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Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by quickthrower2 »

FortiDude wrote: post #13

Photopea should be GIMP's permanent embarrassment. I can't believe running a webapp offline written by a single person is more viable than a native program developed by a vast amount of contributors over decades.

This is very believable, it is called disruption and is standard in software. Old companies (or projects) will have the legacy of older technology. That 100k LOC ... is a liability too. You have to get your head around it. Many heads. And to change it, you have to work on ... "it". Not what you dream it to be.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by IceWreck »

mattbee wrote: post #42

Odds on Adobe making Ivan "an offer he can't refuse" then? They don't stand faster-moving competition for long, I hear.

It can work offline (on the frontend) so you can just wget & archive the latest working version and host it on your own domain.

It wont gain more features but it is an alternative.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by orra »

troymc wrote: post #29

I recently switched back to using Ubuntu as my desktop OS, and was intrigued to see that Photopea was the default app to open many file types, including PDF. I thought that was odd because while Photopea is free-of-charge, it's not completely open source [1]. [1] https://github.com/photopea/photopea

> while Photopea is free-of-charge, it's not completely open source

Quite the understatement. Photopea isn't open source at all.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by smackeyacky »

FortiDude wrote: post #13

Photopea should be GIMP's permanent embarrassment. I can't believe running a webapp offline written by a single person is more viable than a native program developed by a vast amount of contributors over decades.

He's done a fantastic job. Meanwhile the GIMP still doesn't have a "Save As..." menu item, you have to go through extra steps using "Export". Just a symptom of the attitude the UI projects.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by pier25 »

omnimus wrote: post #47
stavros wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? I heard Affinity Photo was great, though I haven't really used it.

It's pretty great. The whole Affinity suite is.

Photo is great but Designer still lacks fundamental features that users have been asking for many years. I haven't used Publisher.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by Hamuko »

sdfhbdf wrote: post #5

There is little to no time spent in this article on how photopea is monetized. I even went to the product itself to find out but couldn’t, at least on mobile. Is there some subscription? What do you pay for? Genuinely asking since I used it a few times and never noticed any payment nagging.

Open the website without an adblocker and you'll see how. There's huge banner ads on the side.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

FortiDude wrote: post #13

Photopea should be GIMP's permanent embarrassment. I can't believe running a webapp offline written by a single person is more viable than a native program developed by a vast amount of contributors over decades.

>vast amount of contributors over decades

Designed by by committee, through and through. The older I get the more it seem obvious not to do it, but other people keep jumping on to them.

USB, Bluetooth groups are responsible for some of the dumbest tech decisions in 20 years.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by secondcoming »

forte124 wrote: post #14
sdfhbdf wrote: post #5

There is little to no time spent in this article on how photopea is monetized. I even went to the product itself to find out but couldn’t, at least on mobile. Is there some subscription? What do you pay for? Genuinely asking since I used it a few times and never noticed any payment nagging.

Sorry, I interviewed Ivan and he said roughly 90% of the revenue comes from ads. I also asked him if he considered creating his own header bidding system, but he said this wasn’t worth it

Look at photopea.com/ads.txt. He's allowed most of adtech to sell his traffic.
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