About Ship Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!
Luke is a professional frontend engineer building a portfolio of indie apps and developer tools. Casey is an ex Google/Firebase backend engineer breaking into indie app development with the viral sports trivia app "Dribble Game Trivia".
Each episode we bring on a new guest from the Build In Public community to learn from their bootstrap journey! We cover everything from TikTok content strategies to ASO to building an algorithmic newsfeed on serverless SAAS.
Join us on our journey and learn along with us as we bootstrap and ship our way to financial freedom with Flutter and friends!
Host Marcus Ng and guest Luke discuss React Native versus Flutter and the future of app development in this candid interview.
4 Oct 2024
Update Episode - Coming Back BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER
Host Alex Cornell interviews Senior Flutter Engineer Alex Cornell about his move to Betterment and the upcoming rebrand of the "Ship Fam" podcast.
21 Aug 2024
Luke's Crack App
Host Luke Pighetti shares how he built an addictive app for his nieces, earning it the nickname "Luke's Crack App".
6 Aug 2024
Is Flutter Web Viable Now? and Luke's PWA "Vibe Check" Projects
Host Luke shares insights on Flutter Web's viability and his PWA projects for idea validation, interviewing himself on his latest developments.
1 Aug 2024
Outdoors Apps with Coding Marine
Host Luke and guest Mike Jones, also known as CodingMarine, discuss his outdoors-focused Flutter apps and their development.
30 Jul 2024
Anatomy of a Banger App (Umax case study)
Host Luke Pighetti dissects the creation of the viral "Umax" app, revealing key strategies for building successful consumer applications.
19 Jul 2024
What Feels "Native"? - Interview With Matan on Flutter Rendering
Host Brandon Mitchell interviews Flutter Engineer Matan Lurey about what makes Flutter feel native and its rendering mechanics.
10 Jul 2024
Interview With Sebastian, the Indie Hacker Behind HabitKit!
Host Alex builds a six-figure ARR business with HabitKit, sharing his indie hacker journey from new grad in this interview with Sebastian Roehl.
5 Jul 2024
Flutter Leadership and Package Ecosystem
Host Luke and guest Casey explore Flutter's package ecosystem and its perceived leadership void, offering insights into community-driven development.
27 Jun 2024
Stories From the Trenches: Software Engineering Interviews
Software engineers Casey Crogers and Luke Pighetti share their candid software engineering interview experiences, offering valuable insights for aspiring developers.
12 Jun 2024
Counterintuitive App Dev Tricks THEY Don't Want You To Know
Luke and I discuss why and how engineers are so bad at predicting user behavior and share some counterintuitive tips and tricks we've learned for predicting user behavior and making money off indie apps!
https://x.com/caseycrogers (https://x.com/caseycrogers)
https://x.com/luke_pighetti (https://x.com/luke_pighetti)
22 May 2024
Casey Is Selling Out (Dribble Game Pt 3, EU/Acc, and the CEO of RIzz)
One month ago we set goals for Casey's viral NBA trivia app "Dribble Game". Through ASO and funnel optimization, we were going to 5x it from $100 daily revenue to $500. Hear how it went!
Spoiler alert: Casey is now job hunting.
We also chat about viral Zoomer social apps, the CEO of RIzz, LevelsIO's "EU acceleration" and more! There's a whole heck of a lot packed into this episode that you won't want to miss.
30 Apr 2024
"eXtreme Go Horse" and Why Experienced Engineers Do Everything Wrong (TM)
Luke and I riff on "eXtreme Go Horse", a Brazilian coding style we discovered through a youtube video by the Primeagen.
We discuss how experienced engineers so often engage in "bad" practices that beginner engineers are trained to avoid and share instructive and entertaining stories from our respective careers in tech.
Extreme Go Horse:
https://medium.com/@dekaah/22-axioms-of-the-extreme-go-horse-methodology-xgh-9fa739ab55b4
theprimeagen on Sprints and XGH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p1Q4c3TF3c
16 Apr 2024
Luke Solo Ep - Thenics Pro Status update
Casey is traveling back from Europe to the land of the free and the home of the brave so this week's episode is a solo episode with Luke giving a status update on his newly launched calisthenics app "Thenics Pro".
Hear about App Store app pre-orders, ads for ASO and gauging product-market fit.
https://thenicspro.com/ (https://thenicspro.com/)
https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti (https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti)
11 Apr 2024
Luke walks away from his six figure salary
Luke talks about: the solar eclipse, quitting his job at tonal, and the "Waffle House" top-of-funnel experiment that he's currently running with this new exercise app, Thenics Pro.
Download Thenics Pro:
https://thenicspro.com/ (https://thenicspro.com/)
Follow Luke and Casey on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti (https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti)
https://twitter.com/caseycrogers (https://twitter.com/caseycrogers)
5 Apr 2024
Dart Code Metrics - Monetizing Client Side Tools and The Downsides of Open Source Software
We brought on Dmitry Zhifarsky to talk about his premium Dart/Flutter analysis tool "Dart Code Metrics".
We focus on the downsides to open source software and the challenges of monetizing client-side software.
Check out DCM and Dmitry's Twitter here:
https://dcm.dev/ (https://dcm.dev/)
https://twitter.com/_incendial (https://twitter.com/_incendial)
Follow Luke and Casey on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti (https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti)
https://twitter.com/caseycrogers (https://twitter.com/caseycrogers)
28 Mar 2024
Dribble Game and Financial Independence - pt 2.
This is a follow up to last week's episode on Dribble Game-Casey's viral NBA trivia app.
This week's episode focuses on ASO and paywall optimization strategies that Casey got from an app audit with Steve Young from the app consultant firm App Masters. Over the next month Casey intends to implement these ideas and 5-10x Dribble Game's revenue. We'll have a followup episode in May to discuss the results!
App Masters:
https://appmasters.com
Steve's youtube channel (great free content):
https://www.youtube.com/@AppMasters
Luke on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/luke_pighetti
Casey on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/caseycrogers
21 Mar 2024
A Viral Trivia App and Financial Independence - pt 1.
Casey talks about Dribble Game Trivia, the viral basketball trivia app he built in Flutter with Taylor Stein. The app reached #23 for Trivia on the App Store and has taken Casey 20% of the way to "ramen profitable".
Listen to this episode to hear about how he's gotten there and then tune in to part 2 next week to hear about the ASO and monetization audit AppMasters did on Dribble and the strategies they provided to 5-10x daily revenue!
https://dribblegame.com/install (https://dribblegame.com/install)
13 Mar 2024
Building a Privacy First Budgeting App with Brandon Trautmann
Luke and Casey talk to Brandon Trautmann, a Flutter engineer at personal finance startup Betterment.
Inspired by #buildinpublic on Twitter, Brandon launched "Lumy", a data-centric companion for the home budgeting app "YNAB".
He talks about launching his first indie app, building an all-local privacy first Flutter stack, and more!
You can check out Lumy and Brandon here:
https://twitter.com/BrandoTrautmann (https://twitter.com/BrandoTrautmann)
https://linktr.ee/lumyforynab (https://linktr.ee/lumyforynab)
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Luke Pighetti
Mike Jones
CodingMarine
Matan Lurey
Matan
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