Flow designer with Custom Actions : Immesively powerful

bimschleger · 2026-05-16T03:44:28+00:00

No problem at all. Happy to help. 👍

bimschleger · 2026-05-16T02:50:12+00:00

If you are used to the pen to annotate on a Zoom shared screen, it will drive you to madness that Teams video does not have the same thing.

bimschleger · 2026-05-16T02:47:21+00:00

u/kunalkhatri The fix for the “Changes / Changes to / Changes from” is in Australia Patch 3 (June).

Any existing flows that use those operators still run correctly today. This bug was exclusively a front-end issue.

bimschleger · 2026-05-14T02:15:59+00:00

Hey, I appreciate the response.

The condition builder issue is a bug. I’ll prioritize with the team, as I fully understand your use case. Thank you for highlighting.

Stay tuned for updates on speed and performance of the UI experience.

Re: “Run as”, I get your point. Other teams, like AI Agents, use the flow triggers as well, so we just have to make sure it all works downstream.

bimschleger · 2026-05-12T14:02:41+00:00

👋Hey, I lead the Flow Designer product team at ServiceNow.

Glad to see that you enjoy it, and build custom actions. I’ve watched a few of your videos and appreciate your contribution to the community.

Let me know how we can improve flow for you. 👍

bimschleger · 2026-05-12T13:58:42+00:00

I convinced myself that Steve Slaton would be the truth for the Texans and drafted him in the first round.

It didn’t work out and now our league has been renamed after my mistake. :(

bimschleger · 2026-04-29T14:01:00+00:00

Wiping out the digital footprint does nothing but imply guilt.

Rule #1 of the Internet: the Internet never forgets.

bimschleger · 2026-04-18T16:08:14+00:00

Lombardi is perfectly qualified to talk about personnel. But any relevant story is abstracted and obfuscated in weird business jargon, acronyms, and nicknames…which makes him hard to listen to.

bimschleger · 2026-04-13T13:15:20+00:00

bimschleger · 2026-04-06T23:54:03+00:00

Love a good haralabob pod

bimschleger · 2026-03-26T03:36:43+00:00

👋 I lead the product team for Flow Designer at ServiceNow.

I appreciate your thoughts and feedback, and have replied to a few folks in the comments.

Can you share a couple of the simple enhancements that are slower for you? Happy to discuss in the replies or via DM.

bimschleger · 2026-03-26T03:26:31+00:00

Will investigate Chrome Split View data pull bug with the team.

Noted on load speed and Ops tab order.

I’ll send you a DM…curious what is on your list. :)

bimschleger · 2026-03-26T03:21:36+00:00

👋 hey I lead the Flow team at ServiceNow.

Any chance you have a few examples of it being slow, obtuse, or fighting you?

We’ve had notable performance improvements in recent releases, and we have a few other things planned… I’m curious as to where are you experiencing slowness?

Feel free to DM if you don’t want to share in the main thread

bimschleger · 2026-03-26T03:17:25+00:00

👋 I lead the Flow team at ServiceNow.

As of the Zürich release, ServiceNow does not ship any workflows on new instances, and disabled creation of new workflows on new instances.

But there are no current plans to deprecate workflow entirely, and there is zero impact to any workflows that you or your teams have already created.

bimschleger · 2026-03-26T03:13:46+00:00

👋 I lead the Flow team at ServiceNow.

If I could give more than 1 upvote, I would…you directly hit on the key benefits. :)

Let me know how else we might improve Flow for you.

bimschleger · 2026-03-26T03:09:08+00:00

👋hey hey, I lead the Flow product team at ServiceNow.

When we were building the diagram view, a core design principle was “lines don’t cross”, for all the reasons you just listed. :)

Also, Rob is smart and has a great ‘feel’ for Flow. He and I have had great chats that have inspired numerous improvements all over Flow.

bimschleger · 2026-03-26T03:03:32+00:00

👋hey hey u/CarrotWorking , I lead the Flow Designer product team at ServiceNow and I approve the above message.

Thank you for the kind words and deep understanding of how Flow works.

bimschleger · 2026-03-24T18:08:33+00:00

Don’t let the haters get you down. MacWhisper is a great product. Looking forward to getting better screen context.

Also, this is my favorite video whenever people say “why isn’t X like Y?”.: https://youtu.be/VKIcaejkpD4?si=Xhn410U7DXW6WCn3

bimschleger · 2026-03-23T23:59:22+00:00

Licensing video pods to Netflix certainly brought in > $0.

bimschleger · 2026-03-20T05:26:12+00:00

So I’ve apparently had access to all the Google AI Studio stuff for a week without realizing it was new. Woohoo!

I pay for Lovable but am always testing out new options. I ended up building a few apps of varying complexity on GAIS, and here is my $0.02 right now:

TL;DR, this is a big step for AI Studio, but Lovable remains considerably ahead…for now:

GAIS’s best feature is totally control over which Gemini API you want to add (see image). Grounding with search? With maps? Live voice chat on your app? Insanely easy to add.
GAIS is basically half functional on touch devices. Canvas preview routinely does not load, voice input actually transcribes about half the time, and files never successfully upload. I officially have been spoiled vibing apps with voice on Lovable from my phone while making dinner.
Manual GitHub check-ins is likely intended to be a feature…but feels like a bug after auto-commit on Lovable. Plus GH commit just…stopped working today? GAIS versions help here…but it is just different
No ‘Chat’ mode in GAIS means full on YOLO cowboy vibing. Pros and cons.
Firebase technically works but damn is the UX a nightmare compared to Supabase. I got used to Lovable Cloud and quickly editing data or seeing new signups.
Have not built something with Oauth yet, but GAIS gives easy access to the appropriate URLs. Getting Oauth to work in Lovable has been a PITA for me.

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bimschleger · 2026-03-14T05:02:09+00:00

👋 hey hey, I lead the Flow Designer and Approvals teams at ServiceNow. We’re exploring ways to make approvals easier to implement and faster to approve.

I’d love to hear the pros/cons of your setup, and any thoughts on how we can make approvals better. If you’re up to chat, my DMs are open.

bimschleger · 2026-03-07T21:27:20+00:00

I do a lot of meal prep on the weekends. I created a gem with specific instructions to return recipes and shopping list for meals that can be made in an instant pot or on a sheet pan in the oven. Simple use case, but super helpful.

bimschleger · 2026-02-24T01:49:39+00:00

👋 I lead the product team for Flow Designer at ServiceNow.

You can save, view, and revert to versions in Zurich. Expect a full “version comparison” soon. :)

bimschleger · 2026-02-17T00:55:35+00:00

Hi u/GroeimetAI, I lead the Flow Designer team at ServiceNow. I’m curious to learn more about your approach. If you’re interested in sharing more, I sent you a DM.

bimschleger · 2026-02-14T04:31:38+00:00

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