Speakers

Scaling “Scanner Alimente” - a Flutter app to 100,000 Monthly Active Users (MAU) as a 23 year old solo developer. Why smart planning in both technical implementation and cost management was a vital aspect in the application’s journey. Reaching 100k MAU is a significant milestone – many indie apps never even hit 1k MAU​. This level of growth brings new challenges in performance, infrastructure, and maintaining quality. As a one-person team, you must be strategic in how you spend both time and money.Embrace tools and services that save you time (like Backend-as-a-Service solutions) since you don’t have a dedicated ops team but those must be used with care, since those choices will scale in cost as the user base grows. We will cover a hybrid cloud approach in which we try to stay within the limits of Firebase’s free tier and offload heavy computation and database operations to a Hetzner Cloud machine.We’ll cover cost management strategies, performance optimization across devices, power efficiency techniques, deployment practices for growing demand such that costs are kept low. These are the key areas to focus on to ensure your Flutter app can scale smoothly both technically and in terms of business viability. Read More...