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I made a free alternative to Photoshop, that is used by 7 million
people. Ask me Anything!

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I made a free alternative to Photoshop, that is used by 7 million
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Most of my profit comes from ads. I make around 5 cents for every
hour someone spends in Photopea (on average). In 2019, people spent 5
million hours working in Photopea, so I made around $250,000. I hope
it could be 2x to 4x more this year :)

Photopea runs completely in your computer (after Photopea.com loads,
you can disconnect from the internet and use it offline). I use only
a file hosting, for which I pay around 50 USD a year.

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8 months ago

How is that possible to only pay 50 USD/year when you get ~7 million
people in a month and your site is 1.8mb. That's around 12tb/month. I
don't know of any host willing to do 12tb of data for $50/12

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8 months ago

Apparently I need to be making web-based tools.... Dibs on the the
freeware browser version of premiere/after effects!!

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    Photopea runs completely in your computer (after Photopea.com
    loads, you can disconnect from the internet and use it offline).

That's the question I wanted answered, but wasn't sure how to word it
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8 months ago

I'm glad you have a subscription option. As a policy I don't turn my
adblocker off, but I'll totally subscribe as your rates are quite
reasonable!

If you're around and don't mind answering, how many subscriptions do
you have?

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8 months ago

How much do you think you're losing out because of adblockers?

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8 months ago

That is so cool man! I wish I had the brain power create something
like that.

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8 months ago

Which file hosting service are you using?

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    Photopea runs completely in your computer (after Photopea.com
    loads, you can disconnect from the internet and use it offline).

I may be mistaken but I believe this means you can literally just
save the webpage and use it anytime from your desktop. That could
potentially hurt your ad revenue.

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8 months ago

Holy shit, that is absolutely incredible. And may I say well deserved
too, after solving 2300+ issues as a one man team.

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Was that 250,000 USD? It seems slightly high by my understanding?

Either way, very good work. As someone who knows a lot of the math
behind the stuff you are doing, it is great to see more alternatives
out there.

Also remove.bg is quite poor quality, and I suspect your tool will
provide much better results with a few seconds of time investment.
(The example picture on remove.bg shows at least 2 errors that are
unacceptable quality to me, things that a graphics intern would
handle easily).

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8 months ago

Is it considered a PWA?

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8 months ago

Holy shit that's good money. Congrats man, I recommend your software
to everyone

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