Codelessly
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- Platform:
Web - Language & Framwork:
Flutter (Dart) - Web App: Codelessly{:target=“_blank”}
- Website: codelessly.com{:target=“_blank”}
About
Codelessly is a Flutter-first platform for building real apps without hand-writing UI code. It began as a Figma-style visual editor that compiles designs into production Flutter for web, mobile, and desktop, and has since grown into Codelessly AI — an agent that designs, builds, previews, and ships complete Flutter apps straight from a prompt. I’ve been one of the core engineers across both eras, owning the front-end architecture and the backend that runs it.
Codelessly AI
January 2025 – Present
An AI app builder — an agent that designs, builds, previews, and ships production Flutter apps for web, mobile, and desktop from a prompt. As one of just two core engineers under the founder, I’m entrusted with end-to-end development of the product.
- Led the initial architecture and front-end build from MVP, and designed a single codebase that powers desktop, web, and fully-remote (cloud) modes — cutting tech debt and making every new feature faster to ship.
- Architect, implement, and own the entire backend — a fleet of Dart servers, reverse proxies, and CI/CD pipelines — and built custom live-monitoring dashboards (servers, sessions, live logs, uptime, versions, updates) that cut debugging and investigation time 70%; automated setup scripts spin up new servers 3× faster.
- Built the on-demand app-preview engine that launches a live Flutter server for every user and routes it to the internet — scaling theoretical capacity from 65K to 200K sessions — and tuned global CDN caching to take first loads from 1–2 min to ~30s (2× faster) and return loads from 60s to 10s (6× faster).
- Built advanced web-based mobile simulators (theming, safe areas, live code injection for a native feel) plus a companion mobile app with QR scanning and deep linking for edge-to-edge, on-device preview — essentially “Expo Go, but for Flutter.”
- Architected 10+ OAuth integrations giving users one-click preview hosting and deployment to Vercel, Netlify, Firebase Hosting, and GitHub Pages, plus Codemagic CI/CD to build and release mobile apps for Android & iOS.
- Designed the tools that let the AI act on the user’s behalf — asking questions, requesting permissions on demand, using integrations and dev tooling, and handling media via clipboard, drag-and-drop, and file selection.
- Made the experience fast and resilient: 3× less network traffic (Protocol Buffers + granular updates), 2× faster project loads with 60% less storage, resumable remote sessions with full lifecycle management, and snapshot-based undo/rollback.
Codelessly Editor & SDKs
July 2021 – January 2025
A no-code, Figma-style builder that lets anyone design apps visually and publish them as live Flutter apps via an SDK. Built entirely in Flutter, with freeform drag-and-drop, auto layouts, constraints, and responsive layout groups and breakpoints — plus a built-in API playground, code generation, an embedded preview emulator, a cloud database, and rich variables and conditions for building complex apps.
- Spearheaded the editor’s architecture and front-end build from the MVP, owning individual components, design, and development.
- Single-handedly designed and built the Variables & Conditions system — the visual tools that let non-coders add business logic, app states, and dynamic data to their designs — plus the runtime that executes it in published apps.
- Single-handedly built a full Postman-style API playground in the editor, letting users wire live APIs into their apps with dynamic variables (and web proxies to make it work in the browser).
- Designed and built the Components & Variants system — Figma-style reusable components that auto-update everywhere, and variants that switch a design’s layout or state based on logic.
- Led the built-in user database and single-handedly built its management UI — both a NoSQL document view and a spreadsheet-style table view over Firebase Firestore — so users can power apps with their own data.
- Led the design→Flutter code-generation engine with automatic code-cleanup, lifting generated code quality ~70% to match human-written code, plus GitHub integration for version control and automatic preview deployments.
- Led core SDK projects and shaped their public API, extending the SDK for server-driven UI (Cloud UI) with embedded logic and live previews.
- Elevated the editor canvas — Figma-like move/resize, drag-and-drop, cross-project copy-paste, an interactive actions system, custom color pickers and image-cropping tools, and shared asset/component libraries.
- Built and maintained the embedded preview emulator and the underlying preview rendering system.
- Helped ship the widget library and a library of 80+ SaaS components, an IDE-like auto-complete for variables and conditions, and the fonts and asset management systems.
- Helped build the new-user onboarding flow and integrate payments and subscriptions.
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