riz91

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Mar 23, 2021

I can see a lot of Front-End Developers falling in love with Flow

So I've spent a few days tinkering around with Flow, and I really like it. It's really simple to use, illustrator files play really nice with Flow, and the code it exports is really friendly to use. The resources are pretty solid to get your started with and the Slack community seems really friendly and nice. I think this is one of my favourite deals on Appsumo - it's something I could use everyday and it makes my life a lot easier in terms of building modern web experiences.

One thing that concerns me (I'm sure you keep hearing this) is that the deal is for a plan level that isn't available to direct customers. This concerns me because I've purchased a few deals in the past from Appsumo where the business just stop providing support to that plan leaving you with a tool that eventually becomes obsolete. I really love for the deal to be moved up to Code+ but I totally respect it if it's not possible as long as there's a commitment there for the deal plan to be supported as well as ensuring that the export code is kept to modern workflows.

Overall I really like this deal, it's something I can see a lot of designers praising as it's a much easier way to build modern SVG animations for the web, as well as building animations for iOS.

* Things I would like to have added/improved
- A way to delete keyframes: I can't find a way to delete keyframes from the timeline
- An option to remove the player from HTML at export: I cannot for the life of me find a way to remove the media player from HTML and to have automatically looping animations. Would be nice to have an option to choose at export.
- More prototyping app integrations: I do use Sketch myself, but sometimes I have to use XD - it would be awesome also to have access to a way to connect my XD easily files.
- Text animation: It would be really cool to be able to add text to animate in HTML

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Travis-Flow

Travis-Flow

May 9, 2024

Thanks for the great and honest review.
You've got some great points, here's some answers:

"...as long as there's a commitment there for the deal plan to be supported..."
100% commitment

"...as well as ensuring that the export code is kept to modern workflows..."
Absolutely, all of Flow's exports are based on the same core templates available in this deal. So, any updates to those code exports will definitely be included in this tier.

"A way to delete keyframes"
You should be able to simply select a keyvalue by clicking on it, or by area-selecting multiple keyvalues and hit delete.

"An option to remove the player from HTML"
I should def put up a tutorial for this. In the meantime, you should be able to delete the <div> tag containing the player.

"More prototyping app integrations"
100% agree

"Text animation"
Ok, this is a huge trick because animation APIs all treat text animations differently. But, 100% we will definitely improve typography animation.

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