Loaner laptops with profiles
Pre-baked OS profiles mirror our lab machines so you are not debugging display scaling on night one.
Low-code / no-code studio
312
Builder-facing desks hosted since 2019 across Bubble, Glide, Retool, Power Pages, and adjacent kits—each with published prerequisites, not hidden upsells.
Browse cohort catalog
Internal feedback from the last twelve exits averaged 9.1 / 10 on clarity of expectations.
38
Published cohort recipes
7.5
Median weekly hours
EN + JP
Mentor languages
5
Cities with pop-up desks
41%
Repeat enrollment (2025)
Week-by-week cadence
Ink, then ink again
Five beats repeat each cohort—intentionally uneven pacing so teams experience both sprint bursts and quiet documentation days.
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01
Surface the awkward questions
Week one collects constraints from finance, support, and the builders who will inherit the work.
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02
Draft ugly flows on purpose
Week two rewards messy diagrams; polish is banned until mentors sign the data glossary.
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03
Instrument with receipts
Week three pairs telemetry labels with rollback scripts so dashboards survive contact with ops.
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04
Ship to a skeptic
Week four assigns each team a friendly critic outside their org chart for a live critique.
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05
Archive the truth
Week five packages decisions in Markdown bundles that travel without the original facilitators.
Catalog
Filter the stack, not the ambition
Eight active builds spanning low-code and no-code app building. Filters respect how you actually work—not generic “difficulty” sliders.
Hybrid mentor
Bubble Shipyard — interfaces that behave
Prototype customer flows with Bubble, wire validation tables in Airtable, and route approvals through lightweight Slack automations.
Takarazuka hybrid
Async mentor
Glide Field Kit — data-first mobile sheets
Spin up Glide apps tied to curated Sheets, then attach Zapier paths only where spreadsheet logic would become brittle.
Remote-first
Sprint mentor
Softr Access Lab — gated experiences
Layer Softr portals on Notion data, practice role-aware navigation, and simulate monetized access with Stripe test hooks.
Osaka pop-up week
Hybrid mentor
FlutterFlow Handoff — native polish without Xcode drama
Pair visual layouts in FlutterFlow with tightened Firebase rules and token exports from Figma so engineering can inherit cleanly.
Kobe lab evenings
Sprint mentor
Retool Ops Bridge — honest internal dashboards
Stand up Retool workspaces fed by vetted SQL views, version snippets in Git, and document rollback paths for ops teams.
Remote + Hyogo sync days
Hybrid mentor
Power Pages Governance — portals that legal will sign
Model citizen-facing pages with Dataverse entities, layer Azure AD B2C journeys, and rehearse audit language with mentors.
Takarazuka mornings
Async mentor
Adalo Motion Study — micro-interactions that teach
Prototype tactile UI in Adalo, import restrained Lottie loops, and trigger Make scenarios only when motion maps to real outcomes.
Remote-first
Hybrid mentor
WeWeb Assembly Lite — component libraries that travel
Compose WeWeb blocks backed by REST collections, validate payloads with JSON schema, and package reusable kits for sibling teams.
Kyoto weekend intensive
Tools we lend you
Borrowed kits, returned smarter
Printed glossary pads
Thick paper stacks for entity debates—cheap to replace, impossible to fake “done” with a slick slide.
Sandbox org tenants
Isolated tenants for Retool, Power Pages, and Glide with red-stripe banners so nobody confuses them with prod.
Quiet room hours
Takarazuka studio keeps Tuesday mornings whisper-quiet for documentation sprints.
Desk-side questions
Open full FAQDo you include vendor subscriptions?
No—tuition covers teaching and studio time. You keep billing relationships with Bubble, Glide, Microsoft, etc.
Can managers sit in?
Observers may join two sessions per cohort with advance notice so participants still feel safe experimenting.
What if I miss a synchronized day?
Hybrid tracks publish recordings within 24 hours, but live critique slots are not refundable—plan travel accordingly.
Featured voice
“The Retool Ops Bridge lab forced us to narrate every SQL view aloud; awkward at first, but the Glide Field Kit alumni on our team still reuse that script.”
Leah Horowitz · Operations partner · Minato Logistics
“★★★★★ Verified participant — Bubble Shipyard week five critique uncovered a duplicate state we had been hand-waving.”
Mateo Silva · 5★
“Short version: worth the ferry rides.”
Yui · Kobe
“Client in regional healthcare portal: Power Pages Governance readings were denser than marketing PDFs we are used to, which turned out to be the point.”
Client in regional healthcare portal
Partners & hosts
Hyogo Dev Guild
Kansai UX Salon
Bubble Educators JP
Glide Community Desk
Retool Field Notes
Microsoft Reactor Osaka
Quarterly ink letter
We send syllabus deltas, studio dates, and one uncomfortable question per issue. No countdown clocks, no fake scarcity.
Download the full program PDF
Registration for the June Bubble Shipyard cohort closes 15 May 2026. We limit simultaneous beginners so mentors can read every artifact.