How Flutter Saved Our Startup and Became Our Secret Growth Engine
Our Cross-Platform Nightmare
The coffee had gone cold. Again. My co-founder Sarah and I stared at the brutal reality: $83,000 spent, six months wasted, and two separate codebases (iOS/Android) that refused to sync.
Flutter: Our Lifeline
When our CTO Marcos declared: "We're switching to Flutter. Now." Four weeks later, we had:
The Human Revolution
The real magic wasn't technical - it was cultural. Designers prototyped directly in Dart. QA tested one version instead of two. We shipped features in days instead of weeks.
The Secret Nobody Tells You
Flutter's real power? Aligning human incentives:
AI's Magic Touch
We watched a junior dev build features using Figma + ChatGPT + Hot Reload - without prior Dart knowledge. Tools like FlutterFlow are reshaping development.
Why Your Business Should Care
The Bitter Truth
Flutter isn't magic. We wrote custom Kotlin for AR features. Sweated through Apple policy changes. But we survived while competitors drowned in native development costs.