[HN Gopher] Wireflow - free, online, open source tool for creati...
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       Wireflow - free, online, open source tool for creating user-flow
       prototypes
        
       Author : Brajeshwar
       Score  : 177 points
       Date   : 2023-12-20 15:55 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (wireflow.co)
 (TXT) w3m dump (wireflow.co)
        
       | dominick-cc wrote:
       | I'm having trouble loading the webpage
        
       | reichardt wrote:
       | Looks awesome! The YouTube video linked inside the GitHub README
       | seems to be unavailable: https://youtu.be/zm0XbLmXtXY Would love
       | to see an up-to-date demo video.
        
       | xet7 wrote:
       | What has happened? Has some other news raised more interest in
       | this project?
        
       | hbcondo714 wrote:
       | At first glance, this looks useful but is it being maintained?
       | Their main branch on GitHub hasn't been updated in years:
       | https://github.com/vanila-io/wireflow
        
         | xet7 wrote:
         | 1. Originally, Wireflow was made with Meteor, when there was a
         | way to save data.
         | 
         | 2. Then there was a rewrite with React, but not yet a way to
         | save data.
         | 
         | 3. Then maintainers did have some other projects where they did
         | spend most of their time.
         | 
         | That brings my questions, are some interested in this kind of
         | tool? Would some like to contribute more to Wireflow? Has some
         | news about other similar tools bring more interest to have
         | Wireflow maintained even better?
         | 
         | Just thinking, as one of the maintainers of Wireflow.
        
           | simulo wrote:
           | You could ask for feedback on
           | https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/ where quite some UX
           | designers in open source projects hang out. I personally
           | remember nokias flowella fondly, but I do not know if it does
           | the same as wireflow.
        
           | debarshri wrote:
           | I had contributed the Dockerfile to the project when it was
           | last posted in HN.
           | 
           | Friendly maintainers but I think being built by an App
           | development studio, I can imagine they have different
           | priorities.
        
           | highmastdon wrote:
           | I'm a heavy user of excalidraw. I wonder if it would be
           | possible to extend something like that to add "flow" design.
           | It could be as simple as defining the dotted arrow as the
           | view direction, ie. when an element is clicked, show this
           | bounding box, where the dotted bounding box is used to zoom
           | to that level.
        
           | haolez wrote:
           | On a side note, Meteor always seems like a good idea at the
           | beginning, but I see lots of projects failing with it. It's
           | unfortunate.
        
       | CyberDildonics wrote:
       | What is a user-flow prototype?
        
         | thoughtpalette wrote:
         | All the steps it takes a User to accomplish an action. Usually
         | low fidelity (wireframes vs finished designs). The prototype
         | part I'd assume means you can click through it (like Figma
         | prototypes).
         | 
         | E.g. Login Form. Could should initial state -> error state ->
         | submitting state -> success state. Could be a "User Login
         | flow".
        
       | dalore wrote:
       | > It have built in live chat which give you ability to
       | communicate with your team mate and still be in the same app
       | while you collaborating in real-time.
       | 
       | Not to be the grammar tsar, but if anyone from there is reading
       | this it could do with a little fixing.
        
       | tomgs wrote:
       | Small typo: it says permisions instead of permissions in the
       | feature sidebar
        
       | lfmunoz4 wrote:
       | Anyone know of a similar project but written in VueJs?
        
       | gervwyk wrote:
       | What tools are others using to build these wireflows? We find
       | figma too detailed and mockup does not quite get us there (not
       | sure why).
       | 
       | Any recommendations?
        
         | cebu wrote:
         | excalidraw is my go to for that in-between
        
         | keerthiko wrote:
         | I have no trouble using Figjam for this, or just figma but
         | borrowing the arrow connector objects from Figjam
        
           | staplers wrote:
           | Figma isn't ugly enough for developers to want to use. /s
        
         | baoluofu wrote:
         | I find balsamiq is quite easy to get to grips with. My biggest
         | complaint (at least for the desktop app, haven't tried the
         | cloud version) is the lack of an "infinite" canvas.
        
         | neeleshs wrote:
         | I use balsamiq for both flows and UX "paper" prototypes. My
         | only gripe is not being able to easily re-use groups of
         | controls
        
       | lxe wrote:
       | I clicked and started drawing. Can export as image. No logins, no
       | signups. What a delight.
        
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