Very Good Ventures with David DeRemer

In this episode, I talked to David DeRemer, the Founder and President of Very Good Ventures. VGV, Very Good Ventures, is a global Flutter development consultancy. Their work and apps were featured on multiple global Flutter events, for example, they built the first major Flutter desktop app, the Flutter slides app for Flutter Live 18, as well as the Google I/O photo booth app, the multiplatform New York Times KENKEN game, and the Hamilton app.

I talked to David about Very Good Ventures, why they went all-in on Flutter, how the Flutter ecosystem has grown since the company was founded, we’ll talk about open source development, building things reliably and consistently, the importance of testing, and David also shared with us the approach they took to building a great team.

Guest: David DeRemer

• Twitter @deremer
• GitHub @deremer
• LinkedIn @davidderemer
• Web davidderemer.com

Very Good Ventures

• Twitter @VGVentures
• Web verygood.ventures
• GitHub @VGVentures and @VeryGoodOpenSource
• Blog verygood.ventures/blog
• LinkedIn Very Good Ventures
• pub.dev/publishers/verygood.ventures

Host: Vince Varga

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Most relevant past episodes from Flutter 101

• Product Owner's Perspective on Flutter with Tom Arra (Episode 4) - Tom Arra is a Program Manager at Very Good Ventures. Previously, he worked as Product Owner at BMW, Microsoft, and Nokia. We talked about his experience with Flutter as a Product Owner.
• Codemagic with CEO Martin Jeret (Episode 2) - We talked to Martin Jeret about Codemagic, CI/CD for mobile apps, and other challenges Flutter developers face.
• Flutter Development Experience with Chris Sells (Episode 16) - Chris Sells is a Senior Product Manager at Google on Flutter. Chris is responsible for the end-to-end development experience, as well as tooling, the package ecosystem, and the desktop platform support. We talked about all that!

Mentioned packages

• pub.dev/packages/very_good_analysis - "Lint rules for Dart and Flutter used internally at Very Good Ventures."
• pub.dev/packages/very_good_cli - "A Very Good Command Line Interface for Dart created by Very Good Ventures."
• pub.dev/packages/very_good_performance - "Utility on top of the Flutter Driver API that facilitates measuring the performance of your app in an automated way."
• pub.dev/packages/pro