Usually getting number one should make developers happy, but this was not the case here, the product was a simple side project that the vanila.io team created one year ago, and it’s full of bugs, not to mention it was hosted on a low end server just so we few people can use it.

In fact, few weeks ago, we were actually preparing for making the project open source since it were gathering dust in a corner, re-deploy and then show the world.

We saw replies stating various bugs, how the user experience is bad and the website is super slow. It made us really sad since we did not intend to publish an unfinished product for mass usage. Also, if it were some other day than weekend, we would have a worse time dealing with the situation.

You can see the comments were actually hurting us since we did not intend to deliver such user experience. The mistake was that we left it on public for an year.

Maybe this wasn’t a failure, maybe it was, but, since it’s already public, we cannot back down now. Despite being super sad, we did not back down. We immediately started working on making the code open source. The old repo was one year old, it would not properly deploy and there was too many bugs to focus. We focused on only few problems and then made it public.

For the next step, we made it open source here, if anyone interesting to contribute, join on our internal chat on https://chat.vanila.io. We hope we can create the upgraded and bug-fixed version of wireflow, launch as V2 and be not caught off-guard again ;) . We know people would like it, and this hunt proves it, even after its so buggy and slow.

This was a good experience for us. If you think we could deal the situation in some other way, or if you have any questions, feel free to comment and share.