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Comment by echelon

6 days ago

It won't just be figma. The market is already filling up with lots of players in this space.

There may be no moats. Just distribution winners.

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reactordev  6 days ago

Never underestimate the power of market share. Adobe has had a bunch of competitors but still dominates design.

  • echelon  6 days ago

    Speaking of Adobe!

    Adobe is going to get absolutely trounced by GenAI. They've got so many competitors coming at them from all angles.

    Also, innovation capital (engineers at startups) experience outsized rewards at startups when disruption happens. The better engineers will flock to more nimble outfits and reap the benefits.

    Adobe is a dinosaur.

    • wwweston  5 days ago

      Adobe has been thinking about GenAI longer than you probably have (probably added because this is HN and you never know).

      I got to talk to a product engineer about some of their work back in 2021, and he was describing generative (and even generative-editive) capabilities they had in hand that most associate with the last two years, they were just figuring out how to productize them, many of which they have.

      I have my own complaints about Adobe products and choices but they are far from out of the game, and they’re probably going to be fine, especially if a lot of people make the mistake of thinking of them primarily as a dinosaur Figma competitor.

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    • reactordev  6 days ago

      Adobe has SOOO much money though that it will take a giant force to unseat them. Not to say we shouldn’t keep trying (I love Krita) but they have made sure they’re on the top of the totem pole. Complete with spyware on every designers computer.

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  • tonyhart7  6 days ago

    adobe moat is complex desktop software

    Figma is a whole lot easier to replace actually you can now actually with a self host OSS that came up with and bring your own api key from antrophic or open ai

    • reactordev  6 days ago

      While technically, Figma is just a web app tool. Replacing it would be hard. It has a ton of features, it’s well designed, it exports working wireframe mock ups you can use to demonstrate functionality. It’s good software.

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voidfunc  6 days ago

> It won't just be figma. The market is already filling up with lots of players in this space.

MongoDB wants a word.. another "this will never amount to anything" HN special.