Comment by kybernetikos

I listened to an interview with Ivan Kuckir who created Photopea with an old laptop and a cheap webhost. It runs in the users browsers, so his costs are extremely low. The interviewer asked him about taking VC money, but he didn't seem keen. It's a runaway financial success as it is, and there isn't really anything that taking a bunch of money would allow him to do that he can't already do.