The personal disquiet of

Mark Boulton

February 19th, 2007

What is up with Flow?

I’ve had a few people over the past months con­tact me and ask what has been hap­pen­ing with Flow Well, we’re still work­ing on it, but as one of the developers, Keeran, states on his blog:

While it is achiev­able to ship new products in a short amount of time, as we have seen with com­pan­ies like 37Signals and Car­son Sys­tems, there are always going to be times, cer­tainly in the early stages, where Real Paid Work must take priority.

Damn right, espe­cially for a busi­ness which is only six months old. 

Since return­ing from snow­board­ing a month ago, I’ve been con­sumed with Real Work and everything else, includ­ing the book, has been put to one side. Such is life and, as I’m learn­ing, business. 

That said, Flow is com­ing along and as I’m writ­ing this, I’m work­ing on the tem­plates whilst a couple of guys at Bean­lo­gic are work­ing on the backend. It’s com­ing along. Slowly but surely.

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11 Responses to “What is up with Flow?”

  1. Achtentachtig said on: February 19th, 2007 at 7:56 am

    Great to hear that you guys didn’t give up on it. I recog­nize the prob­lem. I’m work­ing on an own pro­ject too with some people, next to my design stu­dio. But all the time paid design jobs get priority…it’s a shame.

  2. Alun Rowe said on: February 19th, 2007 at 8:05 am

    I’ve got about 5 pro­jects that I want to develop for myself but cli­ents keep pay­ing me to ignore them… 

    Of course if I had a great book on design then I’d get through my work­load faster ;)

  3. David Horn said on: February 19th, 2007 at 8:51 am

    great — glad it’s still in the pipeline … look­ing for­ward to it.  Whatever you do, don’t drop it entirely!

  4. Indranil said on: February 19th, 2007 at 10:02 am

    I under­stand exactly what you mean! 

    Real Work has an uncanny abil­ity to pull you away from a pro­ject you’re work­ing on. I’ve been put­ting off a site restruc­tur­ing for about 2 months now, thanks to Real Work. Of course, as long as it pays the bills.. ;-) 

    But I’m really look­ing for­ward to get Flow-ing.. :-)

  5. Owen Gregory said on: February 20th, 2007 at 7:57 am

    Glad to hear some news about Flow. And happy that you’re keep­ing the wolf from the door so that you keep it tick­ing over! I’m sure it’ll be a great product and worth the wait.

  6. Zach Katkin said on: February 21st, 2007 at 7:57 am

    Glad to see you didn’t give up on it. I can’t wait to try it out? Will we be get­ting any sneak pre­views or screen shots? Also, when is five steps com­ing out?

  7. Steve said on: February 22nd, 2007 at 7:58 pm

    I know the feel­ing. The false sense of secur­ity that Real Work brings tends to be addict­ive and has kept me from com­plet­ing pro­jects more often than not. 

    On a slightly unre­lated note, I love the design for this site, well done! Beau­ti­fully min­imal with excel­lent color use.

  8. Julian Schrader said on: February 25th, 2007 at 11:32 am

    I’m look­ing for­ward to it as well — excited to hear news about it.

  9. Graham Smith said on: February 26th, 2007 at 2:46 am

    I am not a web guru, or CSS coder. I am a Graphic Designer with pho­to­graphic tendancies. 

    I just wanted to say, that whilst I have been Blog­ging, look­ing at the huge amount of Blogs out there, from a design and typo­graphic perspective… 

    Your Blog/Site is one of the clean­est, nicest, styl­ish I have seen. It is a joy to look at, easy to read and navigate. 

    I am glad the black/green is a good com­bin­a­tion, as I have recently changed my color pal­let on my rather anti­quated Type­pad blog. I get so frus­trated with its lack of flex­ib­il­ity, plus my inab­il­ity to design and con­struct what I know I can achieve had I the cod­ing skills. Instead I have to accept the lim­it­a­tion of my skills and have a site that to me, stinks. I am a per­fec­tion­ist, and when I can­not be in con­trol of design then I suffer.

    I am look­ing to com­bat this, by learn­ing CSS and also mov­ing to the WordPress.org plat­from which I am hop­ing will allow me much greater flexibility. 

    I would very much like to how­ever, start learn­ing from a tem­plate that is close to being what I envis­age. Enabling me to tinker and look at the struc­ture, i prefer learn­ing this way. 

    I have also looked at Expres­sion­En­gine, but feel I will be totally over­whelmed with the learn­ing curve. 

    I will be in con­tact soon, as I would like to ask you if as part of your ser­vices, you offer a sort of template-instant Blog design ser­vice which I would love you to do as you clearly have a superb talent. 

    Im sure praise is always welcome…

  10. Gabs said on: March 1st, 2007 at 2:29 am

    Glad to hear it.. 

    Snow bor­d­ing again :D 

    Did you have snow? 

    I went in Jan with not much snow :(

  11. timfm said on: March 2nd, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    I noticed you linked to Billings 2. It looks like a nice app. Will Flow be com­par­able / do all that?

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