Flowstate
A writing app that deletes everything if you stop typing
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Jesse Ditson

Flowstate - A writing app that deletes everything if you stop typing

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Ryan Hoover
This could be very useful for those honing their writing skills, forcing one to write freely. Really neat idea.
Natanael Espinosa
@rrhoover Exactly what I was thinking. Writer's block will hit you eventually. But overall, great idea!
Lucas Lindsey
Well this seems stressful. Gloriously wonderfully stressful.
Lucas Grohn
@urbnist Same! Read the description and immediately got sweaty palms.
Logan Nickleson
@urbnist Agreed! I guess it would be useful for brainstorming/thought-dumping purposes—just to get the words out. But man, the anxiety!
Samir Doshi
@urbnist That's so true --- and I guess the main point
Jesse Ditson
Hunter
Mostly hunted this because it belongs in my "unnecessary" collection - but also I'm interested to see what people think. Useful or a complete waste of engineering resources?
Faizan Patankar
@jesseditson Like your Unnecessary collection :) https://www.producthunt.com/@jes...
Niels de Hoog
Wonderful idea. I'd love to try this, but not sure I want to spend $14,99 on it when I don't know if I'd actually use it.
Caleb Slain
Maker
@nielsify Follow your heart. Also you can request a refund from Apple if it's bollocks.
Niels de Hoog
@calebslain Haha, fair enough.
Manu Ebert
@nielsify Try http://themostdangerouswritingap..., which is the same idea, but free.
Caleb Slain
Maker
I've been using Flowstate for almost all of my writing/directing work the past three years. Very excited to finally share it with everyone. If you have any questions about it, hit me. Otherwise, here's a mysterious and arguably unhelpful ad we just released: https://vimeo.com/calebslain/flo... <3
Marcus Vorwaller
@calebslain that is the best teaser I've ever seen for an app. Very nicely done.
Caleb Slain
Maker
@zzzmarcus Arigatou gozaimasu!
Jack Sitt
My old english teacher would love this lol. She used to have us sit down and type non-stop (even if we weren't thinking of anything useful) because it helps foster creative thoughts.
Caleb Slain
Maker
@jacksitt Super dope. Inspiring. We find Flowstate to be a somewhat spiritual piece of software.
Salomé Bidaux
This is great! For a Innovation and Design Thinking class we were asked to brainstorm on innovative ways to prevent procrastination and/or interruptions - this idea came up. Really excited to see it come to life.
Steven Rueter
I love the idea, but the $9.99 price point is a little steep...
Joe Blau
@rueter $14.99 for the OS X version.
Donny Reynolds
@rueter I wish there were some sort of trial version we can use...
K R
I just had an anxiety attack watching the examples on your site. Can you tweak the 5 seconds or is that a permanent setting?
Caleb Slain
Maker
@kenrossi The exact value of seconds to nothing (STN) was honed over years of testing, and will remain adamantine for the foreseeable future. Thankfully there are other things to tweak, such as flow session length, choice of font, and the patience of Uber drivers.
Ryan Leys
File this under the category of things that seem super cool that I am to terrified to ever actually use myself, right next to hang gliders.
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