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Luke is a professional frontend engineer building a portfolio of indie apps and developer tools. Casey is an ex Google/Firebase backend engineer breaking into indie app development with the viral sports trivia app "Dribble Game Trivia". Each episode we bring on a new guest from the Build In Public community to learn from their bootstrap journey! We cover everything from TikTok content strategies to ASO to building an algorithmic newsfeed on serverless SAAS. Join us on our journey and learn along with us as we bootstrap and ship our way to financial freedom with Flutter and friends!
Hey all! Sorry for the long gap between episodes. This is a quick update letting you know what Luke and I are planning for the pod.
Here's the TLDR:
We're taking a long break while I move out to New York and take a Senior Flutter Engineer position with Betterment, but we'll be back next month. We're going to be coming back in the same feed (so stay subscribed!) but with a rebrand and production value (better audio quality and more!)
Luke challenged himself to build an app for his young nieces over a family reunion. Hear about what he built and how it was so addicting his extended family dubbed it "Luke's Crack App"!
This episode is a Luke update where he talks about the Flutter WASM based PWAs (Progressive Web App) he's been building to "vibe check" ideas that come to him and the new ultra-lightweight analytics service he built (and has now published)!
Check out the projects mentioned:
Luke and I talk to Mike Jones (AKA CodingMarine) about his set of outdoors focused Flutter apps!
https://dontforgetthespoon.com/
Luke walks through his methodology for analyzing successful consumer apps and applies to the viral multi-million ARR "Umax" looks maxing app!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/umax-become-hot/id6471026798
We interviewed Matan Lurey-and Engineer working on Impeller on the Flutter team!
We talked to him about the decisions and underlying mechanics driving Flutter, the current state of Flutter shader development, what makes Flutter feel more or less "native", and more!
Links:
https://x.com/algebrandon (Flutter 3D shader demos)
https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/design/graphics/fragment-shaders
On today's episode, we bring on Sebastian and talk about his indie journey from new grad to six figure ARR with HabitKit!
Links:
Luke and Casey discuss The Dart/Flutter package ecosystem and Flutter's seeming lack of top down leadership or publicly communicated vision.
Flutter Packages:
https://pub.dev/packages/hotspot
https://pub.dev/packages/salomon_bottom_bar
https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_gutter
Kevmoo's Pure Drat Listenable/ValueNotifier initiative:
Casey and Luke swap their software engineering interview stories!
Luke and I discuss why and how engineers are so bad at predicting user behavior and share some counterintuitive tips and tricks we've learned for predicting user behavior and making money off indie apps!
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
Follow Scamanda on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
