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Hi guys, I am Ivan, the creator of Photopea :) I made almost $1 million in the last 12 months, 90% from ads. The rest is from Premium (users paying to hide ads
by IvanK_net 6y ago
Hi guys, I am Ivan, the creator of Photopea :)
I made almost $1 million in the last 12 months, 90% from ads. The rest is from Premium (users paying to hide ads) and licensing a self-hosted version of Photopea.
When you start your own project, you never know, if it will ever make $250k a year. But if you get hired, you can be quite sure, that you will never make more than $250k a year.
Follow Photopea to see my progress :) http://facebook.com/photopea http://facebook.com/photopea , http://twitter.com/photopeacom http://twitter.com/photopeacom
- Winterflow3r 6y agoCongratulations! I think your story is very inspiring and I wish you and Photopea lots more success in the future!
- nakodari 6y agoCongrats Ivan! Great looking app. Quick question - is this $1 million revenue from Ads alone or does it include subscription as well?
- cinntaile 6y agoHis comment, that you're replying to, literally says 90% of the $1 million usd revenue comes from ads. The rest, so 10% of $1 million, comes from subscriptions and so on.
- nakodari 6y agoIt looks like he edited his comment to add this info. His original comment didn’t include info. Thanks!
- secondcoming 6y agodeleted
- techrat 6y ago>Edit: I just checked our systems and you're mainly XXXXX. We've given you XXXXX since the start of the year (before the ad network takes their cut) Are you even allowed to release customer/client info like that?
- secondcoming 6y agoMaybe not! Can you edit my comment? I've removed mine. He's not a client though. Edit: thank you!
- codegrappler 6y agoYou should probably delete the quoted portion of your comment as well.
- bijant 6y agoIt‘s more than just a bit unprofessional to disclose the earnings of a client on a public forum. (I take that back if he has given You explicit permission)
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- dx034 6y agoCongrats! It's an amazing story that shows that a sole developer can create a product on par with paid products from big companies. I think many people assume you always need a big team to create something great, whereas often a sole developer with dedication and talent is enough to challenge even large products.
- bennysomething 6y agoPlus you now don't have to work full time on it, presumably. Financial freedom Vs corporate job. I know which one I'd prefer. Also congratulations on your outstanding success
- techrat 6y agoEver considered having a completely offline version for those who don't want to run it with their browser?
- IvanK_net 6y agoIt would take me some effort to make and maintain a separate version. Users would report bugs which have been fixed months ago, because they did not update it, etc. I think the importance of "offline apps" is overrated today. Personally, I spend less than 10 hours a year on a device without internet, and I think this number is decreasing each year, for everyone. People use Google Maps and Wikipedia without having them on their hard drives. On the other hand, it is nice, that you can simply close a website and there is no track of that service in your computer.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoMaybe a Progressive Web App could work? If I remember correctly, it requires basically just adding a cache manifest. Initial setup can be finnicky (test it on a separate subdomain!) but it shouldn't require much more than a correctly configured cache manifest and a few lines of code to handle updates.
- 411111111111111 6y agothere are even some frameworks that make it extra easy, like angular for example (just `ng add @angular/pwa` and you're basically done). while it is pretty easy and doable in maybe 1-2 days, depending on how fluent you are with these kinds of things... it's not entirely in the authors best interest. if people start using it `offline`, he wont be able to get advertisement revenue after all ;)
- bckr 6y agoHe says in one of his Reddit comments that he does not (and probably will not) use frameworks. It's pure HTML/CSS/JS.
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- bardonadam 6y agoCongrats Ivan! Well deserved! I've always enjoyed your AMA's on Reddit.
- grumpyautist 6y agoWhat makes your product unique or better than GIMP?
- shoto_io 6y agoHave you looked at it? For me at least, GIMP never worked really stable on my Mac.
- Black101 6y agoThe Filter menu looks a bit funky to me (edit: in Firefox 87): https://i.imgur.com/S70o2eU.png https://i.imgur.com/S70o2eU.png ... probably one of my addons messing with it but I don't have that problem in GIMP.
- himujjal 6y agobetter than a software that doesnt do what users want it to do? a lot of things. Why dont you go and try Photopea. It has achieved so much what Gimp couldnt. Yes, its made for business and its closed source. But considering the number of devs and the number of years spent, Photopea is an excellent replacement for photoshop. I have personally used it for most of the small image editing I needed.
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- nickjj 6y agoHey, I've used Photopea a bunch of times to help create thumbnail images, nice app! If you ever wanted to jump on a podcast to talk about how you built and deploy it let me know. I'd love to have you on the https://runninginproduction.com/ https://runninginproduction.com/ podcast. You can click the "become a guest" button to get started if you were interested. (Note: if anyone else wants to be a guest you can submit a request too, I just finished a huge stretch of 8 months worth of backlog episodes so I have openings again)
- jfrunyon 6y agoIf I'm doing my math right, $900,000 from ads @ few dollars CPM = few hundred million impressions - not bad!
- system16 6y agoI'm not a designer, but for my personal dev projects I always end up needing to do some light image editing. Not nearly enough to justify a Photoshop licence, and I've tried other apps like Pixen and GIMP but have always been met with frustration. Photopea is one of my favourite tools on the web. Thank you for making such awesome software. As for the comment about working at a FAANG I'm baffled. In what world would working at a FAANG, dealing with company politics, reporting to managers, having employment reviews, etc. be more desirable than the freedom and satisfaction of launching your own project and being able to very comfortably sustain yourself?
- ramraj07 6y agoIn the world where for every PhotoPea there’s a hundred other failed ideas that never materialised; to consider the idea of “just create your own product” being simpler than dealing with office politics sounds laughable either because you are not aware of how difficult the former proposition is to a regular engineer. If it comes so naturally to you, it still sounds immature to not realise how rare such an ability is.
- cmmeur01 6y agoThey are talking about using PhotoPea as leverage to work at a FAANG. This doesn't apply, his project is already successful.
- RHSeeger 6y agoYou seem to be basing that question on the assumption that both options offer the same pay (or at least that both off "enough" pay). Working on your own project is a tremendous risk; and for every success story like this, my assumption is that there's at least dozens who fail or don't even make enough to pay their bills. Working on a successful independent software project is, for a lot of people, much more desirable than working at someone else's company; in much the same way owning a startup company would be. But the key there is "successful", which is certainly not guaranteed.
- system16 6y ago
- smallnamespace 6y ago> But if you get hired, you can be quite sure, that you will never make more than $250k a year. From https://www.levels.fyi/ https://www.levels.fyi/ Google (total comp): Level 4 - $266k Level 5 (Senior) - $353k Level 6 (Staff) - $484k ... and similarly at other FAANG companies. If you're good/lucky, you can make it to Senior in 3-4 years as a new engineer. It used to be that Level 5 -> 6 was a difficult jump, but nowadays there are many Level 6s and 7s. At Level 7, even your base salary >$250k a year.
- jjeaff 6y agoI would be curious to know how many engineers are at senior level or higher at google.
- seapunk 6y agoHi Ivan, Photopea is awesome. I'm glad to know that it's really well profitable. I was wondering, do you have other apps you want to build and you stay focused on Photopea?