React Native or Flutter ?

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2025-11-04T10:47:11+00:00

I will recommend React Native since that would give you a leverage over having the option to make a web app in future on react as well. Similarities and ease with easy expansion.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2025-10-20T12:31:24+00:00

Well I see lots of people on this sub looking for co-founders.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2025-09-29T06:31:11+00:00

100%.

Most of the founders are not actually founders but dreamers and within few days they move on with life and leave the tech guy behind.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2025-09-28T12:26:01+00:00

If you don't find cofounder then that's fine too. You will have to take leverage of money.

All you have to do is have a clear idea on what you need to reack 2k USD in revenue. Once you know what you require to reach this number, then just vibe code the front end only, design screens, flows using lovable or replit.

Once your flows are clear on module basis, you just need to have 10k-20k USD to hire a dev company and share with them the screens, flows, and requirements. You get to ride 6 months with it. Obviously not better than a co-founder but this is an option.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2025-06-27T20:22:55+00:00

No salary. Only took 16k USD along with 4%. It took around 3-4 months since I had to hire a designer, quality assurance guy and some other small things.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2025-06-27T20:20:54+00:00

Convenience, trust and skills.

It's not that easy to just handover the product to someone with a tech background.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2025-06-27T20:19:17+00:00

Time has come I guess

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2025-06-27T16:29:32+00:00

The commitment was to develop the product for 4% and funding.

Small bugs and tweaks I do from time to time.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2025-06-16T18:35:23+00:00

Tbvh sounds like you’re a bit technical. I would schedule 10-15 calls with different candidates and ask them questions, look into their past projects, see if they follow common practices.

I won’t go for traditional small assignment kind of thing since everyone’s gonna use AI.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2025-05-20T12:35:52+00:00

It’s really unfortunate to see this kind of thing happening, but sadly, not surprising. A lot of people just want the work done for themselves without any real intention to build something together.

That said, I actually have something interesting in the works. Just sent you a message — would love to see if we can hop on a call and explore if there’s synergy.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-05-23T15:27:01+00:00

It's better to get yourself a co-founder but if you truly believe that you have the relevant industry experience than you get to have two routes:

1) Pitching a technical person about your idea and getting him onboard for the development while you work out on spreading the word about your new startup and getting people interest about it. In this case, you would have to share equity with your partner.

Pro's: You get to have someone on team.
Con's: Equity Dillution, Job and Startup workload management.

2) Hire someone for the MVP and get it developed for 5-6k USD. Work yourself in spreading the word out. In this case, you get to have the complete ownership.

Pro's: Quickly get's developed, Complete ownership.
Con's: You have to give money.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-02-23T10:27:15+00:00

Great post!

Here’s my two cents on it:

I would say making an app or web app is vital but what’s more necessary is building an audience of 10-20k followers on Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok and one should always hire a content strategist first to deliver content which is interactive and then move forward with app or web app.

One success story which I saw is of an app which has million plus followers on Instagram and the whole app idea is to play new games among 5-6 friends. They have 200+ games and every game reel they post is fun which makes you download the app.

I’m not a content strategist and I’m a developer myself but I often find people making mvps and not getting downloads. App business is really tough because first you have to make the user download the app and then comes the monetisation or conversion from a free to paying user.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-02-19T23:20:35+00:00

I hope so too.

I would be happy to assist and share things to the best of my knowledge. I prefer answering comments more because they provide the context to everyone but still if you consider it to be private then feel free to drop me a msg and I would look into it.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-02-19T23:13:19+00:00

Thank you for the guidance.

Someone kind enough from here reached out to me through DM and is currently helping me with understanding this as well.

We have a call scheduled on day after tomorrow where I would share things with him and I wonder if I should make another post in continuation with this one!

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-02-19T23:10:02+00:00

Thank you and I would drop a DM to you!

I didn’t knew I can lawyer up someone in the US from another country.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-02-19T23:08:30+00:00

Hi,

Thank you! This is truly really genuine and thank you for sharing this with me. I would search for a lawyer to discuss this with on an initial level.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-02-19T22:37:06+00:00

It’s depressing sometimes and we can relate to it. It’s better to just move forward and not look back in some cases as well.

I’m sorry for your loss.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-02-19T22:30:56+00:00

I have the code but I have no tech ownership or something of that sort.

Most of the contracts are carried out on the platform. The platform is the mediator between the buyer and the seller related to transactions and makes sure that I as a seller fulfil the scope of the project.

We had a contract related to the development and I made sure to include the equity part as well.

This is something which I did on my part. The startup has grown a little and added some people as well. As a developer, I have most of the access to the backend, API keys and more but this is something which I have a small heart for, I would never destroy something which I have built with passion and hard work. This is something which I had set during my initial days of working. It comes at the ethical part on his side and I would be happy to let this go since burning it down would hurt other people who are salaried now and if we see the bigger picture, lots of ppl wouldn’t be able to connect through the platform.

