(For context I’m a senior dev at a company with maybe 500+ software devs, but very few mobile devs.)
App development is difficult. First thing I’d recommend, regardless of the way you pick, is to very clearly define each page of the app. Do full mock ups. Figure out every possible interaction and requirement. After that you’re ready start evaluating the next step.
I don’t know what kind of time/resources/disposition you have but software development is often tedious and complicated. I’d recommend trying out a basic tutorial on mobile app development to see how you feel about it. The team I work on uses React Native for an app and whenever someone has to work on it the general sentiment is “good luck”.
Mobile dev is more complicated than web development because it is going into two different eco systems. I’ve never worked in flutter, so maybe it’s easier but I’m betting there are similar pain levels.
With that said, AI has helped some people with more determination than skill get things like this built but an EXPERIENCED dev is worth their cost.
Of course, the trick is figuring out just who is experienced and how experienced they are.
A lot of good thoughts on this post, would be interested to hear how your experience progresses.
As a fully remote employee I feel all of this. Have you ever listened to the founder of Automattic’s podcast, “Distributed”? It has some good thoughts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/distributed-with-matt-mullenweg/id1463243282?i=1000614616984