We started Floot with two engineers and a belief that anyone should be able to ship a real app. The product has grown a lot since then, and so has the team.
Today we're excited to welcome Joanie Lam as our first Founding Designer.
Joanie started out designing graphics for her family's fashion business, sharpened her craft at J.Crew and Gap Inc., and has since designed tools in aerospace, NASA, and nonprofits.
At Floot we're building the full system around AI that helps people ship real apps. Most of our users aren't engineers, so how the product feels matters as much as what it does. Every screen, every interaction, every moment where someone isn't sure what to do next is a design problem before it's an engineering problem. Until now, we've been solving those problems as we go. Joanie is here to solve them on purpose.
When we talked, what stood out to me most was how driven she is by impact. That's the mindset we want: real products, built for real people, that actually work.
She's also a new dog mom to Pom Pom, a Pomeranian mix with a 24/7 snack habit, and spends crab season catching Dungeness crab in San Francisco.
Welcome to Floot, Joanie!
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Floot AI can turn recorded audio into text, with speaker labels and timestamps, so a meeting, an interview, or a voice note becomes something your app can search and act on. Describe what you want done with the transcript and Floot wires it in.
It runs on Google's new Gemini 3.5 Transcribe model. Try it in any Floot app today.
Build an app in Claude or ChatGPT. Ship it to the app stores from the same chat.
That’s Floot, and we’re live on Product Hunt today!
Floot gives your AI a zero-setup full-stack workspace with a database, user logins, hosting, and a live URL. Your existing AI subscription does the thinking, so we don’t charge based on how much AI you use.
The newest piece is mobile publishing. Say “make this a mobile app,” connect your Apple or Google developer account once, and Floot handles the build and sends it to TestFlight or Google Play. No need to buy a Mac or fiddle with Xcode or Android Studio.
If you’ve built something with Floot, the most helpful thing you could do today is leave a short comment about what you made. If you’re new to Floot, there’s also a code for 30% off your first month on the launch page.
producthunt.com/products/flo…
App builders like lovable/replit should not exists in 2026. Why would you want to buy overpriced tokens from them instead of getting it directly from Claude/ChatGPT?
If the reason is you are non-technical and don't want to deal with all the messy details, just use floot.com ! We give you the convenience without binding you to overpriced tokens.
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I don’t even know how to write this without my heart breaking.
Little Brianna Lovely Nyawira, a tiny play-group pupil at Blessings View in Kiangai, was taken from Miiri PCEA Church while she was quietly having her porridge.
CCTV shows a woman in a red kofia approaching her, taking her hand, and walking out of the church with her like it was the most normal thing in the world.
Her father, Antony Maina, has been raising her alone with his mother after he and Brianna’s mother separated. He has been her whole world… and now he doesn’t know where that world is.
The police at Miiri Police Post and Karatina Police Station already have the report. The family is desperate. They are scared. They are tired. And somewhere deep down, there is a quiet, painful possibility that the person who walked away with their child might not be a complete stranger.
Please… if you were at Miiri PCEA Church that day, if you recognise the woman in the red kofia, if you have seen a little girl matching Brianna’s description anywhere around Karatina, Kiangai, Gatura, Miiri or the surrounding areas — speak up. Quietly. Safely. Contact the police or call:
0794 276 654
0723 135 856
Do not confront anyone. Just share what you know so this child can come home without more harm.
Brianna is not just a missing child.
She is somebody’s entire heart walking around without her father.
Please keep sharing this
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Most people still think starting with Floot means starting over.
It doesn't. You can bring in what you've already built.
That half-finished app from a weekend project. The site a freelancer made for you two years ago that you can't update anymore. The thing you got 60% through and abandoned.
Zip it, drop it in, and Floot reads the whole thing. Your code, your structure, your context, all of it carried over.
No rebuilding. No copying files one by one. No starting from scratch.
You just pick up where you stopped.
