TechCrunch Reports Aviary Moves to Free Model

February 12, 2010

One of David’s predictions in Pull is that all apps will migrate to the cloud, and they will be different from today’s desktop (and even iPhone) apps. They will cooperate. Like the apps at SalesForce.com, apps for many different industries will go to a cloud-based platform and, once there, many small apps will come together to solve different problems as necessary. In effect, the larger app will be custom built on the fly as needed, and new modules will be built constantly to solve new problems (or solve old problems in a better way). We’ve always admired online photo/image editor Aviary and thought it could be such a platform, but they needed to develop a marketplace for the mini apps. Now, with money from Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos, Aviary’s main product and file hosting will be free. The company hopes to encourage developers to build small apps and create a marketplace for the mini apps. The next step would be to operate on files anywhere, rather than only those on the Aviary servers. We’ll be watching and hoping for great things from Aviary as they pursue their dreams. They may just give Adobe a run for their money (or get bought by Adobe and change the company from push to pull). Learn more in the TechCrunch article.

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