Show HN: Polotno Studio – Canva-like design editor, without signups or ads(studio.polotno.dev)
studio.polotno.dev
Show HN: Polotno Studio – Canva-like design editor, without signups or ads
https://studio.polotno.dev/
34 comments
I am creator of Polotno.
Thanks for the kind words.
From my view, the hole in the market is not customer support and features requests. Fabric.js and konva (that is used inside Polotno) are "low-level" libraries. They are providing a DOM-like API to the canvas. That is it. In order to make a full canvas editor, you have to write a lot of code on top of fabric, or konva, or any other library, or SVG.
https://polotno.dev/ - is designed to solve a very narrow business need. So you can build a full editor with much less code (almost no code at all). It may be less flexible, but it is the tradeoff for solving one problem in a good way.
Thanks for the kind words.
From my view, the hole in the market is not customer support and features requests. Fabric.js and konva (that is used inside Polotno) are "low-level" libraries. They are providing a DOM-like API to the canvas. That is it. In order to make a full canvas editor, you have to write a lot of code on top of fabric, or konva, or any other library, or SVG.
https://polotno.dev/ - is designed to solve a very narrow business need. So you can build a full editor with much less code (almost no code at all). It may be less flexible, but it is the tradeoff for solving one problem in a good way.
Yep that's correct.
Building a product is usually the easy(and enjoyable) part. Building the business logic is a slow, unenjoyable trudge.
On https://polotno.dev/#price
> Fof non-commercial or development usage only
> Fof non-commercial or development usage only
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Looks really good!!!
Consider (down the dev road) export options that optimize the image, like https://tinypng.com/ (I have no affiliation w/ them, other than as a user).
Consider (down the dev road) export options that optimize the image, like https://tinypng.com/ (I have no affiliation w/ them, other than as a user).
Very nice. However, it took a moment to realise that you cannot drag objects to the canvas but have to click on them first. Then you can move them around.
It is great, well done.
error -> pdf export doesn't work as intented when canvas size changed. scales page elements to fit predefined (I think) page size.
error -> pdf export doesn't work as intented when canvas size changed. scales page elements to fit predefined (I think) page size.
That is a bad bug. Thanks for the feedback!
Really clean and good! Bookmarking the website now.
The title seems a little disingenuous, as Canva does not have ads or require signup.
so many features missing to be considered Canva-like, hopefully it can evolve into fitting that description but now I think it is a stretch and a little misleading to make the comparison.
What is meant by "canvas"? Obviously not the HTML Canvas element, right?
Not "canvas" but "Canva", referring to https://www.canva.com/
Oh, my eyes are getting bad obviously.
After playing around with it for a bit, I really love it!
One thing I found myself needing: Is there a way to manage the z-index of your layers? (e.g. send layer to back, etc)
One thing I found myself needing: Is there a way to manage the z-index of your layers? (e.g. send layer to back, etc)
Even on a mobile device it's neat
Well done
Actually works decently on mobile (iOS chrome)
Really nice! It looks like there is a typo in the title of the site: "fee" instead of "free"
Nice.. but what makes Canva valuable isn't the tool itself.. It's the templates. Add some templates
Yes canva is a beast
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Looking good so far! Excited to implement it in my next project
Well done, mate! Truly a wonderful job.
Why would I ever use this over figma?
Looks neat
Coming from Teespring and recently at Figma, I’ve seen both sides of this problem: home rolling a teeshirt maker in canvas and also trying to use parts of an editor at Figma for marketing (wasn’t decoupled enough). I’m excited to see where this team takes this and grows.