# Introduction

Reintroducing our company, mission, and current state of affairs

By Flower Computer Co. — 2025-05-14

Outdated: This May 2025 announcement describes Yuma's launch and related hiring at that time. Yuma has since been sunset, and Flower now focuses on Bog, its current pre-release product.

We’re Flower, a computer company inventing new ways to talk to the world around you.

This summer, we’re launching [Yuma](https://www.yuma.chat/), a chat app that lets you talk to anything: your hand, your houseplants, your pet chihuahua, the golden gate bridge. Take a photo, and the object responds. Sometimes it offers advice. Sometimes it shares a memory. Sometimes it just listens.

It’s our first step toward a stranger, more expressive internet, one rooted in the physical world. It’s a new way of relating to your surroundings that’s quiet, strange, and kind of delightful.

If that sounds like something you’d want to build, we’re hiring founding engineers to help expand this infrastructure into the world. If it sounds like something you’d want to try, Yuma launches to our first cohort on the summer solstice.

## **What We’re Building**

In practice, **Yuma is a chat app that lets you talk to anything**.

In the background, it’s a gateway to a much broader system—one that makes physical objects addressable, programmable, and social.

Each object becomes a pointer to computation. That means it can store data, share context, run software, and even dream. We’re building a persistent addressing layer to support that shift: something like [IPv6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6), but for stuff. Your bookshelf. Your neighborhood tree. Your childhood flute.

## **Why We’re Doing This**

We believe objects are the next platform—and the next lifeform.

Some reasons we’re building this:

- So we can meet new friends on things we love

- So everyday objects can store and share information in ways that feel natural, not extractive

- So developers can ship software to the world, not just to screens

- So I can ask my dog what other dogs are thinking

- So computing becomes less about apps and more about everything else

## **Where We’re At**

We raised $1.5M last October in a pre-seed round led by [Village Global](https://www.villageglobal.vc/) and [Worldbuild](https://www.worldbuild.vc/). Our co-founders have worked across [crypto](https://www.gnosis.io/), [peer-to-peer systems](https://tlon.io/), and [early consumer AI](https://www.samara.com/)—and have been dreaming about environmental computing for years.

Yuma is our first step toward that future. It’s live in TestFlight now, and launching in the App Store on the summer solstice.

Coming soon:

- A public release of Yuma for iOS

- A network of curious users talking to the world around them

If you want to help shape this future—as a collaborator, engineer, partner, or friend—[we’d love to hear from you](mailto:ed@flowercomputer.com).

Peace,

Flower Computer Co.