🚦 Waiting on the Google Gods...

The review team is taking their sweet time with DevMap. (Maybe they got distracted learning Flutter from our roadmaps? 😉).

ትንሽ ትግስት, fam! We should be live any minute. 🤞

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
— Sydney J. Harris ✍️
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Dec 17, 2025.

Every Flutter widget has a story- from birth to disposal. 👆Here's a visual breakdown of the StatefulWidget lifecycle:

① Creation → createState(), initState()

②Building didChangeDependencies(), build()

③ Updating setState(), didUpdateWidget()

④ Destruction → deactivate(), dispose()


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⏳ Still waiting for Google Play approval…
Everything is ready. Coming very soon

🥊 War Saturday: How do you organize the chaos?

Your app just hit 50 screens. It's getting big.
How are you structuring your folders? 📂

There are two types of developers in this world. Which one are you?

Team A: Layer-First
(Separating by tech type)
📂 screens/
📂 widgets/
📂 models/

Team B: Feature-First
(Separating by business logic)
📂 auth/ (contains screens + widgets + models)
📂 profile/ (contains screens + widgets + models)

Pick a side. 👇

Something big is coming to change how you use your phone‼️

We launch in 15 days. Based on this screen... can you guess what this app does? 👇

📱 Stop Doomscrolling. Start Leveling Up.

We are all guilty of it. You open an app for "5 minutes" and suddenly it’s been an hour of watching cat videos and dances. You put the phone down feeling drained.

We are building the antidote.

Introducing Doomscroll Edu (working noscript) — the app that hijacks your dopamine loops for good.

The Concept: It looks and feels like TikTok, but every swipe is a micro-lesson. Python snippets, React hooks, System Design tips, delivered in 30 seconds or less.

🎮 The Gamification: You don't just watch; you play.

✅ Earn XP for every video you finish.
✅ Take Micro-Quizzes to lock in the knowledge.
✅ Streak System to keep you learning daily.

We are building the backend(Node.js) and the frontend (Flutter) right now. The UI is dark, slick, and ready for late-night grinding.

Stop wasting your scroll. Make it count.

We just released Wikipedia Amharic on Hugging Face – thousands of Wikipedia articles translated to Amharic using our Aleph (፩) model.

It's one of the largest Amharic knowledge bases out there (55k rows). Parallel corpus, full metadata, Apache 2.0 licensed.

Useful for anyone building Amharic NLP models, translation systems, or just needing quality Amharic training data.

https://huggingface.co/datasets/addisai/wikipedia-amharic

Free to use commercially. Attribution appreciated.
#opensource @addisassistantai

🎒 The "Solo Founder" Toolkit

If you are a one-person team, you don't have time to design assets or dig through thousands of packages. You need speed. ⚡️

Here are 3 free tools I use to ship apps faster:

1. FlutterGems 💎
🔗 fluttergems.dev
Searching on pub.dev can be painful.

✅ What it is: A visual directory of the best Flutter packages, categorized by feature (Maps, Charts, UI, Auth).
✅ Why use it: It lets you visually compare packages before you install them.

2. AppMockUp 📱
🔗 app-mockup.com
You built the app, but your Play Store screenshots look ugly?

✅ What it is: A free drag-and-drop tool to create professional App Store & iOS screenshots.
✅ Why use it: It handles all the device sizes for you. No Photoshop needed.

3. Supabase ⚡️
🔗 supabase.com
Stop building custom backends for MVPs.

✅ What it is: An open-source Firebase alternative. SQL database, Auth, Realtime, and Storage.
✅ Why use it: It plays *very* nicely with Flutter. You can get a backend running in 5 minutes.


💡 The Strategy: Build the UI with FlutterGems packages ➡️ Connect it to Supabase ➡️ Launch with AppMockUp screenshots.

🔓 SaaS Concept: The "Freemium" Lock

The mistake most Flutter devs make?
They build the whole app, then try to figure out how to make money.

The Pro Strategy:
Bake monetization into your UI from Day 1.

The "Locked Feature" Pattern:
Don't hide premium features completely. Show them, but lock them.

1. User sees the cool feature (e.g., "Dark Mode" or "Export PDF").
2. User taps it.
3. Paywall triggers. 💰

This is psychology. You cannot desire what you cannot see.

The Tech Stack:

✅ RevenueCat: Handles the subnoscriptions (Apple/Google logic is a nightmare, don't do it manually).
✅ Riverpod/Bloc: Stores the isPremium user state globally.

👆 Here is a simple wrapper widget you can use to wrap ANY feature behind a paywall.

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🤔 Market Research Time

We are all developers here. We all want to build paid apps and make money. 💰

But the big question is: Do we actually support each other?

Many devs build a $10 app and get angry when no one buys it... but they haven't paid for an app in 5 years.

Let's see the real stats of this channel. Vote below. 👇

Use it fam

Coding is 10% typing and 90% reading documentation.

I'm spending today catching up on the new Flutter updates.

You can't pour from an empty cup. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is stop coding and start reading.

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The faster you fail, the faster you find what works. Speed is a competitive advantage.

🛑 Stop Watching Tutorials.

It sounds crazy coming from a content creator, but hear me out.

You can watch 100 hours of "How to build an Instagram Clone," and you will still freeze when you open a blank file. 🥶

Why?
Because following instructions isn't coding. It’s typing.
Coding is problem-solving.

The Challenge for this Week:
Do not watch a single "Code Along" video.
Instead, build something ugly on your own.

1. Think of a simple idea (e.g., A counter app that changes color).
2. Try to build it.
3. When you get stuck, Google the specific error, not "How to build X".

That struggle? That moment of frustration?
That is the only time you are actually learning.

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⚡️ Flutter Tip: Stop Spamming Your Own Server 🛑

If you have a Search Bar in your app, you might be making a huge mistake.

The Scenario:
A user wants to search for "Apple".
They type: A -> Ap -> App -> Appl -> Apple.

The Mistake:
If you listen to onChanged, you just sent 5 API requests to your backend.
If you have 1,000 users, that is 5,000 unnecessary hits. This slows down your app and costs you money. 💸

The Fix: Debouncing ⏳
"Debouncing" means: "Wait until the user STOPS typing for 500ms before sending the request."

👆 Here is a simple, reusable Debouncer class you can use right now.

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