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Vectorpea: Online Tool for Vector Graphics

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Photopea has completely replaced my Photoshop usage, and now that I have an Illustrator equivalent, that monthly creative cloud subscription isn't looking too appealing...

When a solo dev successfully competes with a multi-billion 30+ year entrenched corp. Gives us all solo makers a hope and proof it can be done.

Photoshop wasn't really "there" until 5, maybe 6. It's easier to clone than it is to create.

I agree Photopea is great but they're asking $8 a month which is only $2 less than Photoshop

The comparison is not quite equal. Because if I don’t pay for photopea, I can still use it for free with ads. So in effect it’s like a pay-what-you-want pricing model.

Photopea and Vectorpea live in the intersection between Photoshop/Illustrator and apps like Canva, which, let’s just accept it, is the vast majority of users out there.

Pull back for a moment and consider where this is going. If we’re talking three-legged stools, good raster and vector editors held up by the browser means they’ve got a seat at the table. Adobe is literally spending billions trying to achieve the same thing.

This stuff should be baked into the browser at this point, but we’ll eventually get there. With decent raster and vector tools you can build diagrams, whiteboards, pagination, presentation, animation, app mock-ups, even throwaway social media banners—-and it’s all scriptable and multi-player when it’s in a browser. And it’s easier to tack on “AI” when your workflow (another example) is in a browser to begin with.

Don't you also have to subscribe to Photoshop for a year?

With a large 4K monitor, I just tolerate the ads.

How is this guy like 1000x more productive than a typical developer? Seriously, some business school should do a case study on him to figure out what he’s doing differently!

i imagine it's 1) he reports to himself 2) doesn't have 5 levels of product owners/project managers "figuring out what's best for the end user" that, often doesn't align with the end user's needs and 3) reports to himself

Yeah I’m sure that’s part of it. I think he’s also just ridiculously good at programming and knows how to squeeze every ounce of performance out of a WASM app. One thing he has going for him is that the app design was basically done already for him by hundreds of people over 20+ years to design the original Photoshop interface (he’s basically totally stealing all of that from some old version of Photoshop, maybe version 6 from 2000 or so). It’s still an absolutely insane amount of work though.

you are over estimating the amount of software work it takes when you do it right.

it doesnt take a lot to be 1000x more productive in the software world and there are many ways to get there.

10x, sure. 100x, I know there are plenty of people like that across the whole world. I don’t think there are many 1000x devs, and it certainly does take a lot to get there!

This is great news. I am a long time Inkscape user, but every time I open it for quick edits on macOS I am overwhelmed by performance issues and crashes. I resort to using Figma nowadays but it doesn’t work exactly like a vector graphics editor.

I hope the author pulls of the same black magic they did with Photopea.

If you're quick-editing SVG, Boxy SVG is pretty quick and easy for that.

Slightly off but Photopea is great even better than gimp imo when it come to psd compatibility. Inkscape is good for vector or ai files, will try this next time

Pretty good for a beta! I uploaded an SVG of my company logo, played around with the colours of the shapes, and exported as a large PNG file - it worked perfectly.

I'm genuinely excited for this. Photopea is great. It's like 80% of the original's functionality.

I don't need to edit vectors illustrations often but when I do I've found it painful. Will definitely turn to this when that happens. (Haven't used product but have blind confidence based on Photopea).

I've been looking for a good browser based vector editor and https://editor.graphite.rs/ looks promising aswell.

I’m honestly just surprised that no one snagged the domain vectorpea.com given how popular photopea.com has been.

For a moment I thought maybe he registered it a long time ago but nope.

  Registered On
  2023-01-27

https://who.is/whois/vectorpea.com

And it expires on 2024-01-27

Talk about not committing untill proven.

That part is pretty normal though. Or do you guys pay your domains multiple years at a time? Personally I renew mine yearly for the most part.

Sometimes it's a question of accounting, depending on how the budgets are managed, it might be difficult to justify spending on something for 3 years later, if there's no real requirement to do so.

Add a year each year (so it's an annual action item) but keep the expiry date at least 3 years away.

For some (family email, my email, super-vanity domain), I register them as far in advance as I can whenever they get close (ie <1y) to expiring. Just avoids hassles.

Simply auto renewed?

Amazing! I recommend Photopea to people all the time who need some PS-like functionality the odd time.

Photopea is extraordinarily good, and I'm very happy if this one is going to approach the same quality

I love photopea, will be looking into this one!

please don't hijack regular browser shortcuts, or prevent them from working.

alt-d to select url bar is not working

Don't you think a full web app is something different than a webpage?

I think there should be options, that are opt-in

Alt-d on my browser adds a Bookmark. I see no problem in hijacking that shortcut.

Are you everyone?

That is only one example of a shortcut which doesn't work.

There is ... another.

that's good, but it's also more movement than alt-d which I can do one handed without moving.

That was just one example anyway, other shortcuts are blocked too

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