Airdev helps companies save money and provide a better experience by turning their existing Excel spreadsheets into powerful and scalable web applications.
sPreadsheet or web app
Spreadsheets often power many parts of businesses but there are several use cases when converting it into a custom web app makes sense:
Control access to parts of your data and app and what they can do with it.
Give multiple users with different skill levels better experience and increase productivity.
Allow multiple users to work on the same data simultaneously with change logs and undo.
Maintain millions of records while being able to access and query your data quickly and efficiently.
Integrate your application with any external service. Use their data within your application or send them data as needed
Build any logic or algorithm while reducing the chance of errors and unpredictable outcomes.
Validate data quality in real-time whenever new records are created or modified ensures your data is clean and usable.
Create complex data structures designed and optimized for how you make use of your data.
airdev + Bubble
Creating custom software used to be out of reach for many due to its complexity and cost. But with the arrival of no-code platforms like Bubble.io and a new breed of software developers like Airdev, that math has changed.
Using the Bubble framework, we can quickly build any UI, any logic, and integrate with any external service to 10x the power of your spreadsheet, saving you time, money, and providing your stakeholders with a better experience.
Bubble is a visual programming language with the benefits of no-code and code. 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 platform for building anything that you need.
OUR PROCESS
Our process takes lean to the next level, enabling startups and enterprises to get to market quickly to validate and learn.
Our specialists will work with you to understand your business goals and what you want to accomplish with your custom app. With the support of our product team behind them, we start designing a roadmap to get you where you want to go.
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.
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.
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 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.
No product is complete after the initial build — your app must evolve in response to user feedback. 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.
AIRDEV Vs. TRADITIONAL DEV
With better outcomes on a dramatically shorter timeline, Airdev helps startups and enterprises make tech an unfair advantage.
Client success stories
Airdev has helped our Bay Area region to ditch the spreadsheets in order to better support our teachers. In just one month, we built an internal CRM system to fit our unique data needs and allow coaches to add and review notes on the go.
We created an internal operating system for Teach For America to manage teacher training, staffing, and support across the 2-year corps year experience.
We use Airtable as our central database for a number of different apps built on multiple platforms, but it couldn’t handle the experience we wanted to create for our coaching app. Airdev built us a custom app that syncs with Airtable, so we have the best of both worlds.
We helped MedSchoolCoach utilize Airtable to offer personalized guidance to thousands of successful medical school applicants.
In just two weeks, Airdev created an elegantly streamlined version of our previous gig management platform, built on top of our Salesforce data. The result became an instant hit with our network of linguists, while dramatically reducing the time we spend on ongoing maintenance.
We helped Cadence reduce stress and cost by connecting Salesforce data to a custom gig portal for thousands of expert translators.
We pride ourselves on going the extra mile, and having to rely on developers to deliver was incredibly stressful to us in the past. Taking a project like this that used to take us 6 months, and being able to launch in 6 weeks has been invaluable to us and our clients.
We relaunched HP for Education to help 30k schools upgrade equipment and access support services through a provider marketplace.
Airdev has built a system that's allowed us to scale to hundreds of millions of dollars of loans per year, with tens of thousands of reps. Without them we wouldn't have been able to develop that core product nearly as quickly as we have.
We built a multi-sided custom CRM solution to help Dividend Finance book hundreds of millions in loans for solar panels each year.
FAQ
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:
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!
