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by jaxomlotus 1043 days ago
This is wonderful!

I co-founded a suite of flash design apps called Aviary back in 2007, so know how hard it is to pull of what you've done here.

I'm really blown away by what you created here. Super intuitive, very powerful, and solves a real product need (I literally was talking with my designer earlier about how hard using After Effects was).

Great work!

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I remember those!

I don't remember if I ever got to use them, but I remember reading about them and being super impressed.

Obviously didn't catch on the way Figma did, but was the first salvo in that direction that made people go "maybe we're not stuck with Adobe."

Although, sadly, figma is about to be owned by adobe.
I never bothered learning Figma.

I know Adobe well, and I don't use design tools often enough to have value in using Figma.

That said, I hope they don't fuck it up like they did Flash.

Thank you so much! If you or your designer end up using it for a project, we'd love to hear your feedback. We're reachable via hello@lottielab.com or on Discord: https://discord.gg/3r9GcBUAZa.
Oh my god I remember Aviary!

I was truly mind blown by how amazing those tools were in the browser. And so many different applications too!

Really impressive product! I can’t imagine it was easy trying to find a profitable market with the competition you had. But it was an infinitely useful suite and a technical marvel.