I will gladly pay for this as a hosted service. This is amazing!
Penpot Alpha Release – Free and Open-Source Design Plattform
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#22Heh, once again, hackernews makes a difference. Thank you guys! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtQIzT9XIAA5DRJ?format=jpg&name=...
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#23Really cool. I think using standard JS or TS with a standard UI framework (like Vue, React, Svelte, etc.) would have attracted more contributors than Clojure. But otherwise , I'm really looking forward that project !
I hear you! The thing is that sometimes (only sometimes) you do need to use the best technology for a project. In this case, Penpot's very own nature demands technology that is super-performant manipulating zillions of vectors and mathematical objects. I'm not saying you couldn't do this with standard JS or TS but to reach this status in 1 year we needed to go for this route. Anyway, we have plans for a more straight…
That seems totally fair, thanks for your response. If the core is powerful thx to the choice of tech while plugins can be contributed easily then it sounds like a great plan !
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#24Very awesome - currently in the process of evaluating these colab tools.
One question: how are you guys planning on funding the online version? Will there be licence pricing in future?
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#25Wow! I'm quite impressed! An open source sketch-like app with the collaborative aspects of figma? Multiple shadow layers? all of the google fonts already there? Wow! Sign me up! I figure if it came in the desktop version it would eat up a quite bit of sketch/figma market. Stuff I seem to be missing at first: 1. Double click to go to Component definition 2. Resize/collapse sidebars 3. I get an internal error on shift+…
Wow, thats great feedback, let me write all that down! I'll tell you this already, desktop version is on the roadmap, we will probably produce an electron-based "native" app that can "install". We kind of like the idea of having the best of both worlds. That's also the beauty of open source, what's the risk really? Feel free to go to https://github.com/penpot/penpot and elaborate on those topics! Thank you!
Oh right, it's open source. Wanted to ask if you use any engines for the layouting part, but I can just check. See, I'm so used to all these tools being closed source I forgot I can open up an issue. I'll get to it after exploring a bit more. Hope the electron app can sustain performance!
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#26I've been working on a similar project - open source interface design tool with SVG as document format. Glad to see others think it's a good idea, too. There's an impressive amount of functionality just in the alpha release. Looking forward to seeing how it evolves!
It's evolving as we speak. Full-time excellent team, go go go!
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#27Thanks! Very promising. Another thing that surprised me is low latency and usability: I signed up, clicked "New Project" and it showed me editor. Like INSTANTLY.
I hope it'll be more or less on the same level later. It feels like magic especially after extremely slow and laggy Figma (seriously, modern 3D games with tons of polygons are working much smoother than web-based tool for drawing colorful rectangles).
Awesome work!
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#28I'm very back-end oriented (read basically 0 design knowledge and 0 knowledge of design tools). Whenever my friends wanted to show me something on Figma or I had to sketch something on Figma I strongly disliked it. I get overwhelmed in the interface and have no idea how to do some basic stuff. I think that's mainly because there are too many options, when really I just want to do some basic stuff.
I just tried doing some quick sketches in Penpot for a project I was working on, and found the interface way better for my use case. Granted that I didn't spend a lot of time in Figma or Penpot, but for the amount of time I've spent in each app, Penpot seems superior to me in terms of usability for my use cases as someone who just needs something quick and simple.