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I'm highly sceptical of this shipping in a state that can compete with Adobe at the end of it all. The branding itself is asking for trouble, which is just plain stupid if you are serious about long-term and sustainable development of the whole suite, and 180k is not enough to even put together a competent alternative to Illustrator, not to mention Photoshop and InDesign.

And before people start claiming that you can fund this by outsourcing to Eastern Europe / India etc, please bear in mind that you usually get what you pay for. A competent developer with enough experience to actually make this happen won't come cheap, and opportunistic juniors with big ambitions won't deliver.

I wish this project all the luck it can get, but I'm personally banking on Graphite and Inkscape from the FOSS world and Affinity suite from (as of yet) less corpo commercial offerings.

Took me 3 reads to notice that ABODE is not ADOBE

Maybe I'm a little dyslexic after 8 hours of work.

tfw dyslexic people trying to read this post

Affinity is available today. The products are great, the pricing is reasonable, and it is not subscription based.

If I depend on yours software to work, I'm not willing to pay a subscription. Period.

as a dyslexic person I had to read that 6 times to see the difference.

I think he'll just deliver some reskinned FOSS projects at best.

Its one thing to make a color chart, its a whole other thing to make all of Adobe.

This article confirmed I’m still dyslexic

One of my many gripes with Inkscape is the steep learning curve. If this new application fixes it, I'd see myself using it as long as I don't have to rent the software.

Till then, Inkscape all the way.

He's right, Adobe's grip on users is bullshit. I just doubt that he's gonna be the guy to fix it.

how about working with already existing adobe alternatives and help get them better

Affinity is a great Adobe alternative.

Kinda off topic but the title of this post made me think; Do you think Adobe HQ is referred to as the “Abode”?

Oh, it's that guy. The "Semple vs Kapoor" stuff was funny.

Before I recognized who was doing "abode" I was going to say that name was just asking for trouble, but yeah, he knew what he was doing.

Color me skeptical

The Foss community already tried for years. And the gap is widening even more thanks to AI.

I kind of wish he'd just raise money for or contribute to existing FOSS Adobe alternatives that are still feature-lacking.

Does anyone else think this will go to court over copyright infringement? Purposefully similar name and same industry.

It's not FOSS but I've been using Photopea since I ditched Adobe years ago, it's a decent alternative.

Poor timing in light of the recent Supreme Court Ruling. Stupid name, stupid decision, all of that Kickstarter money essentially gone.

Oh look, i dropped my 🏴‍☠️

Photoshop has been around for over 3 decades. It's original patents must have expired by now.

I am also curious how software like Photopea exists. It is a direct Photoshop rip off. But it only runs in your browser. For small jobs it is fantastic since the layout is exactly the same as Photoshop, unfortunately for larger projects it doesn't have the speed that a natively installed app would have. Still check out the website if you need Photoshop functionality without paying Adobe's prices.

But how has Adobe not shut that site down since it mimics Photoshop so closely?

I wish Abode well and would love to see what they come up with.

Great idea, but the money they have is barely enough to make a dent in the development scope they are aiming for.

Unfortunately I think the name is kinda poor. I get why they named it but the SEO is always going to be bad against Adobe.

How can you even take them serious when their name is literally "Abode"?