Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions
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Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions
#2Interesting, never heard of it. I've been using Affinity since ~2017.
Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions
#3> But it has a few problems. It takes up a ton of computing power and battery, which makes it difficult to use on old/slow computers. And the biggest thing, cost.
Given it's a Javascript program I'm not sure how Photopea solves those problems with Adobe Photoshop other than cost.
Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions
#4> But it has a few problems. It takes up a ton of computing power and battery, which makes it difficult to use on old/slow computers. And the biggest thing, cost. Given it's a Javascript program I'm not sure how Photopea solves those problems with Adobe Photoshop other than cost.
Photopea is very usable on lower-spec machines that grind to a halt when Photoshop is open.
It also "boots" almost instantly, and doesn't require installing anything other than a browser.
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#5There 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.
Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions
#6Interesting, never heard of it. I've been using Affinity since ~2017.
photopea is one of the best examples of a web application imo. Its a full featured image editing software just running in your browser. No sign up or login required and you can just upload and quickly work off a local file for your computer. You just fire it up and start working.
Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions
#7> But it has a few problems. It takes up a ton of computing power and battery, which makes it difficult to use on old/slow computers. And the biggest thing, cost. Given it's a Javascript program I'm not sure how Photopea solves those problems with Adobe Photoshop other than cost.
it could do what figma does, use web assembly and web workers
Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions
#8First off kudos to Ivan - both because i love being a fan of the underdog, but also because what he built really is great! (Maybe a little also because i am definitely NOT a fan of adobe. sorry.)
There are a cople of quotes here that are intriguing to me...
> "...From 2012 - 2016, Photopea had no monetization plans built in. And after graduation, Ivan only produced $29k in the first year and a half of monetizing..."
"Only" $29k!?! "Only" $29k!? I don't know about anyone else, but i actually find that number to be wonderful. Not everyone needs to be facebook-level monetized for their first year. I wish my startup/saas service monetized that much on its first year!
> "...Photopea is web-based, but it also is completely built using Javascript with no backend. This means it works offline with no internet connection and doesn't require huge computing power..."
I'll admit that when i first learned of photopea - from my offspring no less during one of their homework assignments! - i was impressed right away. Even if it was online only...But i guess i never knew that it can be used offline too! I guess i'll have to play around with it offline. Further, if it is in fact offline usable, well that impresses me a bit from a javascript perspective. I'll admit that i'm not the biggest fan of javascript...but if this kind of comprehensive application can be built with javascript and be usable offline, that's pretty dan impressive, and i guess i gotta give javascript much more respect (and of course play wuith things myself). (Yes, yes, i know that there are Electron apps that leverage lots of javascript for offline purposes, etc...but this thing was built on mostly maintained by one person!)
Finally, I really appreciate that they noted that this was not one of those instant success stories.
> "...these features weren't built in a day, Ivan spent the better part of 10 years slowly building out Photopea! He's solved over 4,000 feature requests and issues on GitHub alone!...With no paid marketing, Photopea found success through AMAs and old-fashioned, word-of-mouth sharing..."
Once again, kudos to Ivan for such a wonderful thing that he built, and for providing with himself a livelihood!!
Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions
#9There 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.
It has a $3/month Premium account tier for no ads, increased storage, and double the steps history.
Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions
#10There 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.
It offers paid account for $3.3/mo with 5GB of cloud storage. See red Account button on the menu bar.