Solutions
Alongside a job
For an operator with a few hours a week, not a full day.
What you have
A job, and a few hours a week that are genuinely yours — usually not the same hours each week.
What you want
Something running that does not need you daily, and that tells you truthfully when it does.
What is in the way
Most of this work is waiting. The parts that need a human are short and badly timed, and a dashboard that demands daily attention will consume every hour you have.
The constraint is attention, not time
An operator with ten spare hours a week does not fail because ten hours is too few. They fail because the ten hours are spent checking, and because the two moments that genuinely needed a decision arrived on a Tuesday afternoon.
FlowFinds is built around that. Most of what it does is retrieval, comparison and generation, and none of it requires you present. What this page sets out is exactly which moments do.
What FlowFinds does about it
The dashboard opens on a verdict, and the verdict is allowed to be quiet: nothing changed today, there is nothing here that needs you. Quiet is a stated conclusion carrying its receipt — the age of the evidence, and when the price was last checked — not an empty screen and not a fabricated all-clear. On a day when no evidence refreshed, nothing is both the honest answer and the most common one.
The other shape is attention: a ranked list of things that changed or need a decision, each carrying the resolver that produced it and the underlying values. An item that cannot name its receipt is not emitted. That is the design decision this page rests on — a dashboard which always finds something to report would cost you your entire weekly budget in reading.
Where something has stalled, it resolves to three lines — what happened, why, and what happens next — and the last line names who acts. Most of them name us. For someone with four hours on a Sunday, the difference between “we are working on this” and “you must do something” is the whole value of the screen.
The moments that need you
| Step | Who acts | What exists afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Decide on a find, inside the hold window | You | A thirty-minute reservation converted into a claim, or released |
| Score and serve candidates | FlowFinds | A feed that waits for you; it does not expire |
| Declare your supplier cost once | You | A margin basis recorded against the offer |
| Generate and re-check | FlowFinds | A store, an offer and price re-checks that run without you |
| Accept or revise the section order | You | A published preview; nothing was applied before you accepted |
| Launch the ad test in your own account | You | A test measured against a bar written before the spend |
| Answer customers | FlowFinds | Replies assembled from the product record; anything not on record is refused and handed to you |
Only three of those are yours, and two of them happen once. The one that recurs — the claim decision — is the one with a clock on it.
The clock, stated plainly
A hold is a thirty minute reservation, and it does not extend to fit your schedule. Several founders may be watching the same unclaimed product at once, since a hold is not a global lock, so a product you were considering can be claimed by someone else while you are at work. Passing on a product tells you plainly that you will not see it again, and moving your hold tells you the previous hold is released. Both are stated before the control rather than discovered after it.
The practical advice that follows is simple: open the feed when you have thirty uninterrupted minutes, not when you have five.
What it costs
The free tier has no card, no trial clock, and does not expire — which suits irregular use better than a trial that runs down while you are busy. Two full website edits and ten product searches per five hours is what it allows. The ten euros behind a first launch is our money, unconditionally, and advertising draws on a separate visible balance rather than on a subscription.
Allowances refresh on a rolling five-hour window inside a weekly cap, so an unused week does not accumulate into a larger one. The full ladder is on pricing.
Honest limits
- The thirty-minute hold does not wait for the weekend, and a product someone else claims is gone permanently.
- Allowances do not roll over. A quiet week does not bank capacity for a busy one.
- The verdict tells you when something needs you; it does not act for you. Campaign launch and domain purchase are initiated by you.
- Nothing is posted to any platform on your behalf, so organic work still costs your own hours.
- The support agent answers from the product record and has no authority to issue a refund, change a price or alter an order. Those come back to you.
- This is a business, not a passive product. The evidence, the store and the ad artefact are produced for you; the decisions and the spending remain yours.
The two verdict states are described in admin, the hold and claim rules in Product Hunter, and the machine that runs while you are away in activity. If you have never launched anything, start at your first store.