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Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

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Re: Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

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I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way. I think everyone see's your @reply -- perhaps you mean DMs?

jsb is correct; they made this change a few months back.

Extra tidbit: this is the reason for those ". @foo ..." tweets you may be seeing. If any character precedes the @, then the tweet will appear in all your follower's feeds; otherwise, it behave as jsb described.

Re: Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

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This is making me feel really inadequate -- Tarsnap launched publicly only 5 months after Balsamiq, but it's nowhere near Balsamiq in revenues. (Possibly Tarsnap pricing starts at 300 picodollars/month rather than at $79.) Oh well, humility is good for the soul, right? :-)

I have a number of clients who can't keep their data in the US due to privacy considerations. Sadly, I can't send them to you until you accept Canadian customers. Which is unfortunate, as it's typically Canadian organizations that have this privacy issue with US backup providers.

(I recognize why you've made the decision that you did, but it is definitely preventing you from getting a certain class of customer who really actually cares about what you're selling vs other backup storage providers)

Re: Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

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Wow. I am completely impressed! As a Flash developer who is getting majorly into Adobe AIR (which Mockups is written in), this is very encouraging. Its kind of sad that Flash and AIR get such a bad rap, but they are great at a set of things like this.

Good luck with 2010.

Re: Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

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Not sure if he'd thought it through that far, but it seems like a pretty good and calculated risk that's paying off. The fact that he is as open as he is (though hopefully he knows better than to report numbers that appear worse to the IRS), I think makes his customers want him to succeed that much more. Broadly, it's a tool that enables others to build their own sites but also their own businesses (and I think entre…

I think they moved HQ to Italy. Would they still have to report to the IRS?

We have HQ in Italy but most of our business comes through our US presence, so yes we report to the IRS...AND to the Italian taxman. We're a micro-multinational! :)

Re: Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

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I'd love to hear about how this turns out for you.

I'll probably post to my blog with the statistics and comments about the reddit approach to advertising. I don't think much of the "buy a fraction of a day's traffic, but we're not going to tell you what fraction you're getting" approach, for one thing... Experiment day is Thursday, so I'll probably have useful numbers early next week.

Link that to HN. It will be very interesting if you put up a thorough analysis of how advertising on reddit worked out.

Re: Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

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Don't know how about you, but I find http://gomockingbird.com way better and attractive. It doesn't use flash, it has pretty controls and generally a better UI with tiny little details like, say, aligning the elements relatively to each other. But still, since they are profitable (good for them) and make that much money, there's probably a need for such services on the market.

I am a big fan of gomockingbird. Fantastic app that does a great job in quickly cooking up a mockup. Plus...it's free!

Re: Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

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Hi there. Just FYI, I'm reading this if you have any questions. Peldi

Hey, just a quick question:

Why don't you make it possible for the user to move the UI library pane from the top of the app to the left? It's a little bit of a pain to scroll left/right instead of up/down.

Re: Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

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Hi there. Just FYI, I'm reading this if you have any questions. Peldi

Hey, just a quick question: Why don't you make it possible for the user to move the UI library pane from the top of the app to the left? It's a little bit of a pain to scroll left/right instead of up/down.

It IS possible! :) Get the latest build, then in the View menu, look for "UI Library Position": http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/desktop#download

Re: Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

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I'll probably post to my blog with the statistics and comments about the reddit approach to advertising. I don't think much of the "buy a fraction of a day's traffic, but we're not going to tell you what fraction you're getting" approach, for one thing... Experiment day is Thursday, so I'll probably have useful numbers early next week.

Link that to HN. It will be very interesting if you put up a thorough analysis of how advertising on reddit worked out.

Assuming I write such a post, I'll submit it to both HN and Reddit. (And given how these things tend to work, I'll probably get more traffic from Reddit going to the blog post about advertising on Reddit than I get from the advertising itself...)

Re: Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

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This is making me feel really inadequate -- Tarsnap launched publicly only 5 months after Balsamiq, but it's nowhere near Balsamiq in revenues. (Possibly Tarsnap pricing starts at 300 picodollars/month rather than at $79.) Oh well, humility is good for the soul, right? :-)

I have a number of clients who can't keep their data in the US due to privacy considerations. Sadly, I can't send them to you until you accept Canadian customers. Which is unfortunate, as it's typically Canadian organizations that have this privacy issue with US backup providers. (I recognize why you've made the decision that you did, but it is definitely preventing you from getting a certain class of customer who re…

Privacy laws generally don't care about encryption, so -- since Tarsnap hosts data in the US -- Canadians who are bound by such laws won't find Tarsnap useful anyway.
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