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78 pointslominming11y ago23 comments

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The landing page loads a whopping 6 MB of assets, the culprits particularly being two images at 3.2 and 1.8 MB. It was definitely not a fun experience on my lowly mobile network connection.

jrockway11y ago

Products can be beautiful and delightful, but I'm not sure it's meaningful when you call your own product beautiful and delightful.

solipsism11y ago

Meaningful, maybe not. Having a desirable marketing effect? Probably.

avemg11y ago

I don't know about that. It's certainly becoming a trite way to describe your product.

sanderjd11y ago

Agreed. Even if "beautiful" is a foundation of a company's strategy, I like it when they show me what I can do, and let me notice how beautiful they've made it.

moron4hire11y ago

Also agreed. It's a bit presumptuous to declare that your product possesses such subjective qualities.

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whiddershins11y ago

This sounds incredible, obviously the details are everything. Would be nice to see a comparison to other solutions, and an explanation of how infinite storage is possible/economical.

shravan11y ago

Hey, one of the founders of Pixelapse here. For context, our target demographic is graphic designers.

We initially started out with tiered pricing based on storage. However, based on usage, we actually found that people rarely hit their storage caps. A better barometer for us is the number of people working together, which we approximate with projects. In that regard, our pricing plans are similar to Github's. Public projects are free and unlimited. Private projects are paid.

solipsism11y ago

What products would you say are comparable to yours? Perforce comes to mind, though that's more of a "check out, check in" model, where this appears to be more of a dropbox model?

I'm not understanding how a version is identified, though. Is a version stored on the server every time the file is saved?

I don't see anything about locking. How do you prevent two people from working on the same unmergeable file at the same time?

Speaking of merging, there is no mention of merging of text files. Is that not supported?

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snowpalmer11y ago

How is Sketch file support? When we've tried to share files via Dropbox it's constantly stepping on each others toes just when someone tries to open it for view-only. Makes collaboration difficult between a designer and a developer.

*Sketch files are actually folders with data, previews, etc. The act of opening the file actually modifies things like the thumbnail.

lominmingOP11y ago

You are right that Sketch files (up till version 3.0.4) are actually file packages, but we support packages so it shows up as files online. This is the same as OmniGraffle and Keynote files which are actually folders. We have build our syncing technology to differentiate folders and package files.

Sketch just officially launched 3.1 two days ago which creates files that are actually single files. We can still support version control for these files, but we are working on fixing the preview generation for the new Sketch format.

erenemre11y ago

"Sketch's file format has changed; documents are now truly single files and can be safely emailed or shared via Dropbox and other services without having to zip them up first"

http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/support/updates/

RankingMember11y ago

"Hand-crafted in California". Is this Silicon Valley fetishism really still going on? It's like the "made on a Mac" of the '10s.

tankenmate11y ago

Now that Adobe will be supporting ChromeOS; will Pixelapse support it as well?

michaelmior11y ago

Is the icon supposed to have a psb extension? It looks like a typo.

shravan11y ago

Nop, it's a reference to Photoshop's Large Document Format. [1]

[1]: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/file-formats.html#lar...

michaelmior11y ago

Cool. It's been a while since I've used Photoshop on a regular basis, so I'm out of the loop. It just seemed odd given that psd is used directly underneath the icon.

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photoGrant11y ago

It's for files over 2GB. So referencing 500mb files confused me a bit, too.

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anonova11y ago

The landing page loads a whopping 6 MB of assets, the culprits particularly being two images at 3.2 and 1.8 MB. It was definitely not a fun experience on my lowly mobile network connection.

jrockway11y ago

Products can be beautiful and delightful, but I'm not sure it's meaningful when you call your own product beautiful and delightful.

solipsism11y ago

Meaningful, maybe not. Having a desirable marketing effect? Probably.

avemg11y ago

I don't know about that. It's certainly becoming a trite way to describe your product.

sanderjd11y ago

Agreed. Even if "beautiful" is a foundation of a company's strategy, I like it when they show me what I can do, and let me notice how beautiful they've made it.

moron4hire11y ago

Also agreed. It's a bit presumptuous to declare that your product possesses such subjective qualities.

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whiddershins11y ago

This sounds incredible, obviously the details are everything. Would be nice to see a comparison to other solutions, and an explanation of how infinite storage is possible/economical.

shravan11y ago

Hey, one of the founders of Pixelapse here. For context, our target demographic is graphic designers.

solipsism11y ago

What products would you say are comparable to yours? Perforce comes to mind, though that's more of a "check out, check in" model, where this appears to be more of a dropbox model?

I'm not understanding how a version is identified, though. Is a version stored on the server every time the file is saved?

I don't see anything about locking. How do you prevent two people from working on the same unmergeable file at the same time?

Speaking of merging, there is no mention of merging of text files. Is that not supported?

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snowpalmer11y ago

*Sketch files are actually folders with data, previews, etc. The act of opening the file actually modifies things like the thumbnail.

lominmingOP11y ago

erenemre11y ago

"Sketch's file format has changed; documents are now truly single files and can be safely emailed or shared via Dropbox and other services without having to zip them up first"

http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/support/updates/

RankingMember11y ago

"Hand-crafted in California". Is this Silicon Valley fetishism really still going on? It's like the "made on a Mac" of the '10s.

tankenmate11y ago

Now that Adobe will be supporting ChromeOS; will Pixelapse support it as well?

michaelmior11y ago

Is the icon supposed to have a psb extension? It looks like a typo.

shravan11y ago

Nop, it's a reference to Photoshop's Large Document Format. [1]

[1]: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/file-formats.html#lar...

michaelmior11y ago

Cool. It's been a while since I've used Photoshop on a regular basis, so I'm out of the loop. It just seemed odd given that psd is used directly underneath the icon.

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photoGrant11y ago

It's for files over 2GB. So referencing 500mb files confused me a bit, too.

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