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Comment by jelder | Hacker News Reader

I’ve never heard of penpot before, and the blog post barely helps. From the name I guess that had something to do with penetration testing or honeypots. It really bugs me when clicking on the logo of a site like this takes me to the blog index rather than the general landing page so I can figure out what the thing is.

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The Penpot Features page [1] proclaims, "Penpot is the Open-Source Design Tool for Design and Code Collaboration" and "A browser-based design tool that gets the web. Create beautiful user interfaces in collaboration with all team members. Keep consistency at scale with components, libraries and design systems." The page describes dozens of specific features.

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

I feel like I see a post like this every time someone releases a new version of something. These posts are clearly pitching to the already converted, but there has to be a way to anticipate the curious outsider, right?

My understanding is that it's an open source Figma.

> It really bugs me when clicking on the logo of a site like this takes me to the blog index rather than the general landing page so I can figure out what the thing is.

I somewhat agree; it's the default behavior of many message boards (in this case, Discourse). However this is useful when trying to get back to the index of the message board.

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You probably haven't read it but the footer description is good enough "Penpot is the first Open Source design and prototyping platform meant for cross-domain teams." The small animation on the homepage is also clear enough.

Some people still use google this days when they haven't heard about something.

Even the link in the header takes you to the tool itself (where you need to create an account to get anywhere).

Main site link here: https://penpot.app/

It's a release announcement of an existing product, so obviously it's tailored to people who are anticipating an update and want to know whats in it.

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