Better than Figma!
I have only used Penpot (open source Figmaesque tool) for a few hours. But bloody hell is it good. So far, I'm tempted to say it's faster, better, harder, stronger than Figma.
No AI though. Which is a huge plus. (It may be possible to add some AI somehow, but.. why?)
Setting it up as self hosted was an absolute breeze. Like, I don't really understand what happened. Bish bash bosh and I was suddenly using it. This led to a bit of a scary issue: In all the excitement, I forgot to set up backups, which is hugely important when n00bs like me self host. Suddenly we rm -rf / and need to start over. No biggie for docker containers, very much an issue for actual work files.
I also forgot to set up SMTP for invitations, because everything worked so smoothly out of the box, I forgot to think about it.
Even memory handling seems to be set up smarter than I could ever set it up manually anyway.
So, yeah. This should probably be a long form article over on my newsletter but I'm sick so here we are.
So long, Figma!
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