Small teams running lots of projects beat big teams running a few. That's how a lot of you work now, so we redid our pricing to match: • Three plans, starting from $16/month/editor • Reviewers are free • Generous room to run lots of projects • Existing customers keep what they have And the pricing calculator's built right into the page: https://lnkd.in/dB24PBm5
Balsamiq
Software Development
Balsamiq is the low-fidelity wireframing tool built for product teams. No design skills? No problem.
About us
Balsamiq is the wireframing tool that helps lean product teams turn early ideas into clear, actionable direction—fast. And you don't need to be a designer to use it. Tens of thousands of product managers, founders, and engineers worldwide rely on Balsamiq to share concepts quickly, reduce rework, and build better products. Our team is bootstrapped and fully remote, working across the US and Europe to serve tens of thousands of users in dozens of countries since 2008.
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https://balsamiq.com/
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- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- The Internet
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2008
- Specialties
- User Interface Design, Communication in the design process, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Wireframes, Wireframing, UI Design, Communication, Design Thinking, Entrepreneur, Site Maps, and Mobile Design
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Balsamiq
Wireframing Software
Balsamiq helps product teams turn early ideas into quick, clear wireframes—so your team aligns early, avoids rework, and builds what actually matters.
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Kill the HiPPO, the book I cowrote with Siew Ann Tan, is now published! As a bootstrapped founder, choosing the right features to build in your software product is one of the most important things you do—and it's really hard. So we interviewed founders at 10 stable, mature, profitable, well-run bootstrapped software companies—and asked their them how they make critical product decisions. Inside this book, you'll read: * “Does it Spark Wow?” - with James Kennedy from ProcurementExpress.com * “Building for Simon from Canada” - with 🔥 Bridget Harris from YouCanBookMe by Capacity * “A Season for Everything” - with Lizelotte Green & Giacomo Guilizzoni from Balsamiq * “Cupholders vs CarPlay” - with Tyler King from Less Annoying CRM * “The Power of Constraints” - with Anthony Eden from DNSimple * “Add a Button; Remove a Button” - with Max Seelemann from @ulyssesapp * “We Sell Shovels, Not Stacks” - with Mark Stephens from IDRsolutions * “The Big Rocks Go First” - with Keith Perhac 🐡 from SegMetrics * “A Tale of Two HiPPOS” - with Dan Hammond, Squadify & Pia Lee, Squadify from Squadify * “Until Your Company is Much Bigger, YOU are the Product Manager” - with Kieran Delaney from FlatPlan More info at https://killthehippo.com/ - or search for “Kill the HiPPO” on Amazon.
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Balsamiq spotted in the job requirement! Great opportunity for multiple-hat-wearers to flex their design/engineering/writing/creative skills.
i'm looking to clone myself, but until that technology becomes available, i will settle for another human. tldr: i'm looking to hire someone at PostHog with a similar skillset to mine to help increase my bandwidth. i'm currently able to handle only around 1/10 of what i should be doing, so i need help! this person will likely work across the website, brand, and possibly some in-product stuff too, as needed. skills i'm probably looking for: - natural contrarian - someone who challenges if the norms should be norms and asks, "are we doing this because it's the best way to do it, or just because everyone else does it this way?" - a good writer who understands the value of whittling down every single character where possible - you should be able to take a high-level concept and own the entire process, from ideation, execution, to delivery - someone who is not expecting to have a formalized plan put in front of them. expect any plans to change and adapt on the fly. yolo! - someone with more visual polish than me (shouldn't be hard!) - React, Tailwind, yada yada - ideally Balsamiq too! - above all else, you must have excellent taste, discernment, and restraint! if this is you, hit the DMs.
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AI can generate 50 screens from a one-line prompt. But it can't tell you which one your team will actually build toward. AI can summarize your user research. But it can't replace how you decide what the findings mean for your product. AI can rationalize a decision. But it can't reconcile five stakeholders who disagree on priorities. AI can surface patterns in your data. But it can't make your VP and your eng lead agree on scope. AI can suggest a direction. But it can't give your team conviction in it. The best product work we're seeing right now is from teams using AI + people. AI moves fast, people decide what matters.
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It's an honor to be asked to give founders feedback. It's something else entirely to be the founder — building, pitching, and answering tough questions in 54 hours. I had the BEST time judging Chicago Startup Weekend last week, alongside Troy Henikoff, Sam Yagan, Steven Jiang, and Charlotte Trecartin. A few patterns stood out from the strongest teams: → They knew exactly who they were building for → They had a real plan to find PMF (and re-prove it) → They'd thought critically about unit economics → Their moat wasn't just "we use AI" — it was deep expertise in a specific industry with genuinely complex needs, or a new angle their audience could latch onto It was also great to feel Chicago tech getting vibrant again. I remember my first Tech Week back in 2016, and for a while that energy felt like it had faded. This weekend, it was back, full of ambitious founders (too many to name) and community builders like Scott Issen and Kirill Polevoy. Huge thank you to Allan ⭐️ Sokol and the organizing team Alexa Smith, Mayank Mehta, Liza Smirnitskaya, Mariel Mudrik, Nathan Goswick for dreaming this up and having me. And congratulations to the winning team LOOP / María Benítez de Lugo Casucci + crew. Honestly, I'd do this every weekend if I could.
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Your screenshots are now your starting point. 🏃♀️ Drop any existing product screen into Balsamiq, and it turns into an editable wireframe instantly. Skip the rebuild-every-single-screen-from-scratch phase and get straight to the conversation about what actually needs to change. See what else Balsamiq AI can do 👉 https://lnkd.in/gmt9cNsz
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The building bottleneck didn't disappear with AI, it just moved. ➡️ Hear me out... AI tools can generate polished screens in under 10 minutes. But most teams still spend 2–3 weeks getting aligned on what to build. Sooooo the gap isn't actually a tool problem, it's a clarity problem. Faster generation without shared understanding just means you can build the wrong thing faster. 🤔 Doesn't that make alignment the new bottleneck?
