The fast and easy way to build real-time, data-rich apps.
Introducing Flow.

Develop cutting-edge apps in minutes, not months

Building real-time applications from the ground up is difficult, expensive and time-consuming, especially when using streams of information from a wide variety of sources. Until now.

Flow provides an instant solution for any developer interested in building real-time, data-rich apps.

Real-time apps: developed real fast

A lot of systems need to be integrated to make real-time work – messaging, distributed processing, scalability and client push. That’s not an easy problem to solve and no one-stop-shop solution existed. Until now.

Flow offers the only turnkey solution to develop real-time apps real fast.

Why does real-time data matter anyway?

We live in a real-time world. We want our information now, not five minutes from now. The window of relevancy has shrunk while the volume of blogs, articles, tweets and posts keeps increasing. Consumers, craving instant gratification, need apps that deliver relevant information to them immediately in an easily digestible way. (i.e mobile notifications, live update streams, dynamic graphical dashboards, etc). Apps need their users to contribute, comment, share and curate into those streams.

Flow makes creating these real-time streaming experiences seamless and easy.

Real-time data pipes: fast, simple configurations

A real-time app is only as good as the data that flows through it. Aggregating, filtering and processing this data requires considerable time, resources and code. Until now.

Flow gives you configurable "data pipes" to flow data just the way you want using set-it-and-forget-it features we call 'tracks.'

Real-time push: instant solution

Getting new information used to mean polling an application every few minutes for updates. It’s the equivalent of a child in the backseat repeatedly asking its parents "Are we there yet?"

Flow offers an instant solution to push data to applications in real-time via our XMPP API. This way your applications get updates the moment they’re available.

Real-time data sharing: at scale

Today apps use APIs to connect, but developers are limited to having to build and maintain an interface for each connection. If you want to connect 100 or 100,000 apps with similar or related data to share data, APIs can’t connect at scale.

Flow is the only real-time architecture available that enables this kind of permissioned real-time data sharing across the entire application landscape. It’s a real-time data exchange enabling nearly instantaneous and unlimited app interoperability without the hassle, overhead and costs associated with data integration.

Real-world vision

Flow’s vision is the collective sharing of real-time streams across the entire application landscape. We imagine a future where one site or app doesn’t dominate — which is currently the case — but that collections of apps dominate because they help each other. It’s our mission to facilitate the easy, simple and quick development of superior apps that enhance our everyday lives. In other words, killer apps with collaboration we can’t even conceive of. We also intend to support you every step of the way. In a nutshell, we’ve got your back.