10 FlutterFlow Lessons I Wish I Knew Earlier

My name’s Alim and over the last 10 year I’ve build 12+ apps. At age 21 I co-founded SeasonShare, a B2B SaaS for sports ticketing and grew the company from an idea to $10M in revenue. Then I built PrizePicks, the #1 daily fantasy sports app in the USA.

Throughout my career I’ve mentored 100+ early stage startups and angel invested in several.

Now, I’m the founder of Ambitious Labs, the leading no-code app building academy in the world. We’ve trained 450+ entrepreneurs on how to launch their app ideas themselves.

🚫 I’ve spent over $500k+ hiring developers on Upwork/Fiverr just to be ghosted and left with unusable code

🚫 I’ve written code for 15,000+ hours.. Lost sleep, been hospitalized for stress, and suffered extreme mental health issues. TLDR: coding sucks.

🚫 I’ve watched hundreds of founders burn their hard earned cash without validating their idea

🚫 I’ve seen people take out new credit cards to launch an app.. Just to lose it all…

And i do not want the same to happen to you.. Now in the area of no-code and AI, the smartest builders are

✅ Staying in control of their app by building it themselves using No-Code and AI

✅ Focusing on a lean MVP scope to avoid building something no one wants

✅ Following the same framework that billion dollar apps like Duolingo, Calm, Headspace, Tinder and others use to build revenue generating products

Through my failures and wounds - I built a launching acceleration platform called Dreams Into Apps that over 450+ builders are actively using to bring their ideas to life.

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[Gn_Agency]

Outstanding video. Really appreciate your take on the service considering your obvious years of developer experience. You totally could have extended this to a 30 minute video like most do but the concise format is so refreshing. Easy subs for your channel.

[markr]

if you’re wanting to build something like an e-commerce store or social media, how do you get around the web app issues? Is there another way to connect what you build in flutter flow with something else for the web side, or are you pretty much just out of luck with flutter flow at that point?

[yj-in-the-world]

Wow awesome. I signed up for the free course!

[practical-skills-school]

Very clear comment about support. I asked support, I left a comment under official FF video and I left the question. Nobody gave a clear hint. The question is - how to show a specific screen once a backend event happened. Like show "There's a match!" screen once you've got a pair in a dating app. Or "The trip is over" in a taxi app once the driver finishes the trip. I can't put a periodic check of this even ton every page, that's would be ridiculous. But how it can be done?

[ashishk]

Can you share videos of admin plan of Firebase with roles( admin, editor, viewer) where by admin- add, update, delete profiles, products,etc For shopping cart app firebase basically admin panel with client in one app using flutterflow

[imonforum]

does flutterflow have a way of dealing with widget extraction to avoid code duplication? I've been told the quality of code it produces is not great.

[devjesusc]

I love videos where you put great ideas in a short time, like in your video. Thanks.

[starpause]

Good to know about mobile apps vs web. I really want to make PWA to stay out of app stores so flutterflow probably isn't a good fit for my project. Too bad because there's so much to love otherwise! May still give it a go just for a prototype.

[wrillywonka]

Could you use flutterflow to build a search engine?

[miguelesparza]

hey bro, i just subscribed! where did you buy your glasses they are cooool

[devjesusc]

I have a question. Can someone learn faster to build Flutter apps with Flutterflow? (by downloading the sourcescode, and learning from it)

[YOZZI]

Why no one of you talking about some complicated structure like building app that has server proxy or autamtion tool saas? I checked a branch of YouTubers only talking about data and how to make an easy app... Please if you are really advising people can you do complicated thing and show us?

[eleeyaso]

Am I able to connect a discord bot to show users discord account on the app?

[emerson-sheaapril]

Great vid, I'm looking at your links, and they look slick as well, what did you use for those landing pages?

I want to learnt flutter flow, flutter and dart, so I'm really considering this. Ive done JS and some frameworks but I find JS to be overwhelming with the options and the mutability of the language makes it to do wierd things.

[empuraan]

Would FF be a wise choice to implement a full on ecommerce website and then go mobile with at a later stage ?

[lukadijak]

Can you upgrade to pro just in months when you want to publish the app and download the source code and then cancle the plan?

[JonnyBanana]

Im preimarly interested in building a web app sad to hear that the webversion is not so performent

[iiwakenashi]

I am interested in your FlutterFlow course but why no total PRICING shown on u page?

[fonzyhh]

Can I use flutter flow to make a card reading app like a tarot card reading app?

[dominickrodriguez]

I do not see the free month signup subscription link to FlutterFlow in the description. Could you provide it?