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Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app

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783 points Keavon | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 22:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

For the past three years I've been building what I hope will be the next Blender, tackling the lack of any good 2D design or image editing tools outside the Adobe monopoly. This was our first year participating in Google Summer of Code and this Q3 update includes the big payoff from that, covering the most progress we've made so far as a project. If you're a Rust dev, consider getting involved as we apply for the next GSoC in the new year— you could be our intern next summer :)

Q3 progress report: https://graphite.rs/blog/graphite-progress-report-q3-2024/

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emmanueloga_ ◴[16 Oct 24 01:10 UTC] No.41854698[source]▶
Wow this looks fantastic! Good open-source tools for design are so necessary [1].

You should probably add Graphite to this list [2]. I'll definitely try Graphite and follow its progress.

Good luck!

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1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lthVYUB8JLs

2: https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives

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devsda ◴[16 Oct 24 03:59 UTC] No.41855466[source]▶
Adding to the above, in a way this can also be self hosted and is a candidate for the awesome selfhosted list [1].

1. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

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Keavon ◴[16 Oct 24 04:06 UTC] No.41855508[source]▶
It looks like that list tends more towards home-server self-hosted SaaS kinds of software rather than desktop apps. With our upcoming desktop app, and the fact that you can install it right now as a PWA, there's really no benefit from self-hosting. Your data is already client-side, so there's nothing for the server to do besides act as a CDN and send some tiny static assets. Unless people are going somewhere without internet, there's really no point in self-hosting the static files instead of using our CDN. Since we don't even have a server backend (except for a proxy to the Google Fonts API which we need to keep our API key private).
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devsda ◴[16 Oct 24 04:47 UTC] No.41855706[source]▶
I (mis?)understood one of the features for 1.0 "Cloud document storage" as some sort of custom storage server, webdav or other remote filesystem support.

If there's no plan for that or if its limited to usual suspects like GDrive, Dropbox etc., then I guess there's not much benefit to selfhosting.

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1. Keavon ◴[16 Oct 24 04:53 UTC] No.41855739{3}[source]▶
That's all far-future stuff that will let us continue to grow towards our larger ambitions further down the roadmap with a revenue stream that isn't purely dependent upon donations, which isn't sustainable on its own. It will always be a purely separate value-add that's not shoved down the throat of users— a subset of users will find that helpful and pay for the storage and most users won't care and won't be bothered about it. But we don't have any of that yet, and won't for a while.