Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
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givemeethekeys
3 minutes ago
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With the integration of AI, people are using Figma for more than just design.

A recent use-case that a friend was gushing about:

- Input notes, data into Figma and ask its AI to summarize it into presentation worthy slides with built-in games to keep meeting members engaged, and host them to a website.

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Alupis
24 minutes ago
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You don't just have to self-host, they offer a hosted version that's far more reasonably priced than Figma[1].

Their free tier supports up to 8 members, limited to 10GB of storage.

The next tier supports unlimited members, and is price-capped at $175 a month, but is limited to 25GB of storage.

The final tier is price-capped at $950 a month, with unlimited storage.

[1] https://penpot.app/pricing

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nullzzz
3 minutes ago
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It’s indeed a reasonably usable tool. Gets very slow with large canvases though, so don’t put everything into a single canvas.
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WillAdams
2 hours ago
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For folks who want a stand-alone desktop release:

https://github.com/author-more/penpot-desktop/releases

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vsviridov
24 minutes ago
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Have been self-hosting this on Docker/Portainer for several weeks for a few people. Works fine so far.
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b3ing
2 hours ago
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I think Figma stole the grid layout idea from penpot, but it’s common in software to do that
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v3ss0n
1 hour ago
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Unstable, very crash prone with just a few users designing 10 plus pages. And a huge memory hog too.

I run it on Dedicated server with 64GB Ram , it starts to lag as soon as a 5-6 pages and memory 20GB, lagging out the whole team and then crashes.

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shakna
21 minutes ago
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Figma is a huge memory hog, too...
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Myzel394
2 hours ago
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I tried to self host penpot a few months ago but the app would crash after a few minutes and not properly show the canvases. So a no for me
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zonghao
47 minutes ago
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They seem to update very frequently; I don't know if it still crashes now — I'm planning to try it myself.
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v3ss0n
15 minutes ago
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What i tested happned 5 months ago. if the issue exist 1 month ago too it is the same problem.

The problem lies with the whole thing is XML and SVG unlike Figma's Canvas/WebASM . The whole thing is unable to scale.

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echelon
2 hours ago
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I was immediately drawn to the emoji in the commit message titles.

I love this team. It's so endearing.

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tyleo
2 hours ago
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While I agree, I'm not sure it's a team, it looks like mostly one dude :)
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jhancock
2 hours ago
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Thats Clojure...one person can look like a whole team ;)

couldn't help being cheeky...actually there are quite a few contributors.

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8organicbits
1 hour ago
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