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.

We released NautilusFM under an open source license in the hope that developers, expecially beginner, and interemediate developers would downoad it, use it and learn from it. To that end, we’ve been giving away the Example file for more than 2 years.  Even though it has been downloaded by more than 270 developers in 42 countries, there is no indication that anybody is using it, or has even taken the time to look at it. So we’re not doing it anymore; sorry.

NautilusFM, 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).