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I can not, for the life of me, tell what this is from the website. The video seems like a parody from the HBO's Silicon Valley show. I even clicked through to the app http://app.flowhub.io/ which wants me to log in and then clicked on the "Docs" Button and finally got to this:

Flowhub is a web-based IDE for flow-based programming. It is built on NoFlo.js for both client and server. It can connect to any language or environment that can talk the FBP Network Protocol.

Which is kind of nonsense unless I'm already clear what "flow-based programming" was. Which I wasn't until I google'd that. Maybe its me. It seems if you're going to promote a new tool with for a obscureish programming paradigm you might want to explain the paradigm as well.

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> I can not, for the life of me, tell what this is from the website.

This makes me feel a little better. I couldn't tell what this is, either.

I scrolled all the way down and eventually found a FAQ link that helps: http://flowhub.io/documentation/flowhub-faq/

May be worth putting that somewhere more prominent.

Similar. I watched the video, read all the copy too, which I usually wouldn't do. Sucks these things are hard to fix on announcement day...

Would this help too? http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-kickstarter-launch/ (from back when it was still called NoFlo UI)

You're not the only one who had no clue. I still don't. I watched the video. I made this comment. And I'm not wasting another second of my time on flowhub..

You're not alone. Even the wikipedia page on flow-based programming doesn't help me much.

I'd love to see something like todomvc implemented with this, to give it some grounding.

An implementation of TodoMVC is really a good idea! There is already a (re)implementation of Jekyll using NoFlo that you might find interesting: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-jekyll/

Not to mention the app itself seems very broken. I think they're in much to early a stage to launch a public "beta."

We built on Polymer, so that imposes quite strict browser requirements. See http://flowhub.io/documentation/flowhub-faq/#browser-require...

However, if you're having one of the supported browsers and still have problems, we'd love a ticket at https://github.com/noflo/noflo-ui/issues

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