I'm leaving this course review hoping it will be helpful to other students. I became interested in app development and, as a non-major, I was considering no-code tools but chose FlutterFlow over Bubble to utilize faster execution speed and push notification features. Before taking this course, I had already taken another FlutterFlow basics course and learned basic UI, so I started with that foundation.
1. What you can gain from this course
- Building a minimal app with bulletin board and comment features using FlutterFlow
- Insights into no-code in general: This was included in the free public lectures, and I found it surprisingly important. It helped me understand and gain confidence in what strengths FlutterFlow has compared to other no-code tools and what other tools are available. If anyone is considering no-code tools, I highly recommend watching this since it's free.
- Understanding how to use FlutterFlow: The instructor explains basic concepts bit by bit, which helped me better understand how to use FlutterFlow. While it may be partly because I took another course before this one, I think the instructor's teaching ability itself is excellent.
2. What you cannot do with this course alone
- Implementing features like social login, phone number login, GPS authentication, push notifications, chat functions, etc. (Some seem to be covered in advanced classes.)
- Practicing the actual final app release process (This also seems to be covered in advanced classes.)
3. Disappointing points
- Since this is a free course that gets updated, it's naturally an advantage, but this course appears to have been updated several times. Therefore, partial renewals have been made, and I think some parts have been refined with the latest information. However, from a follower's perspective, I got the impression that page names were different or the learning order seemed to go back and forth. It seems you're currently in a different position, but if you have time, it would be great if you could refine the course to feel smoother.
- Even at this point after completing 100% of the course, I don't have a clear understanding of DB-related matters. I've only grasped the general idea but haven't achieved a clear understanding of how to use it. Of course, you give us time before practice and ask us to think for ourselves, but I think there are parts we need to study on our own beforehand. The course covered only the minimum about queries, parameters, DB design, etc., and honestly, while taking the course, I couldn't reach an understanding of why certain variable values should be used, why parameters need to be passed, or how to structure the DB to implement other features. Also, conditional statements seem like they would be applied very diversely in actual apps, but I couldn't experience that.
4. What I hope for
- Please create a famous app clone making course.
I think most people making apps probably dream of apps like Karrot Market, Airbnb, Instagram, etc. I know they're super apps, but I think many people would want to implement features like social login, chat, photo and video uploads, not just bulletin boards and comments. Therefore, if possible, creating a course on making clone apps of famous apps with no-code, like clone coding, would be a great help to many people.
- It would be great if you could create a channel for students taking this course to communicate with each other. (The FlutterFlow community seems too weak.)
4. Why I gave this course 5 stars
- The instructor has excellent insights and teaching ability. While learning, I could imagine how much you know about various topics (business, app development, etc.) and what efforts you must have made before this course. Thank you for sharing your insights. And as you mentioned, based on this course, I plan to create apps using templates and components, structure them myself, and start making apps in earnest. There are only a few FlutterFlow courses in Korean in Korea, so I think this is a very valuable course. I know that knowledge sharing is difficult and requires a lot of effort, so I sincerely want to thank you. And if you have time in the future, I would appreciate it if you could consider the disappointing points and what I hope for. Happy New Year, and stay healthy. And fighting to all other students taking this course.