move off Bubble without risking their business with a fragile migration.

Migrate to code

Gold Bubble Partner

Bad migrations break businesses in predictable ways.

What goes wrong

Corrupted data

Bad migrations corrupt data by losing relationships, and leave your team reconciling the mess by hand.

Bugs in critical workflows

Your complex Bubble app logic is difficult to replicate in code, and bugs leak into critical workflows that affect paying users and cause data integrity issues.

Customer disruption

When customers have to sit in a transition period of the app being slow, buggy, and no new features being released, the migration becomes their problem too.

Product development stalls

Migration takes much longer than you expect, and product development stalls whilst you're migrating, allowing your competitors to attract your customers.

What causes it

Most Bubble app migrations fail.

Writing code is easy, but performing a full migration on an app that is in production without disrupting users is difficult. Most apps take the wrong path.

External backends kill Bubble apps

Moving logic or data to Xano, Supabase, or Firebase while Bubble stays as the frontend creates a data boundary where bugs occur. You get stuck with years of half-migrated complexity, whilst not reducing your dependency on Bubble at all.

Rewrite and switch over

A full rebuild with one launch day for every customer forces the business onto a cliff edge. Development pauses, data issues all land at once, and the risk falls onto customers.

Copy Bubble 1:1

A like-for-like rebuild can copy the same data model, technical debt, and old product assumptions into code. By just asking Claude Code to migrate each data type, you are simply shifting your technical debt to code, rather than resolving it, and will face the same issues as you do on Bubble.

You need a team that understands both sides.

Migrating from Bubble requires a team that understands both Bubble and code, that has done it before.

Gold Bubble Partner Agency

We know every quirk of Bubble and see where migrations fail, which matters before you even start writing code.

300+ app audits completed

We have audited and untangled hundreds of Bubble apps, including Bubble's own Bubble apps, so we know where hidden logic and data traps usually live.

Largest Bubble apps in ecosystem

The largest and most complex Bubble apps in the ecosystem work with Not Quite Unicorns. We've helped migrate apps with 100k+ users, $20 mil+ funding, without killing their business in the process.

Move to code without stopping the business.

The only way to migrate is to understand the app, make new architecture decisions, and migrate in stages whilst validating data migration as you go along, keeping the Bubble app running while it happens.

Understand what exists
We identify the product features and behaviour that the migration has to account for.
Re-architect what should change
We design the new codebase based on what your product is now, not what it was when it started. We architect how to effectively order the migration for the lowest risk and fastest result.
Migrate and validate in stages
The Bubble app keeps running unchanged while the new system is built, tested, and rolled out carefully. Customers choose when to switch to the new version, so they aren't forced onto a new platform at an inconvenient moment.

Reputation

Reputation is everything, and ours is flawless

We've built an exceptional reputation among developers and clients for quality and care.

Gold Bubble Partner

A note from our founder

We have spent years working inside the most complex Bubble apps in the ecosystem. Many were scaling well. Some were carrying years of workarounds and technical debt as the product changed. Some came to us mid-migration after their existing team got stuck and development ground to a halt.

The migrations that go wrong usually make the same mistake. They treat the Bubble app like a set of screens to copy, not a business-critical system that needs to be understood and rebuilt right.

That is why we do this carefully. Leaving Bubble is the easy part of the job. The real goal is to avoid breaking the business and end up with a codebase your team can actually build on, rather than just moving your technical debt from Bubble to code.

George Collier, Founder, Not Quite Unicorns

The questions worth answering before you move.

No. The approach is to keep the Bubble app live while the migration is planned and built in stages. Some work may need sequencing, but the business cannot sit still for months.

Get the plan before you start the migration.

Apply through a short intake. If there is a fit, we will use the strategy call to understand the app, talk through the risks, and map the next sensible step.