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The Farm Flow Pilot

A maintainable development framework & portable data model

  • Jamie Gaehring
  • May 26, 2025

Runrig's role in the development of Farm Flow was not only to produce a pilot app for the board's digital incarnation, but to guide the establishment of a maintainable software project for the long haul. Ideally it would bring immediate value to Fitzgerald Organics and its operations from Day 1, but without requiring Matthew to take on the additional fulltime job as project manager.

Phase #1: Low Fidelity Pilot

The first phase of the pilot application, accordingly, was meant to offer the most critical functionality of the board visualization itself, which we identified as Farm Flow's single greatest value proposition (the SOPs being a close second). The goal was to get a functioning app into Matthew's hands that could capture the same data points displayed on the board and persist that data. Future iterations would improve on the finer points of design later on:

  • Bare minimum for core CRUD operations
  • Local-first, browser-based app hosted on CDN
  • Import & export from a single JSON file

DRAFT NOTICE

This documents is still in draft; please check back soon to read more!