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FlowFuse
Company blog · flowfuse.com/blogprogramminghardware
FlowFuse is the company blog at flowfuse.com, writing about programming and hardware. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link FlowFuse pages on Node-RED terminology and its Dashboard project, and discuss its open-source business model. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
What FlowFuse[0] does is market Node-RED[1] as the Open Source offering, obtaining contributions for various devices from the community and incorporate those into their commerical offering. IoT has the problem that many devices but few users per device. So who is going to make the effect to build an integration for third-party software? The FlowFuse model is to allow the community to do that while they (indirectly)…
Comment linking /
on “Should I open source my company? (2022)”Submitted FlowFuse Dedicated as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOkay, It seems you do, https://flowfuse.com/node-red/terminology/ , https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/concepts , so please link to it.
Comment linking /node-red/terminology/
on “Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED”Submitted Why Modbus Refuses to Die as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHi, I'm the lead developer on FlowFuse's Dashboard - thanks for the question. We have had to restart the project from scratch due to the original Node-RED Dashboard's (I'll call this Dashboard 1.0) Angular 1 dependency. We couldn't fork. That being said, because of how widely adopted and popular Dashboard 1.0 is, we wanted to make sure we mimicked that user experience as much as possible, so that users familiar with…
Comment linking /blog/2024/06/dashboard-1-deprecated/
on “Dashboard and UIs for Node-Red”Submitted Bringing Software Development Practices to Node-Red as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> The original Node-RED Dashboard is based on Angular v1, which is no longer maintained. Although small patches have been and will continue to be applied on a "best can do" basis, there will be no major feature upgrades. The lack of ongoing maintenance and updates has the potential to lead to underlying security breakages, a risk we are not comfortable taking. We have recognized the need to innovate and adapt, which…
Comment linking /blog/2023/06/dashboard-announcement/
on “Dashboard and UIs for Node-Red”