Flowly

Flowly didn’t start as a product — it started as a frustration. The task managers we tried were either paid subscriptions for the features we needed long-term, or free tools that just didn’t work the way we wanted.

So I built it for us — as both the user who lives in the tool every day and the engineer who can fix exactly what annoys him.

At its core it’s a Kanban board you can shape freely, then a whole layer of the things teams actually reach for once the board fills up.

I wired in an AI assistant — backed by multiple model APIs — that reads your real project data. So you can ask “what’s overdue?”, “summarise this project”, or just tell it to create and move tasks in plain language.

It turns the board from something you manage into something you can talk to.

Building it, I had the feeling it was sellable — so I built it like a real product, not a toy. A subscription SaaS for direct users, plus an integration layer so other businesses can drop Flowly’s task management into their own apps.

Three integration paths, all low-effort for the integrating developer: a REST API with scoped keys, event webhooks, and an embeddable widget.

React + TypeScript on the front, Node/Express + MongoDB + Socket.io behind it, Stripe for billing, Resend for email, and a job scheduler driving reminders and digests.

It’s live and in active development — I keep adding features as both a daily user and the engineer, with the architecture already laid for analytics, mobile and more.