One newsroom, one codebase, every screen.
Flutter for news, puzzle, and publishing apps that have to reach every device on day one, from one codebase your team can keep.
A 30-minute conversation about your product. If we’re the wrong fit, we’ll say so.
In production at
- 80% Less time to launch a news app Flutter News Toolkit
- 6 Platforms from one Flutter codebase The New York Times
- 6 weeks To launch a new English-language news app Hespress
In production
Google · Flutter News Toolkit
An open-source news app template, built with Google, so publishers launch in weeks.
- less time to launch
- 80%
- first publisher’s launch
- 6 weeks
- audience growth
- 10%
- Media & Publishing Flutter
NYT’s KENKEN, the first commercial Flutter web app
A multi-platform KENKEN game that shows Flutter on the web.
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Media & Publishing FlutterHespress launches its English news app in Flutter
VGV partners with Hespress to create a better mobile experience engaging a larger and more diverse audience in less than two months
In their words.
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“This toolkit is something that publishers had been asking for, and we executed this project with Very Good Ventures in a very short amount of time.”
Senior Product Manager, Google Zoey Fan -
“VGV was responsive to our needs and had an optimized workflow that made the whole process effortless.”
Social Media Manager, Hespress Yassin Bendaoud
One codebase for every screen your readers use.
Phones, tablets, and the web ship together, so a new section, a puzzle, or a subscription change goes out once.
- News apps on a head start Begin from the Flutter News Toolkit, with search, ads, accounts, and subscriptions already in place.
- Games and puzzles Interactive puzzles like KENKEN on mobile and the web from one codebase.
- Features readers come back for Commenting, newsletters, and sign-in, designed around your own editorial voice.
- Handover built in Your engineers pair with ours and own the code and the IP from the first commit.
How it starts.
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A 30-minute call
Bring the app, the repo if you can share it, and any release or launch date we should know about.
- 02
A written summary
What we heard, what we would do first, who from our side would do it, and an estimate.
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Your team keeps it
You own the code and the IP from the first commit. Your engineers pair with ours.
What media & publishing teams ask before the first call.
Each answer points at work you can read on this site. Anything else, bring it to the first call.
01 Can one codebase cover iOS, Android, and the web for a publisher?
Yes. KENKEN for The New York Times shipped on six platforms from one Flutter codebase and debuted at Google I/O in May 2019 as the first commercial Flutter web app.
02 How fast can we launch a new news app?
Publishers who start from the Flutter News Toolkit spend 80% less time getting to launch. Hespress, the first to use it, launched its new English-language app in six weeks.
03 Do we have to start from scratch?
No. The News Toolkit gives you a working news app with navigation, search, ads, accounts, newsletters, and subscriptions to customize. We can also move an existing native app over one flow at a time.
04 Who owns the app when you are done?
You do. Everything we build is yours, including code, designs, and documentation, and your engineers pair with ours along the way.
Other industries.
- 01 Financial services Customers trust these apps with their money.
- 02 Entertainment The app holds up when the whole audience shows up at once.
- 03 Travel & hospitality Guests who get a plan, not a push.
- 05 Retail & QSR Orders that hold up at the morning rush.
- 06 Automotive Software for the dashboard and the pit box.
We’ll care about your success as much as you do.
Our unicorns read every message and reply, usually the same day.
Start the conversationA 30-minute call about what you’re building.