Day 289: Browserflow Gallery Initial Set

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The Browserflow gallery. I started talking about building it over 9 weeks ago (!!!) but didn’t make meaningful progress towards building it until very recently. It’s surprising and scary that I spent over two months knowing what I need to do but not doing anything about it. Well, it’s finally happening now.

The reason why I think the gallery is critical is due to my hypothesis for how users will discover and adopt Browserflow:

  1. People find a Browserflow solution for a particular use case (e.g. easily add an email to their task tracking app)
  2. They discover other flows via the gallery
  3. They start using pre-made flows regularly
  4. They learn how to build their own flows and share some, which brings more people to step 1

My hope is that I can make building flows so simple that everyone can make it to step 4. Right now, building a flow is pretty easy but not easy enough. There are still places where people might get stuck, and that means that it’s my job to remove those hurdles so that it’s seamless to transition from using flows to editing/creating flows.

Yesterday I couldn’t do anything because I was getting wrecked by allergies all day long, but I did manage to come up with a list of flows I’d like to include in the initial gallery. This is far more than the “three initial flows” that I had in mind, but I’ve already built most of these so it shouldn’t require too much work to create the rest of the flows.

Twitter

  • Export accounts you follow
  • Create private list with accounts in spreadsheet
  • Unfollow all accounts

Facebook

  • Export pages you like
  • Unfollow all pages
  • Unlike all pages

Instagram

  • Export accounts you follow
  • Unfollow all accounts

Google Maps

  • Export place list

Gmail

  • Add email subject and link to Notion TODO page
  • Add email subject and link to Roam TODO page
  • Create filter to label all emails from sender

Facebook Messenger

  • Scroll to top of Messenger thread

Utilities

  • Screenshot Element
  • Screenshot Visible Page
  • Screenshot Full Page
  • Bypass Paywall
  • Highlight banned words