Simon Willison’s Weblog

3rd January 2010 - Link Blog

Balsamiq: A look back at 2009. Peldi Guilizzoni from Balsamiq shares some numbers from 2009—$1.1 million profit on $1.6 million revenue, with a team of three people.

Posted 3rd January 2010 at 12:13 pm

Recent articles

The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting - 4th September 2026
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis - 4th September 2026
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics - 2nd September 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd January 2010.

balsamiq 1 money 3 startups 190

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe