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I think this app is excellent, both in its idea, its (brief) presentation and what it promises to become, but the execution could use some work for now...

Random concerns that I have, assuming you want this to grow into a big, comprehensive UX flow database:

- There shouldn't be a search if I can only select from existing content and can't actually search, a dropdown would do fine for now.

- If you're to keep the search bar, at least add a friendly fail message when I search for something that isn't listed, like "No results, but take a look at what we have here instead!"

- How do you plan to scale? User submitted screenshots? Scraping the app store and providing a means for users to tag flows themselves? Ideally this needs a clever system that scales independently of the work you put into maintaining it...

- Speaking of tags, you should add a tagging system for each flow anyways since there's a variety of names people will use to refer to those things, and this would help with the search a lot.

Anyways, don't get me wrong, I like the idea and I want to see it grow beyond just a demo into something really useful. I merely think that, as a UX person, this has room for improvement, so keep up the good work and keep on iterating!



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