Congratulations to everyone who made this company go. That said, this company's growth seems threatened by AI adoption rather than boosted by it.
reactordev · 1m ago
They’re adopting AI so that designers within figma can create. I don’t know whether this is good or bad (I don’t design) but if the tool everyone uses to mock things up gains coding abilities, we’re cooked.
You’ll be able to go from figma to production in weeks.
raincole · 28m ago
So what's the alternative? Is open source solutions catching up?
bryanhogan · 11m ago
There's Penpot[1], but it's not as good as Figma, currently.
The thinking is that an IPO will encourage them to reduce the app’s functionality except for enterprise tiers.
The technical term is enshittification.
scarface_74 · 19m ago
Charging more money for features is not enshittificaton. Making the product worse like adding advertisements would be.
A full professional seat is $16 for individual, $55 for organizations and $90 for enterprises. Either price is a nothing burger for a professional tool.
rhet0rica · 16m ago
There are plenty of textbook cases of enshittification that are covered by price increases—just look at Adobe and AutoCAD selling credits that are used just to launch the program. As long as it fits with the "claw back value from your customers and partners to feed your investors" pattern, ∂shit > 0.
scarface_74 · 8m ago
I looked up adobe credits. Aren’t they just used to buy licensed assets like pictures and videos. But not for the core app?
mschuster91 · 6m ago
I 'member Adobe's Creative Suite costing hundreds of dollars. Photoshop alone clocked in at 699$, the full CS6 was 2599$ [1]. Either you were a professional and paid dearly every odd year or you were a student and used a cracked/keygen'd CS6.
Today? The full CC license is 70$ a month for individuals (30$ for students) and 100$ a month for businesses. Despite inflation, assuming a two year upgrade cycle you still get the same price for the full Adobe package when comparing CS vs CC.
One may complain a lot about Adobe (RIP Flash, and anything Gen AI can go to hell for all I care), but "enshittification" is one thing that can't reasonably be thrown at them.
As for Adobe Credits, AFAIK that's credits for fonts and assets - and again, I vastly prefer dealing with one storefront (Adobe) than having to buy and license individual font files or stock photos.
Hard to imagine that interaction not being an immediate disqualifier for every single tech employee.
mschuster91 · 3m ago
The name of the company certainly does raise eyebrows. And from what I 'member from back in ye day, the Musk controversy actually helped them to raise users in the end because everyone and their dog was talking about Musk and him assuming getting hit by a "ligma" joke. That thing was all over the Internet.
You’ll be able to go from figma to production in weeks.
[1]: https://penpot.app/
The technical term is enshittification.
A full professional seat is $16 for individual, $55 for organizations and $90 for enterprises. Either price is a nothing burger for a professional tool.
Today? The full CC license is 70$ a month for individuals (30$ for students) and 100$ a month for businesses. Despite inflation, assuming a two year upgrade cycle you still get the same price for the full Adobe package when comparing CS vs CC.
One may complain a lot about Adobe (RIP Flash, and anything Gen AI can go to hell for all I care), but "enshittification" is one thing that can't reasonably be thrown at them.
As for Adobe Credits, AFAIK that's credits for fonts and assets - and again, I vastly prefer dealing with one storefront (Adobe) than having to buy and license individual font files or stock photos.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/23/2968192/adobe-cs6-pricing...
Congrats to Figma on building well the first time though! The deliberately craft thought out web architecture made a difference!
Let's just hope that by now, a certain infamous billionaire actually knows what the company does [1].
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/11luddv/fig...