goodbarber was born from the merger of two french software companies, duoapps and webzinemaker, it was founded in 2001, in ajaccio (corsica), by françois-sébastien simoni and 3 associates (j. pietri, p. chiappe and f. bernardini). at the beginnings, the goodbarber's platform performed as generator of blogs in saas mode, websites and webtvs. in 2011, duoapps and webzinemaker officially launched the native mobile application builder named goodbarber in order to develop and market a technical solution to build native ios and android applications and progressive web apps, for content publishing and ecommerce shopping stores. also used as content management system by some research organizations.