Comment by roughike
13 hours ago
> This fundamentally does not work for anyone with more than 10M+ installs just like you can't write Mandarin and English in one script.
Well, I did work on a Flutter app with a tiny team between 2018-2021 and we had 15M installs, were app of the day, got featured multiple times in the App Store, got Google’s design award, were a preloaded app on iPhones in Apple Stores in several countries, and were overall doing quite well.
It was a very focused app though, so the size of our codebase didn’t really grow with the number of installs.
In the short-term it can work.
Over time maintenance becomes hard
New iOS and Android features, sometimes backward-incompatible are introduced.
And now, you need your dependencies to implement them. Which might or might not happen. At best, this makes usage inferior. At worst, you can no longer publish an update in app stores.
This app was started in 2017 and it is still running today and making (way more modest than back then) revenue. It’s just that I don’t work on it anymore.