100.000 users and counting….
This weekend we have passed the milestone of 100.000 user accounts that have been created at Floorplanner.com. We are proud and excited that this many people have signed up to use our tool. We would like to invite you all for some coffee and cake at our offices but we are afraid it won’t fit 
Some more information about these figures: It took us about 6 months (during the Dutch Beta period) to reach one third (=33.000) of the total accounts, about 3 months to get to 66.000 and 1.5 month to reach 100.000 user threshold. We think this shows some healthy growth and hope this continues as we are constantly improving our Floorplanner and will introduce some new cool features in the near future. It’s great to see that these 100.000 accounts originate from over 200 countries, below you can see the top 10
1. Netherlands
2. United States
3. China
4. Belgium
5. United Kingdom
6. Germany
7. Canada
8. Australia
9. India
10. Italy
What we find even more encouraging, besides these numbers, is the quality of the floorplans you are creating and the feedback we receive. We visit the Floorplanner Fresh page regularly and are frequently amazed by the plans you are making. You are providing us with lots of positive comments and useful feedback that helps us to improve our tool and as we recently launched our forums there is also a more public place to share your thoughts and remarks online with other users.
So thank you all for using our product and we hope we can post about a new milestone soon….
Congratulations, I love Floorplanner, keep it up!!
Aren’t you guys just ripping off the icovia.com floor planning tool?
@Kathy, Thanks, we will
@Brian, Thank you for posing this question, I’ll hope to answer your question by explaining a bit more about the history of our company Suite75 our tool Floorplanner.
We started our company 8 years ago coming from an Architectural/ Engineering background with the goal to create userfriendly CAD software for building companies and their clients (mostly consumers) in The Netherlands. We started out building our software in various code languages but quickly decided to focus on online tools and chose Macromedia Flash in 2001 as our main development tool also inspired by the first flash based roomplanner tool at furniture.com (that is around since 1997 if I’m correct). Some of our early work we did in flash 5 in 2001/2002 can still be found here and here. Since then we have provided interactive floorplans for thousands of houses in the Netherlands and created many tailormade online applications for endusers to customize their own house for specific building projects. As this work was done for local building companies it is Dutch only.
Since 2003 we have been using the name Floorplanner and decided to make this our main focus. We have been investing a lot of time in setting up our Floorplanner as a flexible platform and testing and tuning it’s capabilities to quickly create complex floor plans. Last year we introduced a Dutch consumer version of our tool that enables non technical users to create complete floor plans and not only single room designs. We used used the feedback from this beta period to improve our product and released the international version of our Floorplanner in April 2007 becoming a bit more visible for the world outside The Netherlands..
Of course there are hundreds of software packages that enable you to drag and drop furniture elements on a floorplan like Autocad, Smartdraw and Visio and there are also dozens of online roomplanners available that are build with flash. Icovia is probably the most visible as they offer a great product and have some well known clients. We are aware of their work and from others but have always decided to build the tool we would want to use ourselves and not build a copycat of any other software or website. For instance all our 400+ furniture elements are original artwork done by Gido and others within our company and are not based on other software libraries but on real-life items.
Our goal is to build an online CAD solution that is powerful but still so easy to use that virtually everybody can use it. The future development of Floorplanner will be shaped by our own ideas and the feedback of our users and not on the feature list of other products.
I hope this gives you a bit more insight on our product and how we got there.
Jeroen
Congratulations!
it’s great that floorplanner have so much user in china.
Sorry about that read it wrong. Please keep up the good you are doing. This sight is great. God Blessyou all.