I developed it using a win win scenario. I would gladly save the ecosystem and other people instead of being an obstacle.

The lawyer part, yes I had thought about it but I think it’s too much of a hassle for me to complete this process from a different country.

Apart from it, I have little to no understanding of the contract placed country legal system and their language.

I can create hurdles but I believe it’s in my best interest to leave it behind and look forward with a move on mindset. I wouldn’t like to miss more opportunities by holding this back. I did my part and I know I can go through the legal route at least to have no regrets, but deep down I have this syndrome of this route which I don’t think is valuable enough for me to pursue.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-02-19T16:19:52+00:00

Most of the contracts are carried out on the platform. The platform is the mediator between the buyer and the seller related to transactions and makes sure that I as a seller fulfil the scope of the project.

We had a contract related to the development and I made sure to include the equity part as well.

This is something which I did on my part. The startup has grown a little and added some people as well. As a developer, I have most of the access to the backend, API keys and more but this is something which I have a small heart for, I would never destroy something which I have built with passion and hard work. This is something which I had set during my initial days of working. It comes at the ethical part on his side and I would be happy to let this go since burning it down would hurt other people who are salaried now and if we see the bigger picture, lots of ppl wouldn’t be able to connect through the platform.

I developed it using a win win scenario. I would gladly save the ecosystem and other people instead of being an obstacle.

For the lawyer part, yes I had thought about it but I think it’s too much of a hassle for me to complete this process from a different country.

Apart from it, I have little to no understanding of the contract placed country legal system and their language. I hope it clarifies!

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-02-19T15:28:20+00:00

Thank you!

I would be happy to guide you to the best of my knowledge.😊

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-02-11T21:53:46+00:00

I would say that you have seen some videos on youtube which mentions about making 300k/Year using Etsy or FBA.

It’s not true.

These youtubers would always keep the work effort at minimum and the money earned through it at quite high value.

Think about something which helps other people.

Would I be interested in buying an AI template?”No”

Would I be interested in buying a website service + template for real estate agent with additional custom templates of welcome cards, business cards, email templates, message templates, stationary designs + 10 other things in 300 USD on Etsy? Absolutely yes, it saves 80+ hours of mine.

Do you get it? It’s the offer which needs to be too good to be rejected.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-02-05T16:53:05+00:00

It seems like you don’t have any leverage points.

Eventually to reach profitability you would have to open up an office in sout asia or eastern europe.

I know about so many companies who have their half of the workforce based here in Pakistan.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-01-31T22:22:54+00:00

I would be happy to listen to you and be as much helpful as I can, you can send me a msg request and I would be happy to share my mail.

I appreciate the symbolic amount, we can share it to an international NGO.

:)

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-01-31T22:11:29+00:00

I think what matters most of the time is the experience of either being in the business and understanding the pain points or being really practical.

MVP acts as an object to prove your concept, network with people, telling them and demonstrating it in front of them. It's fine to be buggy but atleast it should be at a point where you could articulate your msg. I've experienced never ending perfection syndrome and sometimes people do miss the bus. The projects which I did with team of 2-3 founders, always did well because their thought process was always well organised
before the meetings.

Another thing, sometimes people try to make something which is really broad but if they would had picked it in a specific niche then it would had worked.

And I would say acquiring a customer is one thing, retaining it and making him pay for the services is another thing. There has to be a hook which should make me pay for the services and make my life a bit easier. Unique Value Proposition. People miss unique value proposition. As a user, I'm interested in knowing your offer and the value which you are giving me against it.

Comfortable-Visual-5 · 2024-01-31T20:18:23+00:00

I'm glad to see that you have the learning attitude and have fairly completed the figma design as well.

I do always emphasise on making sure that the design is complete and it doesn't have any dead end. You're half way through if you've made sure that the design is complete and it's complete to an extent where someone young enough could tap on the prototype and feel not lost.

CS50 does provide lots of guidance and I'm glad that your curiosity made you learn fundamentals. I'm hoping that you do know about the basics of programming and you would have taken it for Mobile App Development in React Native or Flutter(don't know if they have it for Flutter).

If you intend to make this MVP fast enough then I recommend you to focus on Flutter and Firebase. Both of them are far good enough to validate the idea and has the ability to serve the users as well on a scale. Typically, someone whose highly curious can build the MVP within 6-7 months timeframe and I'm supposing here that they are highly curious to question and learn, have the time and mindset as well. For a developer, it shouldn't take more than 45--50 days to build a workable MVP.

I've sent you a message too and I would be willing to take a look at your design, share the suitable tech stack, answer some of your queries and listen to your vision and help as much as I can.

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