Case Study: Speech Blubs achieves faster, simpler app scaling with DigitalOcean

How Blub Blub Fueled the Expansion of Their Speech Therapy App with DigitalOcean's App Platform

Speech Blubs, the speech therapy app created by Blub Blub, needed a more affordable and simpler way to manage cloud infrastructure as its user base grew beyond 100,000 subscribers. The small team was frustrated with Heroku’s rising costs and limited flexibility, and wanted a platform that would make deployment and infrastructure management easier. DigitalOcean’s App Platform was selected to help them scale without adding operational complexity.

DigitalOcean implemented App Platform along with Droplets and Managed Databases to streamline deployments, improve monitoring, and support Redis hosting. The result was a much faster setup—one day versus several days on AWS—plus lower costs than Heroku, better scalability, and more time for the team to focus on product development. DigitalOcean’s support also resolved a bug within a day, helping Speech Blubs improve agility, feature delivery, and overall growth.

Speech Blubs

Marko Širec

Lead Backend Engineer