If you never leave home, you can’t ever get lost!

NautilusFM is a development framework for FileMaker where everything happens on a single screen.  Users can’t get lost or confused and never lose context. The underlying principle behind NautilusFM is that If you never leave home, you can’t ever get lost!

NautilusFM took more than a year to develop.  It is immensely powerful and is a paradigm shift in FileMaker development, but it still uses all the fundamental principles of developing with FileMaker.  It doesn’t use APIs, web viewers, or JSON; it doesn’t need to, although they could easily be implemented.

The NautilusFM Example file, which has more than 100 hours of professional development time, in addition to the year it took to develop and refine, is now available to purchase for $495, or for $695 with 2 hours of customization (a $100 savings).  It is suitable, as is, without any modification for many businesses.  It is straightforward to customize and extend.

Personally, I use NautilusFM for every project I develop.  I think I’m on my 20th project with it.  It is incredibly fast to develop with, and users love that they can’t ever get lost or lose context.  (I’m currently working on two very distinctly different projects, both of which are huge ($100K +) and, as you can imagine by the budgets, very complex.  NautilusFM is handling both of them effortlessly).

BookIt is a commercial application, developed using the NautilusFM framework, for any type of business that takes reservations. This particular iteration is for companies that offer coach trips, both as overnight tours and as day trips. This video shows how trips are entered and administered as well as being able to easily add dates and keep track of sales. it can easily be customized for different products and services.