This spring I did a head-to-head comparison between the original Australian Flow hive and the Chinese copy Auto-frame and this is what I found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVkyC-i1K0k&t=45sI kept bees back in the 70's and kept enough hives at that time to sell honey commercially. I have only re-entered beekeeping because of the promise of the Flow hive. The idea of getting honey without the back-braking work of robbing the hives, the huge mess of uncapping and extracting, and the endless sticky cleanup sold me on returning to beekeeping. I have been really excited to find that the Flow hive hype was actually true! I made a good honey crop this year and, now that I've learned a lot about how to most effectively the Flow, I can't wait for next spring. Beekeeping has become almost pure fun for me now that Flow is here.