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Have you written to Dylan from Figma? He was around 20 when he came up with the idea for Figma and got funders behind him. You NEED to make this happen, Alyssa! This has been a need for very very long.

I think you can almost jump past the MVP stage for validation, this is a pure execution problem and you need to get money, make this your full-time job, and execute asap given your excitement on this problem!

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Figma is such a nicely polished product. I've only used it in fits and spurts, but it's easily as good an experience as Sketch. Our design team uses it all the time, and their technical blog posts have been incredible reading.

I know about his story with Figma, and AFAIK he managed to push it forward through the Thiel Fellowship (which I've considered myself too).

Honestly as I've mentioned in the post I've been quite excited about the product (specially when I managed to make the MVP useful enough to replace AE for simple GIFs, I even use the tool for that purpose) and my initial plan was definitely to make this happen, but I haven't really seen a solid way to go about it full-time without taking a huge risk, specially at my age.

Your age is exactly when you should be taking huge risks.

Take the risk! It’s clear that you have a very rare combination of design, programming, communication, and marketing skills. The sky is the limit :)

If you want to stay independent and go(?) open source then going on patreon might work. At least it works modestly for others[1].

[1] https://www.patreon.com/andrewrk

Taking risks is only going to get harder the older you get. Now or never!

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