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Re:BioRender – Professional Science Figures by tathougies on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:57AM (#20002846)
Presumably they keep it updated. Also the 48 hour turnaround time for new icons seems like a valuavle service, not available with an installable
Re:BioRender – Professional Science Figures by digitalis_837 on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:12PM (#20004470)
honestly, life-saver. I requested a few icons and asked for it to be done last minute... they actually pulled through! even consulted me about the accuracy. would recommend
Re:BioRender – Professional Science Figures by apathy on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:51PM (#20011992)
This. I sent them some vector art that was already better than 99.9% of figures in quality review articles, and they made it better.

Nobody I know that has signed up for this service has regretted it for one second. (Contrast with Dropbox for Business, which is a horrifying overengineered pile of shit that actively subtracts value)

I get the impression that the engineer types are missing the point. Maybe it’s possible to produce a better product more cheaply and satisfy a greater segment of this market. But others have been trying that for 50 years and somehow biorender is the rising star in their market.

Perhaps, and I’m just spitballing here, perhaps the haters might benefit from reviewing a Hacker News Classic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

It’s not about the difficulty, or the effort, or the novelty of a service. It’s the value to a market that is willing to pay and underserved. Over and over again...