Is it just me or is the server very slow? I guess it's getting hammered to death right now.
Show HN: Github for Designers
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#12I'm trying to come up with something more interesting to say than "Wow". I've wished I had this a few times. I think the only thing that you lose here is access to an actual "diff", but visually, you get most of it. Grats on a fantastic achievement.
Thanks for the kind words, Andrew. I'm not sure if you found it but you can compare multiple revisions side by side and also overlay revisions to see what's changed.
I think Andrew might mean the ability to see changes in a non-visual fashion. IE: Layer 2 removed, Layer 3 Blending mode changed.
Someone was working on a .js PSD file parser, which may be of interest down the line but it was in early stages.
Great product, I love the idea. Well done.
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#13Very slick (which is important, because designers by nature have high standards). Quite a lot of potential I think.
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#14Is this only for Photoshop? What about Fireworks or Illustrator?
When I click for an invitation, I get an Application Error (An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.
If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.)
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#15I'm trying to come up with something more interesting to say than "Wow". I've wished I had this a few times. I think the only thing that you lose here is access to an actual "diff", but visually, you get most of it. Grats on a fantastic achievement.
Thanks for the kind words, Andrew. I'm not sure if you found it but you can compare multiple revisions side by side and also overlay revisions to see what's changed.
It took me awhile to find it, because in FF 10 on Windows, the X|Y button is showing up as an FL (it looks like it might be a sprite issue? the buttons on the bottom have the same problem) but once I found it, I liked it a lot.
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#16I've been thinking about how a GitHub for designers would work. This doesn't quite seem like "it" to me. Don't take that remark the wrong way, I like what's been done here. It's well designed and I could see a use for it.
But that's just it, I have to find a use for it. It isn't immediately obvious to me. I'm not the typical designer as I don't have clients and my job isn't 100% design but I have been designing everything from packaging, to print advertisements, to websites for ten years. I don't know why I would use this. If I need alternate versions of files I just save them with version numbers. The poor man's version control. But I don't need anything more than that - do other designers?
The power of Github I believe is that it allows programmers to share their work with their colleagues, learn from others, and work together with others.
I like Dribbble because it allows designers to do what they want to do with their colleagues. Show off their work and get inspiration from other designers. To me, Dribbble is the closest thing to a Github for designers.
What's missing from Dribbble is the collaborative part. Coders working with coders, designers with designers. But that's the problem. Coders have to work with other coders all the time it's the nature of the beast. Designers do not in the same way. In my experience.
So if it's not designers with designers then it's designers with coders. And a place for those who (like me) both design and code to both showcase our work and to work together with others. If you could turn this into a Dribbble + Github I think that would be interesting.
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#17Why do I buy this instead of Layer Vault?
We think LayerVault is great and they're doing some stuff that's similar to us. There's a few things we're doing differently.
When we first came up with this idea, we really needed a good way to comment & annotate and keep all that feedback inline instead of it spilling over into email. The second is that we provide an easy way to diff revisions side by side or overlay them to see what has actually changed. Behind the scenes, we actually work quite differently from LayerVault, particularly on large files. I'd love to talk to you more to see how we can help you. Please email me shravan@pixelapse.com.
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#18Is this only for Photoshop? What about Fireworks or Illustrator? When I click for an invitation, I get an Application Error (An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.)
Hey dsawler, Pixelapse works with Fireworks and Illustrator as well & we're looking to add new formats. Is there a format in particular you'd like to see?
Re: the app error. We underestimated the load on the site. :) We just scaled up so if you refresh and try again, you should be able to sign up.
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#19Is it just me or is the server very slow? I guess it's getting hammered to death right now.
Yeah, we didn't anticipate this making it to the top. We just scaled up so it should be faster now.
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#20Really cool idea. We could use this everyday. Have you thought about what the price is going to be? Will it be per doc, or per GB of storage used?