[cpks]

It's an interesting project, but I'd never rely on it without some idea of what the goals are. Why isn't it open source? What's the business model? Will you charge me $1000 in two years, once I become dependent? Will it stay online in two years? Etc.

There's a certain transparency lacking.

It's fine to say "It's free for now, and will be $0.50 per month once mature" or "We plan to make it free for open images and charge $5,000 for proprietary use" or whatever. Or "We'll support it by doing machine learning to find naked images and pay for it by hosing a porn web site." Or "I'm developing this until I can sell it to the highest bidder."

But there needs to be some answer as to what the goal or business model is.

[striking]

If you visit https://www.photopea.com/ and click the red "Account" button in the menu bar, you can see some stuff about that.

Currently when a user or team "goes premium", ads are removed. That's it.

There's also a "Distributor Account", which allows you to use Photopea in your own site in an iframe without Photopea branding or ads: https://www.photopea.com/api/accounts#teams

[ksk]

It seems like its a cool student project, that's evolving into a potential product.

I would have loved to use this to edit my photos, but unfortunately Adobe's got me by the nuts. I am too heavily invested in Lightroom & Photoshop.

Good luck to you, Ivan!

[skinnyasianboi]

"..make designers less dependent on their software (if it suddenly stops working, you should still have a chance to use your files somehow)..."(source=link) Makes your "..Will you charge me $1000 in two years, once I become dependent?.." invalid

[reificator]

I don't think it does. Words are words.

[skinnyasianboi]

doesn't it? I don't understand edit: ignore the 1000$ part. what i mean is that one focus of the product is to make designer less dependent because there won't be a new file format for example. but cpks was talking about the danger of becoming dependent. thats what i didn't get