Sync Done Beautifully
Dev tools
file sync and version control for designers
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Sync Done Beautifully
You are right that Sketch files (up till version 3.0.4) are actually file packages, but we support packages…
pixelapse.com#design file sync#version control#graphic design#collaboration#psd sync
How HN took it
0 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Performance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Sounds incredible and interesting for design teams
From 1 comment
This sounds incredible, obviously the details are everything. Would be nice to see a comparison to other solutions, and an explanation of how infinite storage is…
whiddershins on HN
Objections
Landing page loads 6 MB of assets, slow on mobile
From 1 comment
The landing page loads a whopping 6 MB of assets, the culprits particularly being two images at 3.2 and 1.8 MB. It was definitely not a fun experience on my lowly mobile network…
anonova on HN
Calling the product beautiful and delightful is presumptuous
From 3 comments
Products can be beautiful and delightful, but I'm not sure it's meaningful when you call your own product beautiful and delightful.
jrockway on HNAlso agreed. It's a bit presumptuous to declare that your product possesses such subjective qualities.
moron4hire on HNI don't know about that. It's certainly becoming a trite way to describe your product.
avemg on HN
No locking or merging of files, so simultaneous edits create conflicted copies
From 2 comments
What products would you say are comparable to yours? Perforce comes to mind, though that's more of a "check out, check in" model, where this appears to be more of a dropbox…
solipsism on HNIf two users simultaneously edit the same file, one of them "loses" and shows up as a Conflicted copy. From my perspective, that seems like a good feature to consider adding.…
solipsism on HN
Requests
Support for locking files
From 2 comments
What products would you say are comparable to yours? Perforce comes to mind, though that's more of a "check out, check in" model, where this appears to be more of a dropbox…
solipsism on HNIf two users simultaneously edit the same file, one of them "loses" and shows up as a Conflicted copy. From my perspective, that seems like a good feature to consider adding.…
solipsism on HN
Support for Sketch files
From 1 comment
How is Sketch file support? When we've tried to share files via Dropbox it's constantly stepping on each others toes just when someone tries to open it for view-only. Makes…
snowpalmer on HN
Support for ChromeOS
From 1 comment
Now that Adobe will be supporting ChromeOS; will Pixelapse support it as well?
tankenmate on HN
Questions
How versions are identified and stored
From 1 comment
What products would you say are comparable to yours? Perforce comes to mind, though that's more of a "check out, check in" model, where this appears to be more of a dropbox…
solipsism on HN
How file merging of text files is handled
From 1 comment
What products would you say are comparable to yours? Perforce comes to mind, though that's more of a "check out, check in" model, where this appears to be more of a dropbox…
solipsism on HN
How infinite storage is economical
From 1 comment
This sounds incredible, obviously the details are everything. Would be nice to see a comparison to other solutions, and an explanation of how infinite storage is…
whiddershins on HN
Alternatives named
Dropbox
From 2 comments
What products would you say are comparable to yours? Perforce comes to mind, though that's more of a "check out, check in" model, where this appears to be more of a dropbox…
solipsism on HNI'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…
shravan on HN
Perforce
From 2 comments
What products would you say are comparable to yours? Perforce comes to mind, though that's more of a "check out, check in" model, where this appears to be more of a dropbox…
solipsism on HNIf two users simultaneously edit the same file, one of them "loses" and shows up as a Conflicted copy. From my perspective, that seems like a good feature to consider adding.…
solipsism on HN
GitHub
From 1 comment
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,…
shravan on HN