Build scalable multi-platform apps quickly
The pace of development is crucial when you’re building a new product. When you increase your pace in the early stages of a project, you can easily shift your team toward more value-added contributions rather than foundational work.
But how do you speed up those early stages without compromising the codebase quality?
Introducing Very Good Start — Very Good Ventures’ (VGV’s) proprietary template for expediting projects while maintaining high standards.
What is Very Good Start?
Very Good Start is based on best practices from our team, taken from years of experience across multiple projects and industries. VGV’s experts have seen what works and what doesn’t — and which viable-seeming approaches collapse at scale. Our Very Good Start offering is accompanied by optional hands-on support from our team to get you started.
Build your foundation based on best practices
When you launch your new application development project with Very Good Start, you’ll unlock benefits that make an immediate impact — and reverberate through the lifespan of your project.
You’ll gain access to:
- A head start on your app foundations, allowing immediate UI and feature work.
- Scalable, Bloc-based architecture built to follow existing best practices.
- A codebase that starts with 100% code coverage to ensure you have a great starting point and code to learn from.
- Effective and work-saving use of automation.
- Scaffold features, including user authentication, logging, localization, kill switch functionality, and force upgrade.
Advanced customization options for every project
Unlike some app development templates that force you into one way of working or make your team perform the heavy lifting of customization, Very Good Start isn’t a one-size-fits-all experience.
Very Good Start uses the latest version of Flutter and all related packages, so your starting point is always up to date and optimally compatible. It also uses the Widgetbook UI package, letting the UI design team review implementations before the app runs on a device.
If your company’s preferred service or requirement isn’t available by default, simply ask about it. The Very Good Ventures team is always interested in adding new options for your business.
When the Very Good Ventures team generates your Very Good Start codebase, you can specify your choice of:
- Development Platform: GitHub, GitLab
- Authentication Platform: Firebase, Supabase
- Analytics Platform: Firebase, Sentry
- Monitoring Platform: Crashlytics
- Deployment Platform: iOS, Android, macOS, Web, Windows
Successful projects launched with Very Good Start
The results of Very Good Start projects speak for themselves. Here are some of the many successful projects we’ve launched.
Large-scale replatforming project for food chain
A major food and beverage chain used Very Good Start for its new app and replatforming efforts with a goal of a production release to users in less than six months. The development effort was primarily focused on a new mobile order flow for physical locations, which required bringing over features like login, account settings, and other basic user functionality.
With Very Good Start, VGV provided these features out of the box. The development team also got a head start on feature development, which meant that they could meet their accelerated deadline. With Very Good Start, they shaved one month off their development timelines, allowing the team to kickstart the main feature development and knock out critical business requirements.
Companion app for Hamilton on Broadway
The companion app for the Broadway smash Hamilton was one of the first large-scale commercial Flutter applications. In 2021, the team behind the production wanted to revamp the app’s UI experience and add new features.
By bootstrapping the reimplementation with Very Good Start, two developers rewrote the app in six months despite the three years of features and growth that had gone into it. Very Good Start gave them the needed architecture out of the box.
Get a head start on critical Flutter projects
Turning your app concept into a finished product has never been a lighter lift for your internal team.
With Very Good Start, we handle all the laborious groundwork-laying functions — all based on industry best practices and hard-won knowledge. The resulting codebase is customized to meet your needs, and the scalable, multi-platform framework is set up to serve your specific audience.
All of this work is future-proof and sturdy enough to evolve with your business. The sooner you begin your app project, the faster you can get results.
The Very Good Ventures team would love to talk about your requirements. Schedule time to chat today and let’s get started!
