He should have kept his day job. What is going on with these "check in" icons on the globe? Is this just a site for people to say they're lonely? How will he monetize this site?
Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social audio app with Flutter
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#42Cool concept, I think it's a good mission & target, too many platforms are just content farms or for keeping up appearances.
And awesome to see what you're doing with Flutter! Looks like Map support has come a long way. Loaded well for me on desktop.
UX feedback - definitely want some more onboarding for the web experience (as others have mentioned), and maybe a smoother intro into the big space. The map view is really cool, good for generating interest, but also a bit overwhelming (where to start?).
Looks like you're onto something.
Re: Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social audio app with Flutter
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That is great to hear! Sometimes it is hit-or-miss. I think it might have to do something with the AWS backend that sometimes fail to connect instantly. We plan to improve on this for next iterations.
I've built a couple of Flutter apps and one of them was Flutter web. At the time (from 2020-2022), Flutter web definitely wasn't mature enough. It was a challenge and last time I checked (earlier 2023) there were some serious issues. However your app seems to load very quickly and I can't see any glaring performance issues, and that leads me to think that maybe Flutter web has improved significantly in the last year.…
If you still have the source code to those apps (ie not work related ones), you should update to the latest master and try the Flutter web performance again, especially adding WASM [0]. It might be interesting to see just how fast it is now.