Pixelapse is joining Dropbox

Props, but this should've been the lead sentence in the post:

    Pixelapse as a standalone product will
    continue to operate and be supported
    for the next year as we work towards
    this goal, at which point we’ll offer
    a migration plan for your work.

Pixelapse looks similar to what Drew described in his YC application, responding to the question "If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, feel free to list them. One may be something we've been waiting for.":

His response: ..."a wiki with version-controlled drawing canvases that let you draw diagrams or mock up UIs (Thinkature is kind of related, but this is more text with canvases interspersed than a shared whiteboard) to help teams get on the same page and spec things out better (we use Visio and Powerpoint at Bit9, which sucks)"

It's worth noting that Pixelapse is YC W12, and has only raised a little seed money since then. (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pixelapse)

Seems like a little bit of Y Combinator vertical integration.

Does anyone know if any open source alternatives exist, hosted or self-hosted? We were planning on moving away from Subversion for tracking changes to design related PDFs and PSDs and this seemed appealing due to the extra metadata that could be displayed with revisions but now we're back to square one.

One of the worst things at my previous job was when the designers forced pixelapse onto developers' workflow. It was so clumsy and there just wasn't any benefit over Google Drive.

Not even close to decent source control.

>We started Pixelapse with the mission of building the definitive version control and collaboration platform for creatives.

Ugh, stop calling them that.

Joining or was bought by?

Our Incredible Journey claims another.

Interesting though, Dropbox appears to be on a buying spree. They just claimed Cloudon last week, now this.