#buildwithfloot
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✨ NEW in rodi.ke 🚚🇰🇪
- Passenger dropoff along destination
- Mediocre conductor/pedestrian/traffic npcs
- Better mobile responsiveness
- Improved map view
oh , and type "turbo" for a secret temporary cheatcode 😎
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✨ x2.5 the metro scale and added more centres and estates in rodi.ke now 🚚🇰🇪
coverage includes Mombasa , Eldoret , Nairobi and Nakuru
its still an empty messy world rn , but we're still world building here. – at Nairobi, Kenya
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Floot apps can now send AND receive email. Built in. No third-party service required.
Send transactional emails from your own domain, receive email and trigger workflows, build support inboxes, auto-responders, email-to-ticket systems. Full threading included.
Verify your domain, tell Floot what you need. Done.
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Alejo’s travel business is projected to reach €5M in revenue this year.
Not by starting from zero.
He already had the brand, audience, and demand.
What changed was the product: curated trips to Asia.
And the site was built with Floot
Really good reminder that distribution + the right offer can move fast.
Full Interview on the FlootHQ YT channel.
Well at this point it looks like the US is trying to destroy the world cup because everyone else doesn't call it soccer and they suck at it, they call protective rugby football, what did we expect?
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From live messaging to shared workspaces to multiplayer games, your apps can update live with zero setup.
With Floot Realtime, you can now make apps people can use together, instantly.
Out now on Floot.
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Kenya is not for beginners! A matatu driver and his assistant wamejaa ngori and driven tehir Abirias to the GSU Headquarters Thika Rd after they refused to pay fare. Abiria says assistant driver alisema gari ni 80 wakiingia, then changed it to 100 bob while enroute. They have refused to pay the 100, they have refused to climb down at the GSU HQs, ati warudishwe tao bas mahali waliwatoa wachukue gari ya 80. The hard-eyed and hard-headed Abiria wamesema ati sio hao waliambia watu wa matatu waingizwe boks na serikali warudi kwa barabara. Imebidi tu Kondakta akubali hiyo 80. Awuoro!
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Hello Nyakundi,
Please hide my identity. I am a staff member at Artcaffé, and we are really suffering under the current management conditions at the branch.
First, last week our PHs, off days, and leave days were deducted simply because of the matatu strike, something that was completely beyond our control as employees. It is unfair for management to punish staff for a nationwide transport crisis that affected everyone.
Secondly, the transport situation for staff working late shifts is becoming dangerous. Imagine the staff van arriving at the branch around 1:40 AM, then dropping employees along the highway at around 2 AM and leaving everyone to figure out how to get home safely on their own. This is not secure at all, especially for staff members going home at such hours.
The worst issue is the “FUNGA FUNGUA” shifts. Right now it is around 3 AM and I have just come from the PM shift, yet I am expected to wake up again at 4 AM to prepare and report back to work. We barely get any sleep. You enter the next shift already exhausted and sleepy, which is extremely risky especially in a busy restaurant environment where mistakes and accidents can easily happen because of fatigue.
We are mentally and physically drained. Some of us cannot even sleep properly because by the time you reach home, it is already time to prepare for the next shift again. This is not healthy and it is affecting staff wellbeing badly.
Another major issue is staff meals. There is no proper breakfast and sometimes no lunch at all, yet employees are expected to work long exhausting hours. Nobody seems concerned about staff welfare anymore.
Please let this reach HR because workers are really suffering. We are asking management to listen to staff concerns and improve these working conditions before things get worse.
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Building a portfolio is annoying.
You have to rewrite your experience, choose projects, organize your skills, and make the design look clean.
So we tried something faster:
Give Floot your LinkedIn profile.
Tell it the style you want.
Let Floot Infinity pull the right info and turn it into a polished portfolio site.
No blank page. No copy-pasting. All hands free.
This is what building with AI should feel like.
Link in the thread ⬇️
#buildwithfloot
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I quit my job to vibecode full-time.
Got 100K users in 4 months.
Here's why it worked. ⬇️
Your projects can now talk to and borrow from each other on Floot AI App builder 😀@floothq















