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Ship Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Update Episode - Coming Back BETTER, FASTER, STRONGERHey 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!)2024-10-0501 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Luke's Crack AppLuke 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"!
https://kidmoji.app/
https://x.com/luke_pighetti
https://x.com/caseycrogers2024-08-2145 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Is Flutter Web Viable Now? and Luke's PWA "Vibe Check" ProjectsThis 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:
https://struggleswitch.com/
https://unfck.app/
https://lukehog.com/2024-08-0634 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Outdoors Apps with Coding MarineLuke and I talk to Mike Jones (AKA CodingMarine) about his set of outdoors focused Flutter apps!
https://dontforgetthespoon.com/
https://www.dontforgettheweather.com/
https://twitter.com/codingMarine2024-08-0150 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Anatomy of a Banger App (Umax case study)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
https://www.hf0.com/
https://twitter.com/caseycrogers
https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti/2024-07-3048 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!What Feels "Native"? - Interview With Matan on Flutter RenderingWe 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/MatanLurey
https://x.com/algebrandon (Flutter 3D shader demos)
https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/design/graphics/fragment-shaders
2024-07-1957 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Interview With Sebastian, the Indie Hacker Behind HabitKit!On today's episode, we bring on Sebastian and talk about his indie journey from new grad to six figure ARR with HabitKit!
Links:
https://x.com/SebastianRoehl
https://www.habitkit.app/2024-07-1035 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Flutter Leadership and Package EcosystemLuke 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:
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/1494662024-07-0541 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Stories From the Trenches: Software Engineering InterviewsCasey and Luke swap their software engineering interview stories!
https://x.com/luke_pighetti
https://x.com/caseycrogers2024-06-2734 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Counterintuitive App Dev Tricks THEY Don't Want You To KnowLuke 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!
https://x.com/caseycrogers
https://x.com/luke_pighetti2024-06-1340 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Casey Is Selling Out (Dribble Game Pt 3, EU/Acc, and the CEO of RIzz)One month ago we set goals for Casey's viral NBA trivia app "Dribble Game". Through ASO and funnel optimization, we were going to 5x it from $100 daily revenue to $500. Hear how it went!
Spoiler alert: Casey is now job hunting.
We also chat about viral Zoomer social apps, the CEO of RIzz, LevelsIO's "EU acceleration" and more! There's a whole heck of a lot packed into this episode that you won't want to miss.2024-05-2356 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!"eXtreme Go Horse" and Why Experienced Engineers Do Everything Wrong (TM)Luke and I riff on "eXtreme Go Horse", a Brazilian coding style we discovered through a youtube video by the Primeagen.
We discuss how experienced engineers so often engage in "bad" practices that beginner engineers are trained to avoid and share instructive and entertaining stories from our respective careers in tech.
Extreme Go Horse:
https://medium.com/@dekaah/22-axioms-of-the-extreme-go-horse-methodology-xgh-9fa739ab55b4
theprimeagen on Sprints and XGH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p1Q4c3TF3c2024-04-3035 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Luke Solo Ep - Thenics Pro Status updateCasey is traveling back from Europe to the land of the free and the home of the brave so this week's episode is a solo episode with Luke giving a status update on his newly launched calisthenics app "Thenics Pro".
Hear about App Store app pre-orders, ads for ASO and gauging product-market fit.
https://thenicspro.com/
https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti2024-04-1615 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Luke walks away from his six figure salaryLuke talks about: the solar eclipse, quitting his job at tonal, and the "Waffle House" top-of-funnel experiment that he's currently running with this new exercise app, Thenics Pro.
Download Thenics Pro:
https://thenicspro.com/
Follow Luke and Casey on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti
https://twitter.com/caseycrogers2024-04-1142 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Dart Code Metrics - Monetizing Client Side Tools and The Downsides of Open Source SoftwareWe brought on Dmitry Zhifarsky to talk about his premium Dart/Flutter analysis tool "Dart Code Metrics".
We focus on the downsides to open source software and the challenges of monetizing client-side software.
Check out DCM and Dmitry's Twitter here:
https://dcm.dev/
https://twitter.com/_incendial
Follow Luke and Casey on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti
https://twitter.com/caseycrogers2024-04-0537 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Dribble Game and Financial Independence - pt 2.This is a follow up to last week's episode on Dribble Game-Casey's viral NBA trivia app.
This week's episode focuses on ASO and paywall optimization strategies that Casey got from an app audit with Steve Young from the app consultant firm App Masters. Over the next month Casey intends to implement these ideas and 5-10x Dribble Game's revenue. We'll have a followup episode in May to discuss the results!
App Masters:
https://appmasters.com
Steve's youtube channel (great free content):
https://www...2024-03-2850 minShip Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!A Viral Trivia App and Financial Independence - pt 1.Casey talks about Dribble Game Trivia, the viral basketball trivia app he built in Flutter with Taylor Stein. The app reached #23 for Trivia on the App Store and has taken Casey 20% of the way to "ramen profitable".
Listen to this episode to hear about how he's gotten there and then tune in to part 2 next week to hear about the ASO and monetization audit AppMasters did on Dribble and the strategies they provided to 5-10x daily revenue!
https://dribblegame.com/install2024-03-2137 min
Ship Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!Building a Privacy First Budgeting App with Brandon TrautmannLuke and Casey talk to Brandon Trautmann, a Flutter engineer at personal finance startup Betterment.
Inspired by #buildinpublic on Twitter, Brandon launched "Lumy", a data-centric companion for the home budgeting app "YNAB".
He talks about launching his first indie app, building an all-local privacy first Flutter stack, and more!
You can check out Lumy and Brandon here:
https://twitter.com/BrandoTrautmann
https://linktr.ee/lumyforynab2024-03-1348 min