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If you have ideas for software products, the next step is often to to make a model of it. It wasn't long ago that this was almost impossible for all but a few who could survive the process.
That is, you used to have to write out in text how you wanted a programmer to create your product. This would be akin to a building architect not having blueprints or scale models to hand a general contractor. Could you imagine being a GC and receiving the entire design in text? How crazy would that building look when it was done, if it ever even got done!
Well that's how it was for the world of programming until very recently. Now there are smart people like the folks at Balsamiq who have made tools that anyone could use to start manifesting their programming ideas. Balsamiq's "low fidelity wireframing" tool is as amazing as it is affordable. Truly anyone with an idea and the ability to move a mouse could take a raw programming idea and begin forming it into something that could be converted into code by a programmer. That makes it easier to shop ideas around to programming partners or even investors.
Thanks to my excellent developer friend Eric Seijo for the tip off on this one. What a gem!
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