Flooha support forums now open
We’re happy to announce the opening of the Flooha support forums. Although it’s quite empty now, we hope to establish a thriving community where users and developers can help each other improve the software and websites built by Flooha.com.
Flooha is in beta status right now and basically that means that everything isn’t quite perfect yet and we’re trying to get as much use and feedback of the system that we can. It’s entirely possible that we’ve focused on the wrong features and we’re relying on you to tell us what you’d like to see.
So please sign up for the forums and let us know what you’re thinking about Flooha, no matter if it is good or bad. If we’ve got something terribly wrong and you know it, please tell us! Don’t be shy. We won’t bite, I promise. 
Our only goal is to make life easier and better for software developers and the people who use their software.
Also, if you have suggestions for forums to create like “Search Engine Optimization” or “Google Adwords”, please let us know and we will try to accommodate you. We want the forums to be as helpful as possible.
OK, so what are you waiting for? Go sign up!
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We’ve been verbed!
Yesterday, Manoli sent an email to Juan Diego Polo, Co-founder of PoolDigital and editor of WWwhatsnew.com, one of the most visited blogs in Spanish about technology. She asked him if he would be interested in presenting Flooha.com as part of our launch. Juan was very excited about our new service and he blogged about it on WWwhatsnew.com.
The best part was the last sentence when he said “¿Quién necesita programar cuando se puede, simplemente Floohar?.”, which translates to “Who needs to program when you can simply Flooha?”. So, it’s official, we’ve been verbed!
Thanks Juan, you are officially the first person to use the verb “floohar” (to flooha), contratulations! 
Hacker News Love
The launch yesterday went great! We posted up on Hacker News, asking for our fellow hackers to review Flooha. We recieved a great majority of positive comments and a few that were fantastic. The only negativity came from the “kick-ass” part of our tag-line. We’re not in a hurry to change it since we think Flooha is pretty damn kick-ass and, although we are 100% serious about our business, we still want to inject a little light-heartedness into our business.
For those of you considering a “Review my app” post on HN, here are some results from our little experiment.
In the 24 hour period after the post we received:
- 1698 unique hits
- 7102 page views
- 917 uniques who only looked at the index page. (1 page view)
- 117 uniques with > 10 page views.
- 29 registered users
- 24 packages built
- 17 custom websites created
- 214 YouTube views (video tour)
- 1 application error*
- 0 melted web servers
* The user started a project, opened a new tab, deleted the project in tab2 and then tried to build it in tab1. We’re going to call that a “User Error” LOL We did add some code to handle it better though.
Not bad for day 1! It’s funny how some users seem to have registered just to grab an interesting name, most notably “heaven” and “earth”. We hope that Flooha can be a small slice of heaven and earth for some people. 
For those of you out there who want to grab a cool name before someone else does, you better hurry up!
We’ll be trying to get some more coverage this week from various startup websites and bloggers, so please digg us or stumble us or use whatever means you have to get the word out. If you like to get notified when our Premium Web Hosting Accounts are available, you can sign up for our waiting list here. Thanks for all the interest and well wishes.
Flooha beta officially launched!
After a lot of hard work, time and dedication, I’m very proud to announce the official lanuch of Flooha.com.
Our goal is to bring happiness to you by making the process of building your website an enjoyable and pain-free experience. We know how difficult and frustrating it can be for users to customize software to meet their needs. The internet is filled with forum posts of users pleading for help, desperate for an answer to a problem they are having with their website software. Whether it is how to correctly modify a file, how to set file permissions, or some other configuration issue, we see users encountering the same problems again and again no matter what app they are using.
Our solution to this problem is Flooha.com. We’ve made the process of building and installing customized website software as easy as surfing the web. You can choose an app and add-ons in much the same way you would shop for products online. Just point and click to add them to your project and click the magic “Build it” button when you’re done. OK, maybe it’s not magic, but if you’ve ever spent a significant amount of time customizing your website, it will seem like magic. It doesn’t even matter if the add-ons you select all modify the same file, Flooha will do it’s best to make the changes correctly, saving you a lot of time and headaches.
Everyone is free to build customized software packages on Flooha.com, no registration required. All of the apps and add-ons we currently offer are open source and you are free to modify or distribute them as you please. However, by registering with us, you can immediately create a live website at yourusername.flooha.com. After you’ve built your package, just click the “Install” button, answer a few simple configuration questions and Flooha will immediately install your custom package on a Flooha server. Not once will you have to download, unzip, open, modify, configure, upload, execute code or sql, or set permissions on anything in order to create a customized website. This is our promise to you.
You don’t have to be a programmer to have a kick-ass website.
Launch?
I had planned a more formal launch on Tuesday, but couldn’t resist responding to this thread on Hacker News. The thread is long, so maybe no one will notice. Or maybe not…we’ll see. If I get some traffic, I hope the site doesn’t explode. I’ll be sleeping about 10 minutes after this post. It could be an interesting morning!
Update:
We received a little traffic and 6 upvotes, but no comments. Our video tour got about 20 views and one anonymous user built a package. Today, I’ll be submitting the site to some smaller blogs and web app index sites in order to start slow. My next post will be about the official launch and what we’re all about.