Lunacy - Cross-platform app, faster than Figma, smarter than Sketch

@puppycodes is it weird, the name?

@visualpharm if you read the definition of lunacy: "person who is seen as mentally ill, dangerous, foolish, or crazy". It's a problematic word in itself trivializing and perpetuating tropes about mental illness.

@konrad_bujak Let me be blunt. We want to win our market share, yes. But no, we don't want to take Figma down. We love Figma ourselves; it's a great product that solved the same problems we struggled with back in Sketch's glory days. The collaboration was the problem; handling designs to developers was... hard. Designers worked on Macs, and developers worked on Windows. And that's how it all started: one of our devs made a .sketch files viewer for Windows. Day after day, we worked on Lunacy, and it became a great tool. And we've got a lot of feedback from users who needed something else than Figma. Not because Figma is bad or something, again, it's a great tool. But there are lots of people out there who have computers that can hardly work with Figma files or who need to work offline. And there are professional designers who do a lot of work, and every second counts. They can work fast, and they're in pain each time they have to wait until the file opens or the pictures become visible. TL;DR We're covering the gaps here to help people. If you want to work fast and/or offline or you can't afford a fancy laptop and fast internet, Lunacy is your tool.

@konrad_bujak As for the 100 ppl, I can think about a few use-cases. First, teachers at schools, unis, online courses, etc. Many students may need to see the same file and work with it. And user management to meet small limits is not an exciting thing, you know. Second, think of a big team working on a bunch of products. A few years ago, such big teams switched to Figma just because they hated the idea of paying for other software per seat: for all the designers, developers, copyrighters, and managers who contributed to the product or needed access to the design files. And there are some similar teams out there who need the same, but they keep paying for multiple seats of other tools because they can't go with anything browser-based for security reasons.

@mystpi All chances I think. ARM for Windows is available and others will come soon.

@tibring Good to hear!