Show HN: Fluxo – Build a financial model in minutes, not days

https://www.fluxo.ai

by gustavofluxo • 6 years ago

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dunky115• 6 years ago

At the subscription plans you have a weird looking outer border which wraps the four plans. I would just drop it, looks much better without it.

gustavofluxo10• 6 years ago

Good catch, that was not on purpose.

dunky115• 6 years ago

Also the buttons at the top inside the navgation (HOW IT WORKS, PRICING, DOCS, SIGN IN) have too little contrast with the blue background. There are white but have an opacity of 0.6. Set the opacity to 1 and they look much better. Add maybe a border effect on hover.

gustavofluxo10• 6 years ago

Thanks, I've just changed it. It's definitely looking better. I tried border effects but I think they're too much for my (almost nonexistent) design skills.

dunky115• 6 years ago

I think you have problems with the mobile navigation now :) The hover effect makes the background white, however the text is now white too. I would do somethink like: .navigation:hover { border: 2px solid white; margin: -2px; } And tweak the border-radius/border-color a little bit maybe. The hover effect on the non mobile navigation is fine.

dunky115• 6 years ago

Or maybe just drop the background effect on hover and add the underline effect to the mobile navigation on hover.

texasbigdata• 6 years ago

One thing to maybe explicitly stated, to compete with adaptive insights and anaplan, is that the model (assuming) auto updates with actuals monthly.

gustavofluxo10• 6 years ago

Hmm, good point. The way it works now is: if an actual is coming from an external source or a formula, it updates automatically (if it's manual, it doesn't). Once a month is closed and you want to start using that month as an actual, not a forecast, you just need to press a button "finalize all actuals for current month", and it all happens automatically.

We are positioning our product as much more lightweight and affordable solution than Adaptive or Anaplan.

dunky115• 6 years ago

On smaller viewports the footer has a left and right margin of 15px. I would drop that and always make the footer fill 100% of the width.

gustavofluxo10• 6 years ago

done

nkkollaw2• 6 years ago

It would be nice to have a sample table just to see how it works :-/

Looks great, though!

gustavofluxo10• 6 years ago

Thanks!

Two of the features we are considering next are templates and a guide/in-app training. Which one do you think would be more valuable to you?

(Also, I can answer any specific questions on the chat if you are logged in)

nkkollaw2• 6 years ago

I think it's helpful when if you open an empty dashboard, there is an example that uses all the features that you can play with.

I logged out because I couldn't really gauge the product without doing a lot of work.

Zenkit does what I'm talking about pretty well, if you're interested in this pattern.

dicefordeath• 6 years ago

Congrats on the launch!

gustavofluxo10• 6 years ago

Thanks!

tutuncommon• 6 years ago

Probably a time saver but IMO building a model from scratch is the only way to really understand any business. You can use a tool like this and it will certainly let you “get a handle on it” but I would still recommend the manual method.

gustavofluxo10• 6 years ago

Thanks for the feedback.

While Fluxo lets you automate a bunch of tedious things, it's still on the user to create the whole business logic of the model.

The idea is that you can build a model exactly as you would in Excel, just easier. Some examples: - instead of copying and pasting data from other places, integrating through an api - instead of duplicating entire sheets to create multiple scenarios, just add a scenario to a dropdown - instead of having to create separate tables for monthly, quarterly, and annual views, select how you want aggregations to work and change the view with a toggle.

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