[mattkevan]

Or they could have focused on building a sustainable company that made a profit from the start and didn’t use VC money to essentially give the product away for free.

I was really unhappy about switching my design team to Figma because their only ways forward are to either IPO or get purchased, with all the pain they involve. Or worse, if they actually have to start making a profit, then prices will be raised immensely and features will be diminished.

None of those things lead to a stable platform to base on potentially years of work.

[etblg]

Out of curiosity, what were the alternatives to Figma you were looking at and were more in favour of?

[mattkevan]

Sketch doesn’t have all the features of Figma, but it is backed by a sustainable company who haven’t taken on vast amounts of funding.

We really needed the real-time collaboration features, which Sketch didn’t have at that time so we went with Figma. I was concerned that it only had a couple of years left in its current state, which sadly seems to be true.

Penpot is an interesting upcoming alternative, though it’s not ready for prime-time yet.