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comezkandirali | 3 months ago

Why don’t they provide a desktop version, similar to software such as GIMP, Inkscape, and others? Do they believe they cannot achieve the desired revenue through crowdfunding? Many projects—most notably Blender—have been highly successful using this approach. It seems unreasonable that an average designer should be required to learn server administration

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boriskourt|3 months ago

I am not sure what you are really asking here. They have almost 20k commits of frontend and server code [0] over half a decade of development. What would a desktop version of this look like outside of a bundled Tauri/Electron wrapper?

[0]: https://github.com/penpot/penpot

comezkandirali|3 months ago

I am not a software developer. There are many people who think like me...

wltr|3 months ago

The closest analogy would be Sketch for macOS, which Figma simply copied at first, and then mostly replaced. I would love to see open source Sketch for open source systems.

Valodim|3 months ago

You mean which Figma replaced in the market, because they were not limited to a native app?

This is imo a cautionary tale that being a native app primarily is a bad idea in this year.

boriskourt|3 months ago

Figma has set an expectation for designers that their projects support multi-user editing by default and are available to clients, teammates and stakeholders without having to install anything. Its hard to go against that kind of productivity in any org.

Penpot provides the same.

b3ing|3 months ago

Sketch copied Fireworks, which Adobe abandoned after buying out Macromedia. I knew XD would fail, which is funny because Adobe had the best UI tool but didn’t know what to do with it.

They still are really clueless, Animate has had hardly any updates in 13yrs, yet other animation tools offer a lot of innovative features.