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How TheHair.App Used Airdev’s Freelance Bubble Talent to Maintain & Integrate AI Features on a Budget

In 2023, TheHair.App founder Richard Kavanagh needed a way to integrate critical new AI features in his existing product at a time when he also needed to scale back costs.

“Instead of chasing investment, I decided to focus on creating a great product that the market would love, and grow revenue organically from subscriptions. But doing this meant big cost cutbacks, including team downsizing.” - Kavanagh
Airdev •

What is Bubble.io? FAQs to Building a Bubble App for Beginners

Bubble.io is a visual programming platform designed for creating software without needing to write traditional code. It allows users to build responsive web and mobile apps (of any kind) with dynamic databases and advanced features using graphics and images to express computing logic. Bubble’s mission is to bridge the knowledge gap for non-engineers by providing a cost-effective solution to build apps without requiring coding skills.But when it comes to building an app, how does Bubble stack up...
Airdev •

What can you do with Bubble.io? Exploring its pros, cons, capacity & features

Startup and business owners often worry that using the no-code tool Bubble to build a web app might limit customization, flexibility, and scalability. They worry that Bubble.io won't adapt well to their specific needs or handle growth and complex functions as effectively as traditional coding, potentially causing issues in development and hindering performance as the business grows.These are legitimate concerns. No one wants to hit a point where their platform's capabilities fall short of their...
Airdev •

How a Buyer-First Ticket Marketplace Startup Quickly Secured $1.1M in Funding with Bubble.io

When he was just a teenager running his first business buying and selling sneakers, Jason Shatsky realized there was a much better way to transact and exchange in-demand goods with a limited quantity. This gave him an idea.

What if there was an event ticketing platform that reversed the traditional seller-first marketplace experience, instead allowing fans to submit bids for tickets to an event at their preferred price and seating location and ticket sellers to accept these requests? That’s the concept behind TicketRev, a live event ticketing marketplace platform that helps fans find cheaper tickets to live events and sellers to liquidate unsold inventory.
Airdev •

How to Integrate AI Into Your No-Code Bubble.io App

If you're wondering how to build an AI-powered app with Bubble.io, you're not alone. With the rise of generative AI technology like ChatGPT (which can create text, images, music, etc. based on simple non-technical prompts), businesses of all sizes are rushing to integrate AI into their operations for data analysis, customer engagement, and process automation. Additionally, new AI-powered startups and products are launching everyday to meet the demand for tools that put AI to work for businesses....
Airdev •

How to Know Which Features To Launch With When Building an App Without Code

When you have an idea to build an app without code, it’s natural to imagine your product in its completed future state, with a robust set of features and massive user base. Having imagined this vision for some time, it can be tempting to set out to build that exact product from day one.The issue with this approach is that the long-term vision for the product is rarely the same thing as the version you should launch with. You may find that a few features that took a lot of time and money to compl...
Beam •

7 Essential Resources to Support Financially Vulnerable Students

Only 21% of low-income, first-generation college students earn a college degree within 6 years of enrolling in school, according to a 2019 report. ‍One reason behind this sobering fact? There’s a strong correlation between income and academic performance. Research shows that a student’s ability to pay for the total cost of college — including basic living expenses, textbooks, lab fees, housing deposits, and other non-tuition-related costs — is directly connected to their ability to complete thei...
Beam •

5 Challenges of First-Generation College Students

There’s a lot to consider when it comes to going to college, from choosing the right major to figuring out how to balance schoolwork with a social life. But for first-generation students, navigating the college experience can be even more complicated. First-generation college students, or students whose parents have not earned a four-year degree, face unique financial and cultural challenges that make the college experience even more difficult. This puts them into a position where they're far le...
Collegis Education •

Making Higher Ed's Back Office More Efficient & Student-Centric: A Guide to Process Automation

Today's student expects interactions with your institution to be accessible 24/7 and with fast replies. Unfortunately, these types of interactions are not the norm in higher education. Small repetitive, manual tasks and processes still take up a lot of time in the day for staff and faculty, and students often receive answers and responses to important questions and decisions days later – or sometimes not at all.
Collegis Education •

Deploying Higher Ed COVID-19 Relief Funding to Strengthen the Institution

In December 2020 and March 2021, Congress passed two additional major COVID-19 relief bills, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA) and the American Rescue Plan (ARP). Included in both bills is significant funding (approximately $62B) earmarked for higher ed institutions through the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds (HEERF).
Similar to the CARES Act passed in the spring of 2020, most of the recent higher ed COVID-19 relief funds will go to public and n...