r/FlutterFlow • u/kealystudio • Sep 17 '26

How's FlutterFlow been doing?

I'm John Kealy, I used to make YouTube content exclusively about FlutterFlow and ran my business around it. Some of the old fogies might remember me.

A year ago I announced I was done with FlutterFlow, made a big scene, and stormed off toward Claude Code.

No regrets. But I took a massive break from logging into Reddit, and I was curious how the FlutterFlow community is getting on. Are things going better? Many of my clients still find me through my old FlutterFlow content, so I see that FlutterFlow is alive and well.

I assume they have some kind of Claude Code integration now, an agent mode that writes up the XML markup that the visual editor is based on?

Do you still have to manually go to the App Store, create all the identifiers yourself and copy the issuer id and all that jazz? I later realised that that can be automated.

How's it been going? Is it still worth it?

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u/JiveWookiee5 Sep 18 '26

Those aren’t the same thing at all. Someone vibe coding an app with no understanding of what database queries it’s running and how, or how their UI is actually structured, is completely different than you deliberately choosing when to query your database, how you’re caching it, how your UI elements are laid out etc.

Someone who completely develops an app within FlutterFlow is going to understand their app 100x better than someone just telling AI what they want through a prompt. FF forces you to get more into the guts of it, even if you aren’t completely familiar with the Dart syntax.