Show HN: Flow – A new type of workflow for Deep Research
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I'm super excited about this feature! It's an attempt to actually mimic deep research.
My repo Open Deep Research has been getting some traction riding on the coat-tails of OpenAI's marketing. :D
As flattered as I am about my repo getting some attention, I feel the way I initially set it up wasn’t really deep research. It was shallow research—aka, you have one forward pass: you search for a query, you scrape, and you synthesize (SSS—that's my marketing term for it).
But in reality, you SSS, then you have follow-up questions, and sometimes you go down rabbit holes. I was really inspired by this other repo: https://github.com/dzhng/deep-research
So, I wanted to see if there’s a UI that can capture this workflow, and I landed on flowcharts. The idea is that a user can come in, do SSS (search, scrape, and synthesize a report for a query), and then generate follow-up queries, continuously creating reports.
You can then consolidate these intermediate reports into a final report. The flowchart UI gives you complete control and visibility into the whole process, allowing you to generate and save intermediate reports and mix and match them at any stage.
Hope you all like it and appreciate any feedback! :)
Loom Video: https://www.loom.com/share/3c4d9811ac1d47eeaa7a0907c43aef7f