Ship Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!
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Ship Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more!

Luke Pighetti and Casey Rogers

English United States Technology
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Episodes
19
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4.8 / 5
4 Apple ratings
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Weekly
~every 8.43252 days
Since
Mar 13, 2024
First episode
Latest
Dec 05, 2025
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Category
Technology
Language
English
Region
United States
Format
Episodic
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Clean or unspecified

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Luke is a professional frontend engineer building a portfolio of indie apps and developer tools. Casey is an ex Google/Firebase backend engineer breaking into indie app development with the viral sports trivia app "Dribble Game Trivia". Each episode we bring on a new guest from the Build In Public community to learn from their bootstrap journey! We cover everything from TikTok content strategies to ASO to building an algorithmic newsfeed on serverless SAAS. Join us on our journey and learn along with us as we bootstrap and ship our way to financial freedom with Flutter and friends!

Recent Content Cues

Ship Fam: Return Of The Fam
Dec 05, 2025
Update Episode - Coming Back BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER
Oct 04, 2024
Luke's Crack App
Aug 21, 2024

Recent Episodes

S2E1 Ship Fam: Return Of The Fam

Dec 05, 2025 55m

We're back! And we're off the cuff.Luke visited me in NYC and we recorded an off the cuff in person episode. It's like we never left!Topics:- React Native vs Flutter pros and cons- Is Flutter…

S1 Update Episode - Coming Back BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER

Oct 04, 2024 1m Trailer

Hey all! Sorry for the long gap between episodes. This is a quick update letting you know what Luke and I are planning for the pod. Here's the TLDR: We're taking a long break while I move out to New…

Luke's Crack App

Aug 21, 2024 45m

Luke challenged himself to build an app for his young nieces over a family reunion. Hear about what he built and how it was so addicting his extended family dubbed it "Luke's Crack…

Is Flutter Web Viable Now? and Luke's PWA "Vibe Check" Projects

Aug 06, 2024 34m

This episode is a Luke update where he talks about the Flutter WASM based PWAs (Progressive Web App) he's been building to "vibe check" ideas that come to him and the new ultra-lightweight analytics…

Outdoors Apps with Coding Marine

Aug 01, 2024 50m

Luke and I talk to Mike Jones (AKA CodingMarine) about his set of outdoors focused Flutter apps! https://dontforgetthespoon.com/ https://www.dontforgettheweather.com/ https://twitter.com/codingMarine

Anatomy of a Banger App (Umax case study)

Jul 30, 2024 48m

Luke walks through his methodology for analyzing successful consumer apps and applies to the viral multi-million ARR "Umax" looks maxing…

What Feels "Native"? - Interview With Matan on Flutter Rendering

Jul 19, 2024 57m

We interviewed Matan Lurey-and Engineer working on Impeller on the Flutter team! We talked to him about the decisions and underlying mechanics driving Flutter, the current state of Flutter shader…

S1E12 Interview With Sebastian, the Indie Hacker Behind HabitKit!

Jul 10, 2024 35m

On today's episode, we bring on Sebastian and talk about his indie journey from new grad to six figure ARR with HabitKit! Links: https://x.com/SebastianRoehl https://www.habitkit.app/

S1E11 Flutter Leadership and Package Ecosystem

Jul 05, 2024 41m

Luke and Casey discuss The Dart/Flutter package ecosystem and Flutter's seeming lack of top down leadership or publicly communicated vision. Flutter…

S1E10 Stories From the Trenches: Software Engineering Interviews

Jun 27, 2024 34m

Casey and Luke swap their software engineering interview stories! https://x.com/luke_pighetti https://x.com/caseycrogers

S1E9 Counterintuitive App Dev Tricks THEY Don't Want You To Know

Jun 12, 2024 40m

Luke and I discuss why and how engineers are so bad at predicting user behavior and share some counterintuitive tips and tricks we've learned for predicting user behavior and making money off indie…

S1E8 Casey Is Selling Out (Dribble Game Pt 3, EU/Acc, and the CEO of RIzz)

May 22, 2024 56m

One month ago we set goals for Casey's viral NBA trivia app "Dribble Game". Through ASO and funnel optimization, we were going to 5x it from $100 daily revenue to $500. Hear how it went! Spoiler…

S1E7 "eXtreme Go Horse" and Why Experienced Engineers Do Everything Wrong (TM)

Apr 30, 2024 35m

Luke and I riff on "eXtreme Go Horse", a Brazilian coding style we discovered through a youtube video by the Primeagen. We discuss how experienced engineers so often engage in "bad" practices that…

S1E6 Luke Solo Ep - Thenics Pro Status update

Apr 16, 2024 15m

Casey is traveling back from Europe to the land of the free and the home of the brave so this week's episode is a solo episode with Luke giving a status update on his newly launched calisthenics app…

S1E5 Luke walks away from his six figure salary

Apr 11, 2024 42m

Luke talks about: the solar eclipse, quitting his job at tonal, and the "Waffle House" top-of-funnel experiment that he's currently running with this new exercise app, Thenics Pro. Download Thenics…

S1E4 Dart Code Metrics - Monetizing Client Side Tools and The Downsides of Open Source Software

Apr 05, 2024 37m

We brought on Dmitry Zhifarsky to talk about his premium Dart/Flutter analysis tool "Dart Code Metrics". We focus on the downsides to open source software and the challenges of monetizing client-side…

S1E3 Dribble Game and Financial Independence - pt 2.

Mar 28, 2024 50m

This is a follow up to last week's episode on Dribble Game-Casey's viral NBA trivia app. This week's episode focuses on ASO and paywall optimization strategies that Casey got from an app audit with…

S1E2 A Viral Trivia App and Financial Independence - pt 1.

Mar 21, 2024 37m

Casey talks about Dribble Game Trivia, the viral basketball trivia app he built in Flutter with Taylor Stein. The app reached #23 for Trivia on the App Store and has taken Casey 20% of the way to…

S1E1 Building a Privacy First Budgeting App with Brandon Trautmann

Mar 13, 2024 48m

Luke and Casey talk to Brandon Trautmann, a Flutter engineer at personal finance startup Betterment. Inspired by #buildinpublic on Twitter, Brandon launched "Lumy", a data-centric companion for the…

Publishing Analytics

Frequency
~every 8.43252 days
Weekly
Avg Duration
42m
Format
Episodic
Since
Mar 13, 2024
Latest
Dec 05, 2025

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United States
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anchor.fm

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