So that did not work out, but I used it a bit and interacted with him couple of times there, before moving on to easel and later pixi, after it became clear it would not take off and the other ones had more support.
Glad for him to found success with Photopea later, and he definitely has my sympathy here.
But I doubt this will work out much longer in the long run. It is just too easy cloning and improving projects with AI.
That's a dangerous word. Did you mean adding more features?
Photopea is not, and has never been open source, AFAIK.
It’s like mentioning your nephew is pretty good at the piano, when people are discussing if John Williams was copying Holst.
A rip off would be using the actual Photoshop source code.