{"id":4742,"date":"2008-10-23T13:38:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog2.fusioncharts.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:10:26","slug":"happy-sixth-anniversary-fusioncharts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fusioncharts.com\/blog\/happy-sixth-anniversary-fusioncharts\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Sixth Anniversary FusionCharts: A Long Way Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"Today we turn six. It was October 23rd, 2002 when FusionCharts was first released to the public. And here we are now, six years older and wiser, telling you the story of how we grew up.\r\n\r\nWhen we were starting off, people did not take Flash seriously. It was considered a tool used to make ‘cool’ animations which could be put up on personal homepages. We challenged ourselves to change the world, or at least what it thought of Flash. We set ourselves a goal – to change the way web developers created charts for their applications, by leveraging interactive options provided by Macromedia Flash (version 5 then). And to achieve all this, we had one developer who did all the coding, documentation, sales and customer support and changed accents when you thought the call had been transferred from the sales to the technical department. We were putting up in a one-room office in a residential apartment which had enough space for the “developer” to stretch his hands and legs, one at a time. We had no revenue, no venture capital, no nothing except the little seed capital saved by our founder from his consulting gigs and a previous rudimentary charting product, whose complete sales database is still intact in his mind.\r\n\r\nSix years down the line, today we boast of:\r\n