Remember when Adobe bought Figma for $20 Billion and then open source alternative Penpot then raised $8M towards being a legit community driven alternative?
Penpot have now, four months later, released a 'feature parity' release in adding Flexible layouts and better Dev support tools.
Penpot could now be a serious consideration for design & dev teams with this release.
> Remember when Adobe bought Figma for $20 Billion and then open source alternative Penpot then raised $8M towards being a legit community driven alternative?
It is not 'a legit community driven alternative' since that $8 million of VC money is not theirs. Penpot is now controlled by VCs and it is growth at all costs and head for a acquisition or IPO.
Who is to say that Penpot would start close-sourcing some features or having a secret closed-source version only available as a SaaS offering and some of the code won't be available to the community?
Depending on the VCs involvement and how much Penpot is making, I won't be surprised to see Penpot starting to hide some features in the open-source version and add them only in the paid hosted SaaS version.
Have a look at their new flexible layout feature. The way the feature is designed around the css layout spec makes for a killer feature IMHO. Finally getting designers talking and thinking within the constraints that devs are bound by.
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[ 219 ms ] story [ 287 ms ] threadPenpot have now, four months later, released a 'feature parity' release in adding Flexible layouts and better Dev support tools.
Penpot could now be a serious consideration for design & dev teams with this release.
It is not 'a legit community driven alternative' since that $8 million of VC money is not theirs. Penpot is now controlled by VCs and it is growth at all costs and head for a acquisition or IPO.
Who is to say that Penpot would start close-sourcing some features or having a secret closed-source version only available as a SaaS offering and some of the code won't be available to the community?
Depending on the VCs involvement and how much Penpot is making, I won't be surprised to see Penpot starting to hide some features in the open-source version and add them only in the paid hosted SaaS version.