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IFBIN goes Open Source

IFBIN was an attempt at creating a commercial code library that you subscribed to. The code was great, but the price was steep, especially to a community spoiled by lots of good and free tutorials. Recently, IFBIN was changed to be a free service.

If you want to make money on selling your code to the Flash community, you have a tough job. Websites such as FlashKit and UltraShock offer good tutorials and code for free. The only ones that really make money on ActionScript code are the ones making commercial components. Why charge $350 a year for something that others offer for free? The idea behind IFBIN was to offer more than the simple tutorials. IFBIN was to be a code library for creating real applications, not just code snippets. Several great contributors signed up to deliver code, subscribers signed up, great examples were constantly added. Everything looked golden - and now it is free for all. Why? It may sound odd but it was actually due to "Divorce and a legal custody battle". Read more about this in the official IFBIN blog.

The IFBIN service is a small program you download and install that lets you browse the code available. Some of this code was free but most of it required a subscription. Now it's all free (as in All code is licensed under a BSD License) so you can browse and play with all the code and even use it for commercial projects.

Click here to go to IFBIN and download the IFBIN service

Written by Jens C Brynildsen (August 06th 2006)