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Flowdock Launches Avec New Screencast

Mikael Roos November 10th, 2010

Flowdock is now launched and live. Check out the Plans & Pricing for details.

There’s one more thing: a new screencast. Our new screencast showcases how incredibly light-weight and efficient our own workflow is here at Team Flowdock. Flowdock is the most advanced team messenger precisely because of this – it becomes part of your team’s daily workflow, streamlining and boosting it in a big way.

Flowdock Featured in TechCrunch

After the launch earlier today, TechCrunch published a great article about us, entitled Collaboration software Flowdock exits Beta with its Evernote-for-conversations written by Steve O’Hear. Earlier today, Antti Vilpponen from ArcticStartup wrote another great piece on us. We thank the authors.

What’s Next?

We have a whole lot of new stuff in the pipelines. If you want to have a say, what comes next, go to our Uservoice page, and have a vote.

Some of the things you can expect from us in the future includes:

  • Deletion features. It sounds perhaps odd, but different deleting features are some of the most requested ones.
  • Full-text seach. The most requested feature in Uservoice.
  • More advanced API. Specific integrations: The previous Git/GitHub integration gave us a pretty good idea, what the API should look like. Next is possibly Pivotal Tracker and Jira. What integrations would you like to see? Also an open API for developers to integrate on is in the works.

 

More about these later. Stay tuned!

Flowdock Launches Into Full Steam

Mikael Roos November 9th, 2010

Flowdock, the most advanced team messenger, will enter production mode tomorrow, November 10th, 2010 and become a paid service. Flowdock will be a software-as-a-service with monthly subscriptions in four different plans.

Flowdock Pricing

All beta user accounts will get a 30-days extended trial subscription with the plan that suits them best. During that time payments can be set up by accessing the Account page. After the trial subscription expires, a paid subscription will be required to continue the use of Flowdock.

What’s new?

Add Existing Users

Invite Screen

Check out the new People Button button in your Flow. In addition to inviting entirely new users to a flow, you can easily add existing users. And when you invite new users, you get to define a customized message when you so wish.

Subscription Section If someone has lost their invite, you can re-invite them at the click of a button. Ever accidentally sent an invite to the wrong address? Cancelling an invite is one click, too. The section titled “Subscription” tells you information about your plan, e.g. how many users you can still invite before you need to upgrade.

User List In People mode, the user list auto-expands and enriches itself. It shows you which users are admins, and gives you little cross-shaped buttons which you use to remove people from the flow.

New Privacy Policy

As we begin charging for the use of Flowdock , we have revised our Privacy Policy. The whole document has been overhauled to ensure the safety and privacy of your data. The new privacy policy will be rolled out with the launch and will be accessible at http://www.flowdock.com/privacy

Stay tuned for tomorrow!

Flowdock Launches Public Beta

Mikael Roos March 10th, 2010

Teamwork needs work. With Flowdock, it’s as simple as having a chat.
Flowdock keeps your team organized and up-to-date with no effort.
It is a powerful team messenger web app.

The biggest day so far is upon us. We Shipped! Right now anybody can march to www.flowdock.com, click the ‘Sign Up for Beta‘ button and start accelerating their team. The hordes of new users gave us some server trouble and signup is now temporarily disabled.

Public Beta Open

A total of 650 teams from all over the world took part in Private Beta, and we got tons of feedback. Here’s what some have said about Flowdock.

“It’s what Google Wave should have been”

Flowdock Quotes

If you want to see more, just see what people are saying about Flowdock on Twitter.

The Genius

During the past few days we’ve shown some awesome uses for Flowdock. Here’s a quick recap.

Minimalist Meetings

Teamwork needs work. Flowdock attempts to minimize the amount of that work.

TODOs are conversation

These days there’s about a zillion ways to manage TODOs online. With Flowdock, the unique
aspect is that you can handle them right in the middle of the conversation.

Agile Development with Flowdock

As an agile software development shop, we test extensively and practice continuous integration.

Handle feedback with Flowdock

How to be as responsive and communicative as possible towards your users.

Track your brands with Flowdock

Make your team act as a single unit in tracking, creating, molding,
protecting and generally managing your brand.

Flowdock Public Beta to launch

Mikael Roos March 1st, 2010

Flowdock was built to be the best group messenger in the world. It must be true, because it says so right on the About page of our new web page! That’s right, we’ve launched our website at www.flowdock.com and in ten days on March 10th, we’ll launch Flowdock to open public beta.

The new version of Flowdock has just been deployed and the 500 companies participating in private beta are already using it.

Here are some highlights of new stuff.

All those flows

Up till now, we’ve wanted to fine tune and get all the customer feedback on the user interface of the flow user experience, so we didn’t even provide anything else in private beta. However, Flowdock is not about only the one flow. You need to use different workspaces for different projects. Here is the new view for that, which we’ve endearingly named “My Flows”

Flowdock - My Flows

Tour

We’ve added a tour to the web page. There’s already a few use cases on it, and we’ll be adding more as we get closer to the public beta launch. Here’s one such case demonstrating how a law firm uses Flowdock to collect various kinds of information about their competitors and clientele.

Flowdock - Tour case