The Studio tool appears to be a showcase for their paid graphic library (https://polotno.dev/). As a designer/dev the library is definitely addressing a hole in the market where libraries like fabric.js and konva aren’t serving: customer support (esp enterprise) and feature requests.

Coming from Teespring and recently at Figma, I’ve seen both sides of this problem: home rolling a teeshirt maker in canvas and also trying to use parts of an editor at Figma for marketing (wasn’t decoupled enough). I’m excited to see where this team takes this and grows.

I am creator of Polotno.

Thanks for the kind words.

From my view, the hole in the market is not customer support and features requests. Fabric.js and konva (that is used inside Polotno) are "low-level" libraries. They are providing a DOM-like API to the canvas. That is it. In order to make a full canvas editor, you have to write a lot of code on top of fabric, or konva, or any other library, or SVG.

https://polotno.dev/ - is designed to solve a very narrow business need. So you can build a full editor with much less code (almost no code at all). It may be less flexible, but it is the tradeoff for solving one problem in a good way.

Yep that's correct. Building a product is usually the easy(and enjoyable) part. Building the business logic is a slow, unenjoyable trudge.

On https://polotno.dev/#price

> Fof non-commercial or development usage only

This is an excellent start, but the big selling point (at least for me) of tools like Canva is the myriad of templates to start from.

Exactly, also the templates and stock photos/media are all licensed which makes it much easier for business use

Looks really good!!!

Consider (down the dev road) export options that optimize the image, like https://tinypng.com/ (I have no affiliation w/ them, other than as a user).

Potentially a bug that I found. When I add an icon and click "Flip Horizontally" or "Flip Vertically", the icon appears very blurry and a little pixilated.

Using Firefox on Manjaro.

Right, that is a bug. Thanks for the feedback.

Very nice. However, it took a moment to realise that you cannot drag objects to the canvas but have to click on them first. Then you can move them around.

It is great, well done.

error -> pdf export doesn't work as intented when canvas size changed. scales page elements to fit predefined (I think) page size.

That is a bad bug. Thanks for the feedback!

Really clean and good! Bookmarking the website now.

The title seems a little disingenuous, as Canva does not have ads or require signup.

so many features missing to be considered Canva-like, hopefully it can evolve into fitting that description but now I think it is a stretch and a little misleading to make the comparison.

What is meant by "canvas"? Obviously not the HTML Canvas element, right?

Not "canvas" but "Canva", referring to https://www.canva.com/

Oh, my eyes are getting bad obviously.

After playing around with it for a bit, I really love it!

One thing I found myself needing: Is there a way to manage the z-index of your layers? (e.g. send layer to back, etc)

Yes. There is cross-lines button when you select an object to change its z-index. Looks like it is not clear and I need a different icon/label.

Oh I see! Thank you. I wasn't expecting that to trigger a 'drop-down' for some reason.

Even on a mobile device it's neat Well done

Actually works decently on mobile (iOS chrome)

Really nice! It looks like there is a typo in the title of the site: "fee" instead of "free"

Nice.. but what makes Canva valuable isn't the tool itself.. It's the templates. Add some templates

Yes canva is a beast

Looking good so far! Excited to implement it in my next project

Well done, mate! Truly a wonderful job.

Why would I ever use this over figma?

looks good! I take it you're the developer of konva as well?

Yes.

Looks neat