News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social audio app with Flutter.

Re:Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social au... by theflyinghorse on Monday August 21, 2023 @01:54PM (#37213012)
The app loaded nearly instantly for me on mobile brave browser.

Seemingly flutter has gotten a lot better for flutter web. It's nice to see more adoptation of flutter

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social au... by jaybhum on Monday August 21, 2023 @01:58PM (#37213066)
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.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social au... by sgt on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:03PM (#37213125)
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. I sure hope so!

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social au... by satvikpendem on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:48PM (#37244807)
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.

[0] https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/web/wasm

[ Parent | on HN ]