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

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Does this provide access to the Bluetooth API?

We don't have an explicit plugin for Bluetooth yet, but it is possible as you can add custom code inside the platform! That way, you can still use FlutterFlow even if one or two small features you need aren't explicitly supported yet.

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

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This looks awesome, but sadly, your education plan is practically unusable for most of Latin America, where .edu (or .ac) email addresses are very rare. I'm a college student and I can't apply because my university uses our country TLD. I hope you can reconsider this policy and begin using university domain lists [1] instead of just checking for TLDs. [1]: See https://github.com/Hipo/university-domains-list , by exam…

Also, please consider NGO/non-profit pricing. I work as a volunteer on a local NGO working on government transparency. We're severely underfunded, and we'd love to be able to use tools such as these, but it's a pretty difficult cost to bear.

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!

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

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This looks awesome, but sadly, your education plan is practically unusable for most of Latin America, where .edu (or .ac) email addresses are very rare. I'm a college student and I can't apply because my university uses our country TLD. I hope you can reconsider this policy and begin using university domain lists [1] instead of just checking for TLDs. [1]: See https://github.com/Hipo/university-domains-list , by exam…

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!

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, please consider NGO/non-profit pricing. I work as a volunteer on a local NGO working on government transparency. We're severely underfunded, and we'd love to be able to use tools such as these, but it's a pretty difficult cost to bear.

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!

Thank you! I did notice the regional discount, which I really appreciate (not sure if it's based on PPPs, but it's refreshing to see from LatAm).

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

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This looks super exciting. As an Android developer who has not yet built a Flutter app, I'm intrigued if this can be a stepping stone to ramping up on flutter. I looked over the video. It is nice to see a compressed video, but it was still hard to understand what to pay attention to inside a 20 minute video. It would be great if you added callouts to the important moments so people could easily jump to the important…

Highly recommend the appbrewery flutter bootcamp (it’s a video course). It’s $10 and will get you up and running quickly. I have no affiliation with them other than as a happy customer.

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

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I've been using this myself and really enjoying it.

I haven't been focusing too much on building a full app via this, but it is fantastic for building a mock up of what something would look like in Flutter.

It's easier to use and looks more like an app than anything you would build in Balsamic or Figma, since it is basically a drag n' drop Flutter UX. At the end, you get the code used for building it which is awesome for moving from mockup -> the actual app.

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I've been using this myself and really enjoying it. I haven't been focusing too much on building a full app via this, but it is fantastic for building a mock up of what something would look like in Flutter. It's easier to use and looks more like an app than anything you would build in Balsamic or Figma, since it is basically a drag n' drop Flutter UX. At the end, you get the code used for building it which is awesome…

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.

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

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Congrats on your launch. Have you taken any steps to help app developers using this tool make their apps accessible with a screen reader, e.g. prompting them to add text labels to image buttons?

Thanks! Some screen reader features will work out of the box (thanks to the magic of Flutter!), but we're also going to add labels for actions soon (so e.g. buttons will tell the user what it will do). Adding labels to images is another item we could add to the list.
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