Just paying Figma $15/month because nothing else fucking works

• spark-joy

  37 9,204 6.8 JavaScript

  ✨😂 2000+ ways to add design flair, user delight, and whimsy to your product.

what about Excalidraw / TLDraw? there are so many of these canvas drawing apps[1]. draw on them, take a screenshot. doesnt export to svg but do people really need that?

[1]: https://github.com/swyxio/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#ge...

• penpot

  223 27,234 10.0 Clojure

  Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration

  

A colleague had a quick presentation on Penpot[1] a few weeks back. Was a real contender I think.

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

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• excalidraw

  373 72,707 9.5 TypeScript

  Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

  

• intellij-community

  101 16,567 10.0

  IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

  

I had the same experience with OmniGraffle, https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle

It just worked. There was support. I wouldn't dig a hole in the ground with my bare hands, why wouldn't I use good tools. Of course I would like to use F/OSS for various reasons.

The model I absolutely love is Jetbrains, their core product is OSS, Apache licensed. The whole thing, totally usable. https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

The money I send their way does both, it pays for developers and it puts an amazing artifact in the world that others can use and learn from. If they weren't open source, I wouldnt pay for it. I don't know how many others are the same as me, but Jetbrains really deserves credit here.

• Akira

  20 5,227 1.6 Vala

  Native Linux App for UI and UX Design built in Vala and GTK

  

I really wish Akira (https://github.com/akiraux/Akira) had worked out :/

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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