Show HN: Celest – Flutter Cloud Platform

📰 Hacker News · dillonnys

Hi HN! I’m Dillon, the founder of Celest ( https://celest.dev ). Celest is a backend-as-a-service that lets you build full-stack Flutter and Dart apps without leaving your IDE. There’s a short demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evs1f0zHpzk At AWS, I built the Amplify Flutter framework and saw the extraordinary power (and complexity) the modern cloud presents. I wore many hats in that role, but the hat I most disliked was devops. I just wanted to write my business logic and have it work. As a Flutter developer, I love writing Dart, and I want to use it everywhere. But in order to do so today, it requires stringing together Docker, Terraform and a healthy dose of cloud expertise to make it work. I built Celest so that I never have to use anything but Dart in my backends, and so other Flutter developers won’t either! Celest brings infrastructure-from-code to Dart in a way that’s fun to write. Cloud functions are just top-level Dart functions and the

Published 1 Apr 2024
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