Congratulations on the launch! I'm curious to understand, in your experience, what was the most challenging part of building a realtime voice AI app was? Naively, assumed that this would be a solved problem.
I'd say the model is most comparable to Dropbox in that it passively syncs your work in the background. The check-in, check-out approach works for developers but we found it to be too confusing for our target audience of designers. It's a bit of cognitive overhead to remember to constantly check-in, especially when using Photoshop, which crashes quite frequently.
Every save forms a new version online, but you can go back and retroactively mark certain versions as major milestones. Milestones are roughly equivalent to commits in Git.
Since we're primarily focused on graphic design formats, we don't attempt to do any merging of files since it's unclear that the end product would make much sense. We don't lock files either. If two users simultaneously edit the same file, one of them "loses" and shows up as a Conflicted copy that you can visually resolve in the Comparison view online.
Hey, one of the founders of Pixelapse here. For context, our target demographic is graphic designers.
We initially started out with tiered pricing based on storage. However, based on usage, we actually found that people rarely hit their storage caps. A better barometer for us is the number of people working together, which we approximate with projects. In that regard, our pricing plans are similar to Github's. Public projects are free and unlimited. Private projects are paid.
If you look at the Safari traffic light icons, the spacing above them is narrower than the spacing below. It's a bit hard to see immediately but it's highlighted with red lines in that section.
Very cool visualization. It appears as though this buffers events if you leave the page. So leaving the page and tabbing back to it results in a flurry of activity.
On the topic of reasonable alternative tools, Sketch[1] has started to gain a tremendous amount of traction within a short amount of time within the web design community.
This is a biased question, because the people who chose not to go to college are not likely to have a clear understanding of what the experience is like.
College for me personally had little to do with academics and much more to do with the people I met once there. When I was leaving high school, I had little idea that this would be the case.
I'm sad to see Kippt go. I've been an avid user for about a year now.
Can you comment on what led to this change? Inbound traffic looks like it's still pretty solid. Was it just that not enough people were converting to paid plans?
Somewhat tangential to this story, but we recently moved our team over from HipChat to Slack [1]. I initially thought that we'd miss the sheer number of integrations HipChat offers, but Slack seems to cover almost all of the ones we use regularly and some HipChat doesn't yet offer, like Asana.