Have been self-hosting this on Docker/Portainer for several weeks for a few people. Works fine so far.
Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
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#12You don't just have to self-host, they offer a hosted version that's far more reasonably priced than Figma[1].
Their free tier supports up to 8 members, limited to 10GB of storage.
The next tier supports unlimited members, and is price-capped at $175 a month, but is limited to 25GB of storage.
The final tier is price-capped at $950 a month, with unlimited storage.
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#13Unstable, very crash prone with just a few users designing 10 plus pages. And a huge memory hog too. I run it on Dedicated server with 64GB Ram , it starts to lag as soon as a 5-6 pages and memory 20GB, lagging out the whole team and then crashes.
Figma is a huge memory hog, too...
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#14I tried to self host penpot a few months ago but the app would crash after a few minutes and not properly show the canvases. So a no for me
They seem to update very frequently; I don't know if it still crashes now — I'm planning to try it myself.
What i tested happned 5 months ago. if the issue exist 1 month ago too it is the same problem.
The problem lies with the whole thing is XML and SVG unlike Figma's Canvas/WebASM . The whole thing is unable to scale.
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#15With the integration of AI, people are using Figma for more than just design.
A recent use-case that a friend was gushing about:
- Input notes, data into Figma and ask its AI to summarize it into presentation worthy slides with built-in games to keep meeting members engaged, and host them to a website.
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#16It’s indeed a reasonably usable tool. Gets very slow with large canvases though, so don’t put everything into a single canvas.
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#17Penpot has been invaluable! A very nice system and team. 'On prem' Figma has a lot of unique possibilities.
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#18I was immediately drawn to the emoji in the commit message titles. I love this team. It's so endearing.
While I agree, I'm not sure it's a team, it looks like mostly one dude :)
Penpot is a startup that raised $12M a few years back:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/02/penpot-the-open-source-pla...
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#19Lunacy is amazing for me. Very fast and intuitive.
Tried Penpot, it was laggy and non usable.
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#20For folks who want a stand-alone desktop release: https://github.com/author-more/penpot-desktop/releases
That's a pity:
> Penpot Desktop loads the Penpot web application like a browser does. For offline use, the built-in local instance creator can set up and run a local Penpot instance via Docker (per the official self‑hosting guide).