Flovv - online form-builder with workflows
By Vivek | July 31st, 2007 at 06:24 am ET
With quite a few existing options in the online form-builder space, I don’t really see another startup getting the kinda traction it needs to get going. Frevvo, Coghead, and Wufoo are some of the most compelling options to choose from according to your requirements. And now, Sri Lanka based startup Flovv has it’s own plans around the form-building space.
Flovv comes with all the basics Wufoo and Frevvo offer - quickly assemble forms by adding fields and than deploy the form on your site. The big plus offered by Flovv is the ability to create a multi-page form and define workflows among these forms. So, you can very easily build backend-complex forms by adding validation, branching and conditions.
Having said that, Flovv really really lags on the UI side of things. The interface is least intuitive that I have come across. For instance if you want to deploy the form on your site, you need to remember to activate it first. While I can understand the good intentions of the product team, but it would be much better if the forms are activated by default on creation, and not the other way round. Also there is no easy way to grab the embed code, and the site lacks on it’s own error handling. Hope the Flovv team identifies all these issues, and also gets a blog and a forum to become more user friendly.
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on July 31st, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Hi, great critical feedback, us from the Flovv team really appreciate this input. We believe that we have a good concept going, and a GUI that lags behind with several issues as you say. Some shortcomings (such as the auto activation of forms) will get fixed within the next few days. Other improvements such better error handling though a delegate and the ability to link pages from the page view itself are also in the works… keep tuned!
on August 1st, 2007 at 2:12 am
Workflow based upon an online form is provided by www.formdesk.com and www.theblueform.com.
on August 2nd, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Cool website. I tried out, but didnt quite complete. I may use this in future for any forms related work.
All the best for the flovv team.
on August 3rd, 2007 at 12:33 am
I see lot of future in this flovv.com. I checked it, pretty impressive comparing to its competitors. But they could further improve and I am sure they would.
Good work!
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