July started off with our huge update and some great press and ended with Mocksup having our biggest month ever in terms of traffic, interest and new subscribers.
In fact, we’re closing out July with 3 times (!) as many paid subscribers as we had in June. Which is just about the best news we’ve ever heard here at Mocksup HQ. (You like us, you really like us!)
Thanks so much to everyone who visited, signed up, emailed, upgraded, tweeted and blogged about us this month. We’re working on even more great updates for August and hope to be writing this same kind of blog post and the end of next month.
Last week we launched our biggest update in the almost one year history of Mocksup. It received a fair amount of attention — vaulting to the top of startup and programming site Hacker News, onto Yahoo!’s Delicious Popular page and all over Twitter — netting us by far our busiest week ever traffic wise and some pretty darn flattering blog coverage:
We get a lot of requests from developers, designers and other creative types who are looking for things to make their jobs easier. It isn’t often that I’m able to really help with that, so when @Zee pointed me to Mocksup, I knew that I had to tell you about it…
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.
One of the best things about all the attention was the useful feedback we got from new users that we’ll soon start working into future releases. Thanks to all those who took the time to drop us a support request or suggestion.
Thanks again for everyone’s support and here’s to many more weeks like last week!
We received so much positive feedback from the changes we made earlier this week that I wasn’t able to finish writing about it until today.
And, even then, so many things have been added or updated that I can’t really go in-depth about each one. But, I’ll go ahead and quickly list them all out.
All new marketing design (including this fancy new blog!) and a better organized, tighter admin area UI.
Support for iPhone mockups. This is a biggie, we’re the first webapp to support iPhone prototyping. We’re really proud of this feature. Give it a try.
Added the ability to control not only the horizontal, but also the vertical alignment of any mockup. Making it possible to center anything, from banner ads to illustrations to photos.
Notes, a new way to leave feedback on specific parts of a mockup. Now, you can either be general with your feedback or use notes to highlight every gritty detail.
Can now view both your current version’s comments as well as every past version’s archived comments. This makes it much easier to see what has already been said about older versions of your designs.
Better control over your version history. Now if you have a small change that you don’t want saved as an entirely new version, just click the checkbox when you upload the new version and it will overwrite the old version instead of save a new one.
Mockup specific settings, allowing you to have different backgrounds and alignment for the entire project, just like before, but also from mockup to mockup. This is really good for multiple versions of a project’s new design that all need different backrounds, or for a project that combines website designs, banner ad designs, illustrations, etc. all together.
And tons of other behind the scenes, super detailed stuff, that probably only we notice but that has made Mocksup a better product.
Wow, we should’ve released this thing in chunks, huh? But, now that it’s finally done, we hope you find it even more useful than before. Throughout the next couple of weeks we’ll have blog posts diving into more detail about specific features.
Until then, there are still a few kinks that we’re ironing out, so if you have a problem with any of the new stuff or a suggestion for how a feature might be even better please do drop us a note.
About Mocksup
Mocksup makes it dead simple to share your website, mobile or tablet mockups with clients, coworkers, cofounders or the entire interwebs. Go to Mocksup’s homepage.
