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Build and engage exceptional communities

Create a community as unique as the people and interests in them. Airdev uses the latest in no-code to build custom solutions that help communities thrive and businesses grow.

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Finally, a truly customizable all-in-one platform that’s the perfect home for your community today with enough room and flexibility to accommodate any custom functionality or user experience you want in the future.

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Example build: a community for chess enthusiasts to connect, practice, and learn. This platform integrates with chess engine APIs and includes a feature allowing players to upload games played and book coaching sessions. Coaches can review games, annotate move orders, and give feedback though live video chat with players.

Courses & Coaching

Build a community around knowledge-sharing, personal growth, and achievements.

Common features

  • Beautiful & intuitive UI/UX
  • Custom courses
  • Coaching sessions
  • Assessments & certificates
  • Workspace
  • Gamification

Example build: a social discovery and matching platform for a community of runners to discover routes and connect with others in their city that match their running preferences and goals. The platform included members-only access to club events, merchandise, training, newsletters, and discounts at local retailers.

Memberships

Build a community that offers exclusive members-only content and benefits.

Common features

  • Beautiful & intuitive UI/UX
  • Public & members-only spaces
  • Member profiles
  • Rich engagement
  • Member groups & spaces
  • Events

Example build: an e-learning platform for an online art school focused on community and learning in virtual classrooms. Students and instructors interact in cohorts through text & video, complete coursework, create profiles, upload art galleries, and collaborate on artwork and animations.

Cooperative Learning

Build a community around collaboration, teamwork, and learning with others.

Common features

  • Beautiful & intuitive UI/UX
  • Cohort-based courses
  • Dedicated spaces
  • Team projects & assignments
  • Rich engagement
  • Gamification

Example build: integrating a members portal to an existing retail website while keeping the UI/UX consistent so the transition was seamless. The platform housed all member data, content, and enabled rich member engagement, custom profiles, community support, and exclusive offers and subscriptions.

Brand Development

Build a community to grow your brand and increase customer loyalty and satisfaction.

Common features

  • Brand consistent UI/UX
  • Seamless transition to community site
  • Rich integrations (CMS, CRM, etc.)
  • User generated content & moderation
  • Brand advocacy program
  • Customer community support & feedback

How We do it

The no-code approach means speed & flexibility

We use the most powerful no-code tools like Bubble that allow us to standardize common platform functionalities while custom building the unique features you need.

airdev + Bubble

The partner and platform for growing communities

More Customizable than Wordpress

Bubble is a visual programming language built like a SaaS platform. It's fast, easy-to-use, and inexpensive, but like code, it's highly customizable and is only limited by your imagination. It’s the perfect long-term solution for growing communities.

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Secure, private, and stress-free like SaaS

Never worry about server maintenance, infrastructure, or operations. Keep your community platform ad and distraction free and your member data private and secure. Bubble handles security, deployment, and hosting for you so you can concentrate on what you do best.

Let your community lead the product roadmap

Gone are the days of making feature requests and hoping your platform provider will build it for you. With Airdev and Bubble, you own your platform and can create any experience or feature your community wants.

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OUR PROCESS

White-glove service from launch to growth

Whether you need help with product design, onboarding, data migration, or planning future roadmaps, Airdev has a decade of experience building custom platforms and can help you tackle any challenge you face.

Discovery

Our specialists work with you to understand your community's needs, business model, and current tech stack. Leveraging our experience with past builds, our specialists and product team help you design a community roadmap to get you where you want to go.

1 week
Project Specialist
Requirements doc, roadmap
Free

Scoping

Before we break ground on a build, we create a detailed scope doc with descriptions and wireframes. This allows our team to know exactly what success is, and for you to know exactly what you are getting. Taking the time to get fully aligned enables us to hit every build deadline and ensure you like what you get at the end.

2 weeks
Product Manager
Formal scope doc, wireframes
$1–2k refundable deposit

Development

We build in weekly development sprints, each with a concrete deliverable set beforehand. During a build week, you can relax knowing the team is hard at work building features according to the official scope doc. After each milestone, your PM reviews progress live and collects feedback, so you can make sure everything is going according to plan.

1-6 weeks
PM, Designer, Developer, QA specialist
Fully functional app
Depends on scope

Review

Our 30-day review period is designed to ensure you launch your app with confidence. During this period, you can test every aspect of your app, start onboarding, migrate member data, and flag any issues for us to resolve before launch. When you're ready to launch, we deploy your app and hand over full IP ownership so you are in control.

30 days
PM, Developer
Live app on your domain
Free, included

Support

As communities grow, your platform needs to evolve to meet changing requirements. During this stage, your PM is on call to help you scope out follow-on builds or setup an ongoing support plan to tackle your product roadmap over time. A startup's journey is unpredictable, so we give you control of when and how you use your Airdev team to get there.

Ongoing
PM (+ team as needed)
Iterative launches
Depends on team capacity

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Community success stories

Sahil Mehta, M.D.

