Back in December Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright scored a big PR boost for their company, Appcelerator, by getting Marc Fleury to join their advisory board.
Most people would be happy and then take it easy based on this. Yeah, not these guys. From Jeff’s tweets, I learned that there was an article written about them and they were a finalist for an award.
Geek note: when you look at Jeff’s Twitter page, you’ll see he has customized it with the Appcelerator logo. He’s serving that logo off of Amazon’s S3 web service. Cool. It’s costing him .114 cents each time that image is served. Yeah, I did the math. Yeah, I’m a geek.
The article is a pretty nice writeup in Information Week. I hadn’t realized that their efforts might be causing issues at Adobe but it sure seems that way. It’s a good thing to disrupt the status quo. That’s what startups are all about.
On top of that, they are a finalist in the Jolt Awards. Honestly, I don’t know anything about these awards but the fact that they’re from Dr. Dobb’s Journal must mean they are pretty legitimate. By the way, Appcelerator’s competition for the award includes Adobe and Sun. Not bad company to be in.
They’re pretty secretive about who is using the Appcelerator platform so I thought I’d go trolling. One I know is the Startup Weekend Atlanta company Skribit. I know this because Jeff and crew were involved in the development and they were able to get that going very quickly. The only other site I could find (honestly, I didn’t spend much time trolling) was Team One Eye which seems to be run by one of Appcelerator’s employees. I’d say it’s a a good vote of confidence if Appcelerator’s own employees are using their stuff for their non-work projects.
Appcelerator has been around for less than 2 years (including the time under the previous name - Hakano). I count eleven people on LinkedIn that say they work at Appcelerator (although Nolan’s profile still lists him as being at Vocalocity). Pretty sizeable and I think they’re growing fast. This will be a fun one to watch and could be another smashing Atlanta hit. By the way, they are self funded and have grown through revenue. That makes this an even better story!
I wish Jeff would let me invest in Appcelerator, but he won’t take my money! This is the hottest startup in town IMHO. Please, Jeff, I’m begging you….
I think Jeff has learned a lesson or two about taking other people’s money. ;-)
Hey Sanjay,
Thanks for the plug.
We’re at 15 employees currently but growing. We have a number very large customers using our software (in fact one is doing over $2M per week in revenue using an app built on appcelerator) and we will have more case studies and public announcements of who they are.
You should see and hear a lot more about Appcelerator in the coming months. :)
Jeff
p.s. wayt, i love you man