He (Ivan Kuckir) has been building this online photo editor for 7 years now, and it’s paying off. Last year (2020), he broke the line of $500,000 ARR, and it’s still growing.
https://www.lunadio.com/blog/the-story-of-a-unicorn-solo-fou...
Re:Photoshop’s journey to the web
by arthur_sav on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:50AM
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If i remember correctly, the whole app runs in the browser without a backend which is pretty amazing.
And no WASM either last time I checked. The author also has multiple open source imaging JS libraries on his GitHub that he created for PhotoPea
My name is Ivan Kutskir and I am the only developer of Photopea. I am 27 years old graduate of the Charles University in Prague. I live in Prague, Czech Republic, but I was born in Ukraine. https://blog.photopea.com/creating-photopea.html
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Reddit AMA (3yrs ago) and HN discussion on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18397380