🧠 Introduction
Over the last few weeks, I challenged myself to build something small but complete using Flutter — something useful for developers, students, and indie makers.
The result? Quotify — a minimalist, offline-first quotes app with category filtering, favorites, and dark/light themes — and it’s now available as a source code template on Gumroad.
In this post, I’ll walk you through:
- What I built and why
- Features I included
- How I structured the code
- Where I published it
- What I learned from launching my first digital product
📱 What I Built
Quotify is a clean, responsive quotes app built with Flutter 3.x, designed to be:
- Easy to customize
- Fully offline
- Beautiful in both light & dark modes You can use it as a starting point to build your own quotes, motivation, or learning app — no backend required.
✨ Key Features
Here’s what the app does out of the box:
- ✅ Category Filtering – filter quotes by type (Motivation, Arts, Life, etc.)
- ✅ Favorites Page – save quotes locally with shared_preferences
- ✅ Brick-style Grid – a beautiful Pinterest-style favorites layout
- ✅ Dark & Light Theme Support – auto-switch or manual toggle
- ✅ Local JSON Data – no internet or backend required
- ✅ Smooth UI – scrollable, animated quote cards
Here’s a quick look:
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🧱 Tech Stack - Flutter – core framework
- Provider – for state management
- Shared Preferences – to store favorites offline
- Dart JSON decoding – to load quote data from assets
Folder structure is clean and modular:
lib/
┣ components/
┣ models/
┣ providers/
┣ pages/
┣ theme/
┗ main.dart
🛠 How I Packaged & Published It
I zipped the full source code and added:
- A clear README.md with setup steps
- Organized folders and clean comments
- JSON files + assets
- MIT License (for flexibility) Then I listed it on Gumroad for others to buy, use, or learn from: https://mohamedalisalim.gumroad.com/l/ducap
🚀 What I Learned
Selling is part of learning
Launching this taught me more than just coding — I learned how to present, write copy, and make visuals.
Minimalism sells
I didn’t overcomplicate the app — the simple layout and easy customization were key strengths.Launch > Perfect
Don’t wait until your code is perfect. Release something useful and iterate.
💡 Want to Build Your Own?
If you're learning Flutter, building a mini-app like this is a great way to:
- Practice UI layout and state management
- Learn about offline/local data
- Package a real-world project And if you want to skip the setup, feel free to use my template as a base: 👉https://mohamedalisalim.gumroad.com/l/ducap
🙌 Final Thoughts
Building Quotify was a great experience, and I’m planning to build more mini-app templates. If you’re on the same journey — building in public, learning, or selling code — I’d love to connect!
Let me know what you think, and feel free to ask me anything about Flutter, Gumroad, or launching your own micro-product.
Thanks for reading! ✌️
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