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Fluttercon EU 2025 Grows Bigger Than Ever: Highlights From Berlin

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · 8d

⚡ Fluttercon EU 2025 was electric!

Full rooms, new connections, and nonstop innovation & fun in Berlin.

If you missed it, we've got you covered!

Catch our recap → www.verygood.ventures/blog/flutter...

Discover VGV’s experience at Fluttercon EU 2025 in Berlin, including the highlights, standout sessions, and community moments that defined this year’s

A Very Good Hacktoberfest

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · 9d

Hacktoberfest is here! 🚀

We’ve opened up some of our biggest repos—Very Good CLI, Templates, and Workflows—for contributions.

Join us this month to build, learn, and celebrate open source with the community.

Read more about it 👉 www.verygood.ventures/blog/a-very-...

Hacktoberfest 2025 is here! Learn how Very Good Ventures is joining the month-long open source celebration.

Discover the Multi-Device Maturity Model—a research-backed framework to scale seamless, cross-platform product experiences across all connected devices.

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Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · 13d

If your organization is juggling multiple codebases and teams for every platform, you’re not alone. Platform sprawl drives up costs & slows releases.

Flutter brings it all together.

Watch our video to see how Flutter & VGV can help accelerate delivery→ www.verygood.ventures/resources/fl...

Flutter Migration Curve

From Theory to Reality: AI Decisioning & the Era of True 1:1 Personalization

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · 13d

The VGV team is back from Braze #Forge2025! BrazeAI is transforming marketers into strategic conductors, delivering true 1:1 personalization at scale.

💡 Key tips: clean data, aligned metrics, start small & scale smart.

The future of engagement is here! www.verygood.ventures/blog/from-th...

BrazeAI is transforming marketing with agents and decisioning tools to deliver true 1:1 personalization at scale.

Mastering Scalable Theming for Custom Widgets

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · 15d

🎨 Theming in #Flutter means consistency, scalability & happier devs.

Our latest blog, Senior Engineer Mauricio Miguez shares how to build robust theming for custom widgets with ThemeExtension & WidgetStateProperty.

www.verygood.ventures/blog/mastering-scalable-theming-for-custom-widgets

Discover how to build theming systems for custom widgets in Flutter using ThemeExtension, WidgetStates, and WidgetStateProperty.

The Value of Community, Code, & Collaboration

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Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · 27d

Quito, cacao, chivas, & a whole lot of Flutter energy.

We had a blast at #FlutterConfLatam 2025—3 talks, new swag, & the debut of our VGV World game built with Flutter & AI 🚀

Catch all the highlights here: www.verygood.ventures/blog/the-val...
#Flutter #FlutterCommunity #AppDev #FlutterConfLatam

Very Good Ventures attended FlutterConf Latam 2025 in Quito as a proud Silver Sponsor. Discover key takeaways, community insights, and highlights.

Andrew Brogdon, Google — Developer Relations in the Agentic Era | Build to Succeed

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Sep 3

What if your app could think, plan & act on its own?

We sat down with Andrew Brogdon of Google to talk about AI agents moving from theory to reality, and what it means for the future of software.

🎧 Listen now → hubs.ly/Q03GsqMM0

Andrew Brogdon, Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google—and one of Flutter’s earliest champions—shares how creative storytelling shapes developer relations, what DevRel looks like in an AI-powere...

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Elevating Flutter Test Reports with Allure

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Sep 2

We built a custom Allure adapter that turns messy output into visual, shareable, and stakeholder-friendly reports.

Read the new blog by Patricio Núñez → www.verygood.ventures/blog/elevati...

#Flutter #Testing #QA #Allure #Automation

Discover how we built a custom Allure integration for Flutter UI testing to generate visual, shareable, and structured test reports that are readable.

How Server Driven UI (SDUI) Changed the Way I Think About Mobile Development

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Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Aug 28

⏱️ No more waiting on app store approvals.
🎨 No more static UIs.
⚡ Just instant updates & personalization.

At #FlutterconUSA2025, Jordan Nnabugwu shared how Server Driven UI (SDUI) is reshaping mobile dev—and why it feels like a cheat code.

Read the blog → www.verygood.ventures/blog/how-ser...

Discover how Server Driven UI (SDUI) is reshaping mobile development by eliminating app store delays and boosting personalization.

A New Era for App Design (and What it Means for Flutter)

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Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Aug 26

Flutter's shift to decouple Material & Cupertino is a design revolution: faster updates, more freedom, and endless flexibility for devs.

What does this mean for your codebase? 👀

Read our take on it here 👇
www.verygood.ventures/blog/a-new-e...

Discover how Flutter’s move to decouple Material and Cupertino libraries gives developers faster updates, more flexibility, and the freedom to build.

Rewriting the Rules of Hardware Engineering with AI

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Aug 21

Trying to scale seamless multi-device UX?

The Multi-Device Maturity Model is a strategic, research-backed framework to help you find where your org stands—and what to do next.

Benchmark, uncover gaps, and more!

www.verygood.ventures/resources/mdmm

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Aug 20

What if your systems could fix themselves?

In our latest #BuildToSucceed episode,
Pratap Ranade, CEO & Co-Founder at Arena, joins us to talk agentic AI, self-repairing systems, and the future of real-world engineering.

🔗 www.verygood.ventures/blog/rewriti...

Discover why emergent intelligence and multi-agent swarms are the next frontier in engineering.

