Man, there are a lot of these "Balsamiq-esque" apps lately.
I've started wondering if it has anything to do with Peldi's financial transparency. People saw what a cash cow it was and decided they wanted a piece.
In my case I've started working on WireframeSketcher roughly at the same time Peldi did. He just was much more successful than me :). You can see that my blog posts go way back to October 2008. So WireframeSketcher didn't start as Balsamiq's copycat but it certainly looks like it now.
To give credits where it's due, the original idea came to me after seeing MockupScreens. I thought that with my Eclipse experience it would be easy to do something like this but better for Eclipse. I was looking for a side project and this one seemed like a perfect candidate to me.
mockups is not a disruptive app / service. Even if inspired by Peldi's posts, if another product can take the game up a notch, it should benefit both the founder as well as the cusotmers.
To give credits where it's due, the original idea came to me after seeing MockupScreens. I thought that with my Eclipse experience it would be easy to do something like this but better for Eclipse. I was looking for a side project and this one seemed like a perfect candidate to me.