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Re: Show HN: Github for Designers

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Post by dsawler »

shravan wrote: post #18
dsawler wrote: post #14

Is 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.

Oh, that's great. Those are the only two I use :) Excited to try this out!

Re: Show HN: Github for Designers

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Post by jskopek »

Clever of them to show a custom welcome message for Hacker News visitors. I love how it jumps you right into a demo app with no login or registration steps.

The functionality and usefulness of this service is fantastic, but I wonder how hard it would be for github itself to compete; they've shown that they can do simpler binary versioning and comparison with PNG/JPEG images, so all they'd have to do is add support for previewing PSD files as well. Whether that's a simple thing to support is not something I'm qualified to answer though :)

Re: Show HN: Github for Designers

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Post by freshfey »

I think you might be onto something here. However I'd focus heavily on the designers who don't know github. Because hackers 'round here are going to tell you to just use github, because it make so much sense for them.

Re: Show HN: Github for Designers

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Post by thesash »

jskopek wrote: post #25

Clever of them to show a custom welcome message for Hacker News visitors. I love how it jumps you right into a demo app with no login or registration steps. The functionality and usefulness of this service is fantastic, but I wonder how hard it would be for github itself to compete; they've shown that they can do simpler binary versioning and comparison with PNG/JPEG images, so all they'd have to do is add support fo…

I think psd versioning is outside of github's core competency. We've used distributed version control for design files, and it really doesnt support a natural workflow. Background syncing just seems much more natural as a solution to the problem since the files tend to be very large, and are compounded by rapid generation and disposal of many many versions.
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