Since then, we’ve gotten tons of feedback and have been impressed by the wide variety of workflows people have built on Flowdash. We originally expected to see a few common usage patterns emerge from early users, but were surprised by how different everyone's use case is. Despite being different, the common thread is having a queue of tasks that need to be moved by people through a pipeline. That motivated us to continue making the platform customizable enough for people to build their unique workflows.
Another big learning (obvious in hindsight?) was how hard it gets to maintain a complex workflow without a visual editor. It's not uncommon to see workflows with 10+ stages. We’ve been hard at work taking all the feedback, and I’m excited to share our latest iteration with HN.
While the product evolved, our thesis hasn't changed. We believe operations teams are critical to many companies, yet tend to be underserved when it comes to the tools they use. The choices are either hacking things through spreadsheets, Notion, Airtable, Zapier, Slack, etc... Or investing a lot of time building and maintaining internal tools.
We created Flowdash specifically to offer the best of both worlds. You can build powerful workflows in minutes and without code, but they can be further customized through built-in blocks (i.e. widgets) and API integrations.
Here's a quick demo video where I build a basic content moderation workflow in a few minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAE8ePk0qa0
We also opened up sign-ups if you want to try it out. Excited to hear what you think!