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Re:Ask HN: What SaaS apps have a great UI ? on Thursday May 13, 2010 @02:28AM (#1343498)
Wow - thank you for the Flowtown love #humbling
Re:Flowtown (early revenue-generating startup) is looking for Master o... on Friday April 02, 2010 @04:25PM (#1237481)
Oh cool, tell him Ethan from Flowtown says hi!
Re:Flowtown (early revenue-generating startup) is looking for Master o... on Friday April 02, 2010 @04:01PM (#1237423)
Christoff? actually it's a full stack prototype on rails...
Re:Flowtown (early revenue-generating startup) is looking for Master o... on Friday April 02, 2010 @03:58PM (#1237407)
We missed the memo :(
Re:Flowtown (early revenue-generating startup) is looking for Master o... on Friday April 02, 2010 @03:35PM (#1237323)
Thanks man! They're out there, just need to find them :-)
Re:How to convert email addresses into name, age, ethnicity, sexual or... on Monday January 04, 2010 @02:49AM (#1029980)
Ah, ok, totally my bad. I had the wrong context around "trick" I thought you were referring to our business and not a potential method we used to uncover social data.

On an totally unrelated note Cassie says "Hi" - I was at her place for one of her roommates bday's and I was on his computer responding to this thread and she's like OMG jfarmer is that who you're talking with... such a small world.

Re:How to convert email addresses into name, age, ethnicity, sexual or... on Monday January 04, 2010 @01:18AM (#1029886)
Yes, if you search an email address in Flowtown the email and the results we discover are stored in your account.
Re:How to convert email addresses into name, age, ethnicity, sexual or... on Monday January 04, 2010 @01:16AM (#1029883)
I'm not sure "trick" is a fair assessment, why do you think it's a trick? We don't scrape Facebook for data, but use a variety of data providers for most of our social information.
Re:How to convert email addresses into name, age, ethnicity, sexual or... on Sunday January 03, 2010 @03:53PM (#1029120)
Thank you for the love Matt ;-)

Businesses that care about their customers / users / clients are the ones that will win in 2010 and beyond. I want to be apart of this future and it's the basis for why @danmartell and I founded Flowtown.

Re:How to convert email addresses into name, age, ethnicity, sexual or... on Sunday January 03, 2010 @03:52PM (#1029116)
Being completely bootstrapped we've been focused on revenue since day 1 and our "trick" of turning emails into social profiles is our minimum monetizable product.

The current iteration of Flowtown is nowhere close to our final vision: helping businesses scale caring.

We launched with an MVP that had even less features than today's iteration (product is just 9 weeks old).

Re:"We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Mint.com on Thursday October 15, 2009 @04:37PM (#884218)
#awesome
Re:"We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Mint.com on Thursday October 15, 2009 @03:41PM (#884104)
Well put. I completely agree. This is something I've previously spent a good deal of time thinking about.
Re:"We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Mint.com on Thursday October 15, 2009 @02:48PM (#883985)
Customer development :)
Re:Sell your product with fake screenshots on Monday October 12, 2009 @11:04PM (#878214)
Awesome case study. Totally what we did with our new pivot (same market B2C Customers - Saas), that is now in the works (didn't do this first time around, and paid for it). Only difference, we told the customer that these were just high fidelity screen mockups for the product we will eventually be building.

Get your screens in front of customers before you ever code. It is mind BLOWING!

Wonder how well this would work for consumer web... thoughts?