Balsamiq AIR Application – $10,000 in Revenue in 6 Weeks

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I missed this last week but Marshall Kirkpatrick has a blog post up about Balsamiq, a mockup creator tool that was built using AIR. the video (below) shows off a pretty slick little application with a nice UI (and I love the Quicksilver-style search). This is one of the reasons I think AIR absolutely changes the game. It makes it really, really easy to quickly build cross-patform desktop apps and in this case, with a little bit of work, one developer was able to make a chunk of change:

It’s a great story of a creative entrepreneur using new technology to address a key market need and finding a healthy number of customers willing to pay for software.

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  • David

    We just started using this at our company – perfect for us non-designers in that it meets the sweet spot of providing just enough functionality to create a great visual without it being too complicated.

    Cheers,

    Davo

  • David

    Sorry, when I say “complicated” I mean a lot of design terminology that a bit/bytes guy like me can’t get his head around (kind of like that “timeline” in flash – isn’t that why they made Flex for us developers?).

    Davo

  • http://hat6.com Dusty

    Ryan: You still have mortgage ad spam in your RSS feed.

    It was cleared out for a while, but it looks like the bad guys still have a hook into your system.

  • http://www.splittesting.com Joe

    I have been developing for a long time and can barely color between the lines any longer. Is this program something that can work with database driven applications?