Pratap Ranade, Arena — The Future of Applied Science and Humanity With AI | Build to Succeed

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Aug 13

AI is helping hardware catch up to software speed. How?

Listen to the new #BuildToSucceed episode, where Pratap Ranade, CEO & Co-Founder at Arena breaks down how AI is actually making a difference in aerospace, automotive, and defense.

🎧Listen here: hubs.ly/Q03Bmg8H0

What happens when AI meets the gritty, high-stakes world of hardware engineering? In this episode, Arena CEO and Co-Founder Pratap Ranade joins us to share how his team is building AI-native tools tha...

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PanelPicker | SXSW Conference & Festivals

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Aug 8

Your vote could help us bring NASCAR & Flutter to #SXSW! 🏁

Vote for our Panel Picker session: "Engineering VIP Experiences at 200MPH"

How we turned race-day noise & data into an immersive fan experience.

participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

#SXSW2026 #Panelpicker

PanelPicker® is the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform. Enter ideas and vote to help shape Conference programming for SXSW and SXSW EDU.

participate.sxsw.com

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Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Aug 7

Getting users to love your product...and actually stick around? That’s kind of our thing.

We built the Multi-Device Maturity Model to help you level up across:
✅ Architecture
✅ UX & UI
✅ Team ops
✅ Customer value

🎯 Download the whitepaper: hubs.ly/Q03zGLZq0

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Jul 31

What earns dev trust? Not buzzwords but real leadership.

On this #BuildToSucceed episode, Andrew Tunall, President of Embrace, shares how credibility, culture & product vision intersect, especially when building for technical users.

verygood.ventures/blog/beyond-...

Beyond Crash Reports: Why Observability Is a Business Imperative

Andrew Tunall, President of Embrace, joins our podcast to discuss observability, product leadership, and the cultural shifts necessary to ship fast.

Dart Frog Has Found a New Pond!

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Jul 30

🐸Announcing a big leap for Dart Frog!

🎉The beloved backend framework now has a new home: dart-frog-dev on GitHub

Built at VGV, grown by the community—and now ready for the next chapter.

→ Read more: hubs.ly/Q03zz1fX0
Link to Github → lnkd.in/g2R-TVDm

Dart Frog is now part of its own GitHub organization, in a new era of community-led development and broader collaboration

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Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Jul 23

👀Shipping fast doesn’t matter if your team can’t see what’s breaking.

On the latest #BuildToSucceed, Andrew Tunall, President of Embrace, breaks down what it really takes to scale high-performing apps!

🎧Don’t miss this episode → verygood.ventures/podcasts/and...

Andrew Tunall, Embrace - From QA-Heavy to AI-Ready: Modernizing Product Delivery | Build to Succeed

In this episode, Andrew Tunall, President of Embrace, shares what it takes to scale high-quality software in today’s AI-driven world. From his early journey into product to leading technical teams at ...

A Very Good Time at Fluttercon USA 2025

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Jul 22

Still thinking about the magic of #Fluttercon USA 2025 🗽💙

From deep tech dives to real community connections, our VGV engineers shared their biggest takeaways in a new recap.

📖 Read it here: verygood.ventures/blog/a-very-...

What stood out at Fluttercon USA 2025: recap of key moments, community connections, and lessons from the year’s biggest Flutter event.

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Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!

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Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Jul 17

In case you missed it:

Snipd’s founders joined Build to Succeed to talk AI, product, and startup lessons learned the hard way.

Fast, honest, and worth your time.

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From Pain Point to Product: How Snipd Is Reinventing Podcast Listening with AI and Flutter

Discover how Snipd built an AI-native podcast app with Flutter to transform how we capture and revisit insights from audio.

Very Good Ventures Hits the Track: Designing for Impact at 200 MPH

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚗💨 We designed a custom NASCAR Cup Series paint scheme for Daniel Suarez’s car—complete with unicorn nods, “Hot Reload!” by the gas tank & Flutter flair.

Bold brand, full throttle. 🏁

Read the full story 👉 verygood.ventures/blog/very-go...

#VGV #NASCAR #FlutterDev #Design

Very Good Ventures stepped onto a new stage with a custom-designed NASCAR Cup Series paint scheme for Daniel Suárez.

Inside Fluttercon USA 2025: Innovation, Leadership & a Very Good Time in NYC

Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Jul 14

The Fluttercon 2025 recap you were waiting for is here 🔥

From NYC to your screen: VGV’s sessions, takeaways, and behind-the-scenes moments.

📖 Read now → verygood.ventures/blog/inside-...

And stay tuned for more!

#FlutterDev #VGV #FTCon25USA #Flutter

Catch up on the Fluttercon USA 2025 major announcements, VGV sessions, and behind-the-scenes gatherings that defined the event.

Landon Robinson, Etsy — From Platform Silos to Product Unity: A New Era of App Development | Build to Succeed

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Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · Jun 18

We asked Landon Robinson, Staff Engineer at Etsy, how his team built a powerful seller app without slowing down. He said:

🧠 Smart platform choices
👥 Lean team structure
🚀 Rapid delivery

Hear all about it in our latest #BuildToSucceed podcast episode: verygood.ventures/podcasts/lan...

In this episode, we sit down with Landon Robinson, Staff Engineer at Etsy, to explore how the team behind the Etsy Seller app is leveraging Flutter to scale mobile development with speed and precision...