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10 Great Web Services to Make Your Life Easier

08 Dec

Mighty Deals

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Mighty Deals offers a one-stop shop for creative professionals and trusted merchants to meet and reach out to each other, quickly and easily.  This service offers unbelievable deals and discounts for creative professionals. The deals include products and services that are heavily discounted, usually from 50% to 90% off.

AppSumo

AppSumo

AppSumo is like GroupOn for web apps. AppSumo is offering $1,543 worth of Bad Ass Developer products and services like Twilio, Heroku, Recurly and MongoHQ for only $47. In the bundle they are offering six months of SendGrid’s e-mail deliverability service, valued at $479.

Curio

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Curio 7 is the newest version of the Curio app for Mac, which allows for better organization of creative projects. This version adds a bunch of new features, and is easier to use than previous versions.

RailsWizard

RailsWizard

RailsWizard simplifies the creation of new Rails apps, by using a wizard to walk you through setting up the initial elements of your app. You can enter everything from the Database/ORM to the JavaScript framework and plugins to the templating engine and more.

DNSimple

DNSimple

The company has the following motto:

“We make DNS simple with low cost hosted DNS, an easy to use web interface and a REST API for automation. With DNSimple, hosted DNS has never been this simple.”

The Square Grid

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The Square Grid is a new CSS framework that works based on 35 equal-width columns. It also provides a 28px baseline-grid for smooth vertical rhythm.

BrushLovers

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BrushLovers has one of the largest collections of exclusive and high-quality Photoshop brushes on the Web.

GmbhNews Mobile

GMBH-News

GmbhNews Mobile is a mobile site creation tool to help publishers create and monetize their mobile sites in less than 2 minutes. The mobile tool is disruptively easy to use and is one of the best solutions on the market if you don’t want to deal with html/css/js coding or other plugins. While the service cost $9 on the basic plan, it comes with a 30 days free trial and allow you to monetize your mobile traffic, and even earn more revenue than you spend to create the mobile site.

jMockups

jMockups

jMockups lets you design pixel perfect website mockups before you write a single line of HTML orCSS.

HOTforms 123

HOTforms123

HOTforms123 offers a free Online Flash Form Builder that makes creating and personalizing web form templates a snap.

 
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How to Build a Quick, Clickable Website or iPhone App Prototype

01 Jul


Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Mocksup

Quick Pitch: Make mockups — websites, iPhone apps, logos and more — through simple sharing and feedback, automatic versioning and even prototyping.

Genius Idea: You know how they say necessity is the mother of invention? Well, once upon a time (the time being last summer, specifically), a man was trying to build a website and needed to show his higher-ups a prototype — something clickable, not just a JPEG or Photoshop file. He needed to give them “a feel for the new design and site structure.”

What was last year’s web designer’s nightmare is now a freelancer or small design shop’s dream. Mocksup will let you share your designs, add collaborators to your project, get comments and notes from your bosses or clients, track different versions of your work and yes, create clickable prototypes of your site and app design ideas.

It’s a cool combination of digital wireframing and WYSIWYG website creation. It might also be the only online app that supports clickable iPhone app prototyping.

To get an idea for what these prototypes look and feel like, check out this web design example.

(Interesting side note: Mocksup was created in 2009 for the Rails Rumble, an event we recently named as one of our all-time favorite hackathons.)

Sounds great, but how do these guys — Adam Howell and Jim Van Fleet, the app’s creators — make money?

Mocksup has an affordable subscription fee. You can test the site with one project, ten mockups and three collaborators for free, then they ask you to pay between $9 and $19 each month, depending on how much you use the app. We find these prices extremely reasonable.

What do you think of Mocksup? How does it compare with other prototyping tools you’ve used in the past?

Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark

BizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S.$1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today.

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