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balsamiq

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About balsamiq

Single founder and CEO of bootstrapped Balsamiq: https://balsamiq.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #43251478

    Thanks for sharing this @janpio. I'm around if anyone has any questions. - Peldi (Balsamiq founder)

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    Comment #27704574

    Notably absent from the list: Ireland.

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    Comment #23368385

    That sounds stressful! ;) We're not here for growth, but for longevity. I aim for 2% year on year growth, but for 100+ years. :)

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    Comment #23362009

    Ehm...why all the past tense? We still ARE very much around...we just had our best year yet [1], and are on track to do even better. Don't count us out just yet! :) [1] https://blo…

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    Comment #23360348

    Brajeshwar! It's good to come across you on the internet again, it's been a while! I hope you're doing great, and thanks for the kind words.

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    Comment #23360341

    Geez @cheez ;) thanks for the kind words. I do still believe there was a fair amount of luck involved, but I'm glad my writing was useful to you.

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    Comment #18629507

    Since we have a lot of customers like you, we have been investing more and more in educational content about UX for non-designers. Check it out if you're interested [1]. It's all f…

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    Comment #16018564

    Thank you! About a super minimal web CMS... I wouldn't build one. We can discuss more over email if you'd like, so we don't highjack the thread: peldi@balsamiq.com

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    Comment #16018546

    Yes, we're mostly remote.

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    Comment #16016515

    We (Balsamiq) look up to Basecamp quite a bit, and people have compared our culture to theirs. Check out our blog for some of our policies and other stuff. Any questions, I'm here.…

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    Comment #13704482

    We've been using https://swiftype.com/site-search for a couple of years. It's great.

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    Comment #13542319

    We use Convox at Balsamiq as well.

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    Comment #12891210

    whoa that's no good! Can you please send some more details to support@balsamiq.com? It definitely shouldn't do that. Thanks!

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    Comment #11335531

    Not for long... ;)

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    Comment #11335529

    I think if someone would be crushing us, we'd find out pretty quickly, as our sales would decline. So far, they've done just the opposite. Here's my latest yearly status update: ht…

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    Comment #11335522

    Hi there! Peldi from Balsamiq here. The profit sharing program is one of our most successful policies. The only update it required since 2011 is that we raised the percentage of pr…

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    Comment #9393528

    David! I met you at Better Software in Florence a few years ago, not long after I had finished scrounging up 2,500 euros to start Balsamiq SRL (I had to give my mother 1% of the co…

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    Comment #8891402

    I do? I don't remember saying that. I don't really want to get into this debate, but I've been running Balsamiq from Italy since 2008, and it's been just fine. Then again, YMMV...w…

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    Comment #8664265

    Here's a subreddit full of resources about this topic: http://www.reddit.com/r/flatmanagement I'm a mod of it...we're pretty flat at Balsamiq, too.

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    Comment #4518554

    Working on it, we have a native iPad app currently in private alpha. We're experimenting different things, we want it to be "just right". :)

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    Comment #4518546

    As a first step, the next big feature on our list is to make the Symbol Libraries on https://mockupstogo.mybalsamiq.com/projects easy to import from within the editor. It should he…

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    Comment #4518534

    I should have called it Balsamiq Wireframes, but I figured it out when it was too late to change it...oh well. :)

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    Comment #4518530

    Let's just say we're paying careful attention for now...

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    Comment #4518525

    Hi mattyfo, Peldi from balsamiq here. We have not really attacked the commenting feature in myBalsamiq yet, what we have in regards to commenting is really MVP at this point. We'll…

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    Comment #3647494

    Hey thanks for using my post as an example! ;)