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so, who has actually tried this and has anything to say about it? (besides the fact that is very funny to see it #2 with the sale of figma being #1)

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I tried it!

Good:

- It is a good copy of figmas UI. With much open source software, it often seems the UI comes last in priority and interest; Penpot’s UI is well working and looks good. - Basic features are all there - The team has build an open source online platform before, so they know what they do.

Bad:

- In design systems particularly at variants and states of components, it is not on figma’s level yet

Interesting:

- You can self-deploy (cause open) or use their free instance - Front- and backend are written in clojure/clojure script

I’ve used it for some designs and found it quite easy to work with. UI is very good (vs typical open source)

Challenging is the Figma ecosystem taking most mindshare. Eg trying to find someone on Fiverr to create PenPot designs is hard.

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