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abelsm

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    Comment #49190667

    thanks! we wanted to put it out there and see if there's interest before investing more time in polishing it. it's been really helpful to see the discussion here.

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    Comment #49190203

    Cofounder of FlutterFlow here. Not atm, as it started as an internal project. But it's something we're considering.

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    Comment #48034026

    Awesome video. It's interesting, informative, and entertaining. Founders I talk to that are doing hardware, broadly speaking, say it's a competitive advantage as it's not as crowde…

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    Comment #47706131

    The breach of trust here, which is hard to imagine isn't intentional, is enough reason alone to stop using Vercel, and uninstall the plugin. That part is easy. Most of these agents…

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    Comment #45130638

    Hi HN, I’m one of the founders of FlutterFlow (YC W21). We launched Dreamflow earlier this year. What it is: Dreamflow generates a Flutter app from a prompt, then lets you keep wor…

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    FlutterFlow (YC W21) Is Hiring

    We're looking for people who are passionate about ML and DevTools and can get behind our mission: to help the world build great products. FlutterFlow ( https://flutterflow.io ) is …

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    Comment #29634662

    Agreed, making it more natural to create apps in a way that follows Flutter best practices is a desirable end goal. There's so much to improve, it's exciting :-)

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    Comment #29634476

    It's not quite an apples-to-apples comparison, but the memory use of FlutterFlow is comparable to WebFlow. Our landing page is built using WebFlow, and I compared memory use of tha…

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    Comment #29632436

    thank you!

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    Comment #29631214

    Thanks for the suggestions! Yes, there's definitely room for improvement with the generated code ... I think the padding -> SizedBox conversion at least in some cases (only when ma…

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    Comment #29631099

    There were a lot of issues with custom widgets when we first launched the feature, we've deployed several fixes since then. But there's still more to do on our end to make it clear…

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    Comment #29631065

    yes, we've been writing a lot of Dart over the last couple of years and also enjoy it quite a lot. interested in hearing what issues GP faced.

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    Comment #29630578

    The reasons we prioritized Firebase is because it works really well with Flutter and was also what most of our early users preferred. FlutterFlow itself is in fact a Flutter+Fireba…

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    Comment #29630225

    Yep, you can push the latest changes directly to Github. We always use a specific branch "flutterflow". Users can then merge in changes, as long as the changes on the main branch a…

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    Comment #29630065

    There are 3 ways you can use custom code for business logic: - Custom Functions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbNtmue0ZZo - Custom Widgets: https://community.flutterflow.io/c/wh…

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    Comment #29630006

    Thanks! We're gonna work hard to get it to a place where the set up you love and are used to is also available in FF (or vice versa), and that you get the best of both worlds.

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    Comment #29629725

    We're allow-listing domains for any educational institutions that's not on our list. Thanks for sending that link, we'll take a look!

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    Comment #29629711

    Thanks for your feedback! The reason we don't have this yet is only because we're a small team, but we're growing and will definitely have NGO/non-profit discounts!

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    Comment #29629608

    Re: AppGyver, one big difference is the ability to generate clean code that can be exported. And there's also Flutter, which we think is the framework that will finally make low-co…

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    Comment #29629083

    Great to hear from an early access user, thanks so much and very glad you enjoyed the experience! Wish you the best of luck as well

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    Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually

    Hey HN! It’s Abel and Alex here to share what we’ve been working on for just over a year: FlutterFlow ( https://flutterflow.io ). It’s like WebFlow, but for Flutter. Flutter is an …

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    Comment #27242281

    Yes, we plan on supporting desktop. Right now you can actually customize the canvas size. Just click on the canvas size to modify it: https://twitter.com/flutterflow/status/1389695…