Such a wonderful feedback! Let me try to address some of it in just one comment.
@Theo_Christiaanse You are real heroes! I’m sure you were extremely glad to see such a great tool made in Clojure and I’m sure you can imagine why. You probably already read this post by Andrey on our choice of technology but I want to repost it here for other curious people out there.
@David_O That’s so nice to hear. When people say “you deserve it” and they mean it, it makes a huge difference to us because we honestly don’t feel that way, we just want to make things happen. We’re so privileged to be able to dream of something and then build it in a collaborative way that the only things that matters to us is, “will this have enough of a good impact for the rest of the world?” So reading “your deserve this (attention, good news, success)” helps us pause for a moment and simply smile big!
@imacrea I might actually use some of what you said in our landing at some point! “pave the way to a future where real UX innovation will arise first within open sourced apps” sounds like dreaming big! And yeah, we plan to stay MPL for ever and find great ways to get funding without ever compromising that!
@SirMotte I keep reading this “Figma refugee” thing and it’s really terrible. Your idea of taking donations is a sound one and the team’s take on this is that if we take donations, we will redirect that money towards community projects. That might mean sponsoring local community events or funding some individual effort, I think it’d be fair to be able to manage those donations in a way that benefits the community as a whole, everyone wins.
@anton We honestly think beyond Figma. The recent news has put us under a Figma versus Penpot lens and we’re happy to have chosen a designer-first experience for the first couple of years of development work but very soon you’ll see we start to depart from designer-centric design/prototype tool. Regarding a potential sell-out, as I was telling some on Twitter earlier today is that good thing about Penpot being open source and open standards-driven is that you just have to trust the process, not a particular CEO.
Thanks so much! The whole team can feel this warmth all around them!
