Seventy-three Flutter apps, and the eight I keep showing people

I graded all of them at night, and these kept me awake

Seventy-three Flutter final projects came in across my two Applications Development sections this semester. That number is a snapshot of what I graded, and mostly it means a lot of late evenings.

Here is the confession. I expected the usual finals pile, a lot of to-do lists in slightly different colors. What I got instead were apps I opened twice. Not to check a rubric, but because I wanted to see the next screen.

The brief was the same for everyone: build a real app for a real person, ship it publicly, write down how you used AI, and make a square image you would be proud to post. The square was my idea. Seeing them all in a row was the moment I realized the semester had worked.

The fundamentals are what make the tool a multiplier. These students did the fundamentals.

So this is a thank-you, in public. Each card below opens a page for that project, with screenshots, what it does in the student's own words, and where to find them. Click around. Several of these are better than apps I have paid for.

The apps

Love My ClosetA digital wardrobe for people who own plenty of clothes and keep wearing the same five. By @sofiademesa.

VivariAquarium care for people who keep more than one tank. By @vvnrzn.

Reaction ChainThe Chain Reaction board game, rebuilt in Flutter for local multiplayer. By @enetwarch.

ShelfInventory for a shared equipment room: what is there, where it lives, and who borrowed it. By @28BEANS.

TrivetA weekly balance tracker for work, health and leisure. By @Keonzane.

NookNever lose a travel find again: saves from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, turned into an itinerary. By @alyencs.

MomentumA study planner: tasks, events, focus sessions and calendar imports in one place. By @asm0git.

BahantabayCommunity flood reports and route warnings for commuters around Angeles City. By @Allen021006.

What I am taking into next semester

The best projects were not the biggest. They were the ones that picked a person and a problem and refused to wander off. I will be saying that to the next batch on day one, and pointing them here.

To the students on this page: thank you for letting me show your work. I learned something from every one of these, and I mean that in the boring, literal sense of opening your code and going huh, that is a better way to do it.

The judgment is human. The typing, by design, is not.