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.

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

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

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

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

Affinity is a great Adobe alternative.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Adobe are awful. I hope they go soon and bring their shitty Reader in the same way Flash went.