As an MD, I know how important it is to have a community of peers and mentors to learn from when applying to med school. Airdev built us a custom platform that allowed us to create the kind of community and features that supported students through the challenging application process.

We helped MedSchoolCoach create a community for pre-med students to connect, share, and get coaching on their entrance exams and medical school applications.

Madeline Dangerfield-Cha

As non-technical, female founders of a mission-driven organization, we got a lot of feedback that our idea was nice but we needed to get a technical co-founder on board to be taken seriously. What AirDev has been able to accomplish in just a week is totally astounding and fits our needs perfectly.

We helped Mon Ami launch an all-in-one community platform for associations and service providers in the Aging & Disabilities Services community.

Eric Scroggins

Airdev helped our Bay Area region ditch the spreadsheet to better support our teachers. In just one month, we built a platform to fit our unique engagement and data needs and allow coaches to add and review notes on the go.

We created a membership platform for Teach For America to manage their member corps, alumni, teacher training events, and act as a social hub for their organization.

Matt Conger

In just two weeks, Airdev created an elegantly streamlined version of our previous internal partner community platform, built on top of our Salesforce data. The result became an instant hit with our network of linguists, while dramatically reducing the time spent on ongoing maintenance.

We built a private community portal for Cadence to house and manage their global network of thousands of expert translators.

FAQ

Common questions

Can I scale my Bubble-built app?

Yes. We always design apps to optimize for scale, based on our understanding of the potential features and user behavior our client envisions. The Bubble technology is built to scale, with the ability to upgrade server capacity as needed (including migrating to a dedicated AWS cluster) to service a growing user base. Bubble provides simple dashboards and notifications to track app capacity usage to help you adjust as needed.

What security features does Bubble have?

Yes. Bubble is built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is itself compliant with certifications such as SOC 2, CSA, ISO 27001, and more. All data behind Bubble apps is stored in the cloud using AWS and is generally hosted on AWS West Region (Oregon, US) which maintains a state-of-the-art security infrastructure. Below are more of Bubble’s security features:

  • AWS: All data behind Bubble apps is stored in the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS), the industry standard. Data is generally hosted on AWS West Region (Oregon, US) which maintains a state-of-the-art security infrastructure.
  • Encryption: Bubble encrypts all traffic to bubble.is over https, and encourages and supports users to use encryption on their own domains. All user passwords are stored salted + encrypted on Bubble's database; other user data is encrypted at rest (Bubble is on AWS RDS). Note: a more technical Bubble audit report is available upon request.
  • SSL: Bubble apps can add SSL encryption to their own domains under any paid Bubble plan. The default bubble domain includes SSL.
  • Dedicated infrastructure: For large and complex apps, Bubble offers plans with the ability to be on a dedicated AWS cluster (as opposed to shared clusters managed by Bubble), which leads to more reliable performance and greater security.
  • External database support: For projects requiring specific database setups (e.g., using a client’s Azure infrastructure, or a HIPAA-compliant data vault), the Bubble application can be set up to interface with a separate database using API calls. This slows development vs. using Bubble’s internal setup.
  • Logs: Every action that changes data in a Bubble app's database is logged, which enables auditing if needed.
  • Privacy rules: Bubble enables role-based privacy rules for apps, which restrict what data is sent from the servers to the user's hardware. This provides an additional layer of security so that data does not fall into the wrong user's hands.
  • Privacy policy: Bubble's privacy policy can be found at bubble.is/terms. Bubble employees do not have access to view customer data, except when necessary to resolve engineering issues with the platform. Access to customer data is restricted based on job role. Access is periodically audited to prevent abuses.

How much will my no-code app cost to build?

We price our projects based on how much effort they are going to take. The key factors are how much functionality you're looking to build, how complex the functionality is, and whether you we use our design framework or implement a custom design. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to get a quote for your project, or read more about Airdev’s approach to pricing here

Who owns the IP rights to my application?

You own the rights to your concept, your application, and all user-generated data created through the app. Airdev retains the ownership of the IP for our predesigned page and element templates that we use across multiple projects. More details on this distinction can be found in the client contract you can review before approving a build.

Is Airdev able to support and extend my application as it grows?

Yes, you can come back to us at any point after the initial build for additional work. You can request ad-hoc updates or sign up for a monthly plan, which will come with a certain amount of team capacity.

What technology will my application be built on?

We build on the latest visual programming framework, Bubble, which allows us to build incredibly quickly and flexibly with minimal technical input. This reduces the cost and headache to our clients, and increases app stability out of the gate. Bubble itself is written in CoffeeScript running on Node.js, uses Postgres databases hosted on AWS, and exposes POST or GET APIs for third-party connections. The app can be easily connected to external APIs and the app's database can be easily exported. Learn more about Bubble here.

What are the limitations? What can you not build?

There are a few categories of tools that we can't help with:
- Fully native mobile apps (e.g. Whatsapp or Uber) - though web-based mobile apps are supported
- Existing products written in code
- Apps that need to work without an internet connection
If you're not sure whether we can do what you need, we would be happy to help you find out!

Book your free Discovery today!