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This past weekend my dreams came true 🚀 Techstars Chicago Startup Weekend 2026 powered by Future Founders (April 10-12) at mHUB was everything I had imagined and more! Thanks to all the partners and sponsors who made it possible: Zentry Pass (CSW alumni), DePhi Media , World Business Chicago, Farmer's Fridge, Nuts On Clark Inc , Balsamiq , Chicago Innovation, TAVO Sleep , Slicing Pie ! This years organizing team blew my socks off: Alexa Smith (event director), Fiona Chen (operations chair), Mayank Mehta (recruitment chair & web design), Liza Smirnitskaya (sponsorship chair), Mariel Mudrik (marketing chair), Nathan Goswick (videography), and Scott Issen (nonprofit president)! You all made this possible! Thank you to our judges and speakers: Troy Henikoff , Sam Yagan , Charlotte Trecartin , Arielle Johncox , Steven Jiang , Umama Kibria , John Hill , Rohan Subramanian, Connor Cofoid, and Martina Matthews! Thank you mentors and volunteers, there’s too many to name, but I can’t stress how important you are to our event! Thank you university partners Coleman Entrepreneurship Center at DePaul University and Polsky Center at the University of Chicago for funding 10 student tickets each! Most of all I’m proud of our founders, congratulations to all of you for finishing our weekend! I’m so proud of you and can’t wait to see what you build next! FINAL RESULTS 1st place: LOOP lead by María Benítez de Lugo Casucci 2nd place & audience choice: Flywheel lead by Eshaan Bhattad 3rd place: AuthFlow lead by Sanjana Waghray The whole thing was recorded by DePhi Media including following around one of our teams SideQuest throughout the whole event and final pitches 🤯 look out for that video coming soon 👀 MY ASK OF YOU: Chicago Startup Weekend is a nonprofit event… which means it relies on your support! If you love supporting diverse entrepreneurship reach out to me with connections to sponsors and for details on how to donate 💵 THANK YOU
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54 Hours. 27 Pitches. 3rd Place. 🏆 Sanjana and I walked into Techstars Chicago Startup Weekend with one mission: to fix the "hidden" bottleneck in American healthcare - Prior Authorization. It’s the manual, bureaucratic wall that forces 1 in 4 patients to abandon treatment because the paperwork takes too long. Friday: The Selection It started with 27 initial pitches. Sanjana took the stage, laid out the vision for Authflow, and we were honoured to be among the 8 ideas selected to build over the weekend. We rallied an incredible team - Shalyn, Surya, Monica, and Mehak - and went straight into the war room. Saturday: The Build Saturday was a blur of customer discovery and heavy technical lifting. Two sessions completely shifted my perspective: Martina Matthews’ workshop on "Vibe Coding" reframed how I approached our rapid prototyping. We didn’t just build a deck; we built a backend that could ingest a clinical note and spit out a completed auth form in under 30 seconds. Umama Kibria’s session on Social Media for Startups gave us the roadmap for how actually to tell this story to the world. Sunday: The Grilling Sanjana and I co-pitched the final product to a formidable panel of judges: Arielle Johncox, Charlotte Trecartin, Sam Yagan, Steven Jiang, and Troy Henikoff. Being first on the roster meant getting grilled on our moat and GTM strategy while the room was still warming up. We defended the vision, survived the deliberation, and took home 3rd Place. A massive shoutout to the mentors who sat in the trenches with us: Kirill Polevoy, Komal Nagpure, and Sam Bidwell. Your feedback on Saturday is the reason we survived the Sunday Q&A. And to the organizers - Allan ⭐️ Sokol, Alexa Smith, Mayank Mehta, and Fiona Chen - thank you for building the arena. To Scott Issen and Future Founders for the constant trust in new builders. To mHUB for the space. We left with a signed copy of Slicing Pie by Mike Moyer, access to Balsamiq, and a lot of momentum. Authflow is just getting started. 🚀 #ChicagoStartupWeekend #Techstars #HealthTech #AI #CoFounders #BuildInPublic #ChicagoTech #Authflow #HealthcareInnovation
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Tra ieri e oggi mi hanno seguito più di 200 persone nuove, quindi mi presento per chi non mi conosce e ti racconto come posso esserti utile: 1. Ho fondato Belka assieme a Luca D'Incà. Belka è il design studio dietro a prodotti come Segugio, Fatture in Cloud, Switcho, Banca Sella e tanti altri top player in ambito tech. Possiamo aiutarti se hai bisogno di progettare o riprogettare il tuo prodotto digitale. Trovi più info qui: www.belkadigital.com 2. Ogni due settimane da due anni pubblico un'intervista a persone straordinarie per scoprire "cosa sposta" per loro. Ho intervistato dei grandi imprenditori come Marco Trombetti, Andrew Wilkinson, e Claudio Erba. Le trovi su YouTube e su Spotify cercando COSA SPOSTA. Se non ne hai mai vista una io consiglio di partire da quella di Balsamiq, un prodotto che pochi sanno che è italiano. La trovi qui: https://lnkd.in/d9SzHz27 3. Ho un blog dove scrivo i miei pensieri su...beh un po' di tutto. In questi giorni è andata virale la mia analisi su Satispay. La puoi leggere qui: https://lnkd.in/da-HQGVC Se ci siamo appena connessi o hai appena iniziato a seguirmi: grazie! Se ti va di presentarti e di raccontarmi come mi hai trovato o cos'hai trovato di interessante mi fa molto piacere!
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