We have been very active during summer to prepare everything for the last quarter of this year. Currently we have a few thousand networks (companies, organizations, startups and schools) that are using Flowr to collaborate on daily basis. Positive feedback from users, intensive network growth and our product enthusiasm are our “drive and passion” that motivates us. As a CEO I would like to communicate more and here is a short preview of what we have been doing lately.

Current plan for Q3/Q4

  • New evolved Flowr UI
    We have been listening to our users over the last 3 months since we launched Flowr a lot. Analyzing several different user behaviors, adding the most requested features and removing features that weren’t useful. In next few weeks we will be pushing out new (evolved) Flowr user interface that will be even simpler to use.

  • Flowr Translate System
    There were a lot requests for having Flowr in additional languages and that’s why we have prepared easy to use web interface for translations, that uses standard open source tools (Gettext and Glotpress), but we have modified it with a simple UI to make it even easier to translate Flowr into other languages. Currently we are working on translation for additional 4 European languages, but our original plan is to support all major EU languages by the end of this year. Feel free to contact us if you would like to see Flowr in your language.

  • Flowr HTML5 mobile version & new iPhone version
    Since we all need to be in touch with your team even while we are away, we decided to develop a light version of Flowr that can be accessible via mobile Phones. We know that having a native version for every mobile platform, is the best way to go, but developing good native versions take time. With this first version of Flowr Mobile we will support biggest mobile platforms, but we will be adding additional support for other platforms in the short future. In beginning of September we will also publish an updated version for iPhone users with many improvements and Google Apps sign-in.

  • Flowr API 2.0
    We have worked very hard to develop totally new Flowr API 2.0.  Major change is that we will support only OAuth authentication and our API will be Twitter compatible; that means it will be extremely easy for developers with tools that already talk to Twitter to communicate with Flowr API as well.

  • Performance & Real-time
    Since our networks are growing very fast we will start with major tasks that include Comet support for Real-time communication.

Where do we go from here
We’ll continue to listen to your feedback and shape the product to your needs, but from the mayor development perspective and our operational plan, we will mainly focus our development resources to:

  • work on stability of the product
  • new server infrastructure, that will scale to support our growth in year 2011,
  • adding support for 3rd party apps integration with some popular SAAS applications
  • improve search and recommendation system inside Flowr

From the marketing perspective, we will start with execution of our online marketing / sales strategy. If we would like to grow further, we need to get some rewards for our work. By the end of September we will prepare few pricing packages that will fit mostly for SME, finish PayPal implementation and start with first steps for monetization.

Our mission is still very clear; we would like to help companies increase collaboration and improve information flow, with easy to use tools.

Feel free to give us some feedback.