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by asgreaves 1859 days ago
FlutterFlow cofounder here! We thought the HN crowd would want to see the generated code for FlutterMet, so here it is: https://github.com/FlutterFlow/FlutterMetSample/tree/flutter...

We try to generate clean Flutter code that follows best practices – we have a long way to go, but we couldn't be more excited.

Edit: Also, here's the video of us building it (in just under an hour): https://youtu.be/TXsjnd_4SBo

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Of all the web based mobile app development services, FlutterFlow makes more sense as flutter has graduated to be a viable cross-platform development software and dart is well-suited for creating a visual programming tool.

I'm excited to see desktop applications built using FlutterFlow as desktop support for flutter is fast improving.

P.S. I've added FlutterFlow to my curated list of startup tools - https://startuptoolchain.com/ under Visual Programming. I wish you all the best.

Can you add saas pass and acmelogin under security and identity management
Sure I'll check them out, Get some feedback & then add it to StartupToolchain.

Thanks for bringing them to my notice.

Congrats!

I see the web/index.html references a service worker that doesn't exist in the repo. Is this the case or am I looking in the wrong place?

Do you have a generated service worker file you can share?

Howdy! Are you planning on Desktop support for the UI builder? I was about to hand you all my money but it doesn't like it exists yet... or at least allow me to set custom dimensions on the editor/preview.

Also, does it support rendering/previewing custom widgets?

FWIW-- I've done a fair amount iOS development and loved IB (despite all the crashes and issues) for the easy visual editing; so, I'm primarily looking at this as a way to better visualize and layout my components (I personally don't need incredibly robust desktop support).

Thanks for the work on this it looks awesome.

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/1389695362714071043
Love the product, this is incredible!

- Is it possible to set an API request header to include the Firebase ID token?

- Are you able to embed a webview on a page?

- Is there a pattern yet for in-app payments?

In the second one, you can use in_app_webview to do this.
It’ll be great if you had an “about us” section there so I could easily see who is behind it, instead having to google it.

Your backgrounds [1] seem very solid so why not showcase it?

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/asgreaves

congrats.

would love to see a 5-min version of this video, narrated and/or annotated, with zero formatting, or bootstrap-like default formatting.

one thing that always trips me out with UI builders is seeing how, to produce some 'simple' list, you have to stack a grid, on top of a card, on top of a row, on top of a column, on top of a cell, on top of a row, inside of a column, etc.

just seems like i should be able to drag one simple list-like component into the view, wire up the api/db query, done.

congrats on launch! just wondering since you're here - what is the roadmap now that you're launched and what key hires are you looking to make?

am always interested in how companies transition from a deep build phase into a build-and-market-what-you've-already-built phase.

thanks! we have some exciting features coming up. - deploy to app stores from FlutterFlow, via Codemagic - search functionality, via Algolia - several widgets (map/chat/pop-ups/bottom sheet)

in terms of our team, we're looking to bring on a community manager and a content strategist.

oh man, deploy to app store would be magical. looking forward to that!

if you'd like to chat with me on content strategy, you have my email :)

Hey, can I use the UI design of flutterflow for a tool I'm building.

The tool is called ui-editor and it generates code in reactjs. I'm trying to address few problems in web as an experiment here is the link to the tool https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor

Is there a way to see FlutterMet running with Flutter-for-web in a web browser?
Hello! Congratulations. How would I hire someone who knows how to use this and could guide me? I think I’d like to hire someone to build in this.
Thanks! We're in the process of building our FlutterFlow community, which will make it easy to find and hire experts.
Where is FlutterFlow with supporting UI import from the design realm (Figma, Sketch etc) ?
Are push notifications on iOS supported?
Congrats on hitting 1.0, Alex and Abel!