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

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  • spark-joy

    ✨😂 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

    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

    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.

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  • excalidraw

    Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

  • intellij-community

    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

    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 :/

  • SaaSHub

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