It’s been one week since FlairBuilder was first released to the public. A long week, I could say, in which lots of exciting and brand new things have happened to me: have sold the first few licenses, have received tremendous amount of positive feedback from all around the world, have won a project contest. All in all, a whole lot of new experiences that I couldn’t even dream of before.

It all started with the shy announcement on Business of Software forum. I have received great feedback from that forum in the past, starting with this line:

First, 30 second reaction: Awesomeness.

You can imagine the motivation I gained from a feedback like this. And fortunately, there were more statements like that one. I am so lucky!

Anyway, back to last week, after two days of relative calm, Wireframes Magazine made be the honor to feature FlairBuilder with an article. This started the buzz! Thursday and Friday brought about 1000 visitors each. Twitter started to buzz about FlairBuilder and lots of people showed interest in my little app.

And Friday night it happened: my first sale! Followed shortly by a second one. There are no words (at least not those that come easy) to describe the feeling of accomplishment and excitement and doubt… Did it really happened? Is it a mistake? Am I dreaming? I’ll keep you posted with numbers as I get used with the feeling. I am currently bit overwhelmed.

On Monday, I participated to this contest of entrepreneurship in Bucharest, contest organized during the conference called <dev:world>. It has been a great experience for me. It was more than I could wish as a fresh entrepreneur and start-up. I meat a lot of people, experienced entrepreneurs and Web professionals, as well as other young developers like me striving to create useful software for online market. Many interesting projects participated to the competition, such as:

• A jobs search engine called balaur.ro, ‘balaur’ being the Romanian word for ‘monster’ . It was developed by some ex-Google guys or so. Very smart and impressive.
• Symbolya – A travel experience sharing website that aims to be visual only, that is you share your impressions through little meaningful icons.
• AltCtrl – a cool price comparing FireFox plugin that aggregates product prices from several ecommerce sites in Romania.
• WiseHR – An HR software that is taking shape as I write this. Developed with ExtJS and, of course, is looking extremely cool!
• Noastra.ro, noastra being the word for ours. It is basically a triad of application targeting personal finances, health and education. Business strategy still in the process of definition. ‘ve been there!
• Nod.ro, nod being the word for knot, or node. From the brief architecture presentation some could tell that it is one of the best architecture set in place in Romanian projects.
• and few others….

The start of this week also brought a new wave of visitors, ~2200 being the record! Most probably, things will calm down to about the average of 800-1000. Still I find it quite OK, considering the fact that FlairBuilder has only one week of ‘out in the wild’ experience!

We shall see what the rest of week will bring. Unkown, here I come!