Or perhaps I can better say restart. In 2025, something shifted for me. I wanted to turn Forms and Flows into something bigger, more focused, and built to last.
I had been using “Forms and Flows” as a name already for many years but then more as a container to group my community efforts (blog posts, videos, and open-source projects).
Focus
After contributing to the community for many years, I realized my attention was spread too thin. I was working on many things, so in reality, I wasn’t fully focused on anything.
Forms and Flows is my commitment to offer one valuable open-source product. There will be multiple distributions, but the product will stay the same.
Continuity
One thing I love about consulting is helping organizations solve real problems. But there is a downside: projects eventually end. I often wished I could continue to extend and improve the solutions I had built.
With Forms and Flows, that changes. As its creator, I can keep extending and improving it, not for months, but for years. That continuity gives me – hopefully with others – the chance to build something truly lasting and meaningful.
Purpose
Like many other people, I have a desire for purpose. Helping others and making the world a little bit better is an expression of this. Because I like what I do for a profession, and because of my experience, I concluded that a possible enjoyable way to hopefully help many others is by utilizing my knowledge and experience into a useful open-source product. Automating business processes and creating business solutions for many years already, the idea for a process automation platform was easily made.
When working on this idea of an open-source product, I realized that it would be really awesome if I not only could help others by doing more in less time but also improve lives of people by offering them a product which they can then use to achieve rewarding work, like joy, challenges and financially. This is another motivation for me to offer a professional open-source product as well as partnership.