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Posted by kualto 7/1/2025

Figma files for proposed IPO(www.figma.com)
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579878/000162828025...
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colesantiago 7/1/2025|
So now that Figma will be owned by Wall Street, it will only get considerably worse from here. It is now time consider and find and fund open source alternatives.

I know of excalidraw and perhaps penpot are there anymore?

cluckindan 7/1/2025||
I agree. If they’re so profitable already, why take the company public at all?
CSMastermind 7/1/2025|||
Because there are likely many employees and investors who want to cash out.

Going public makes their shares liquid. It's (probably) not reasonable for the company to repurchase that equity or to pay employees pure cash comp.

j7ake 7/3/2025||
Sounds like asking for the public to buy them out .
bdangubic 7/1/2025|||
to be a lot more profitable
cluckindan 7/1/2025||
And how would that happen? They already have the product, which can be sold in huge numbers without really needing to scale operations. Are you suggesting they need cash to rewrite or improve the product?
atombender 7/1/2025||
At my company we use Miro a ton. It doesn't have the design tools, just the white boarding and diagramming, so its Figma counterpart is FigJam. But the realtime collaboration features are just as good, and sometimes better. They have a decent desktop Electron app that wraps it, too.
Kye 7/1/2025||
What Figma did in this era of anticompetitive buyouts is admirable but my mind will always think figma balls even after they IPO freely.

Anyway, congratulations to everyone at Figma and good luck.

methods21 7/7/2025||
Lets see how far from the $20billion offer they IPO at.
Brajeshwar 7/2/2025||
I read that as though new companies filing IPO should use files created with Figma.
Manik_agg 7/2/2025||
Figma has come a long way, from a blocked Adobe acquisition to now filing for an IPO.
StableAlkyne 7/1/2025||
Going public is usually terrible news for users.

That said, today it's an incredibly good design tool - worth checking out before shareholders start the enshittification process. Congrats to the devs / founders for making it all the way to an IPO!

ElevenLathe 7/1/2025||
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ethan_smith 7/1/2025||
Beyond Penpot and Excalidraw, check out Sketch (Mac-only but mature), Lunacy (offline-capable), and Plasmic (code-focused) - all with different trade-offs but less pressure to monetize aggressively.
Zealotux 7/1/2025||
Figma's enshittification started back when there were talks of Adobe taking over, it's already bloated beyond reason.
insane_dreamer 7/1/2025|||
Their new "AI" feature is a bolted-on POS.

But Figma itself is excellent at what it does.

dawnerd 7/2/2025|||
I find it kind of ridiculous that I need dev mode to get some values that they expose outside of dev mode but in a less dev friendly way. I know there's more to it, but come on...
Alex_L_Wood 7/2/2025|
Maybe this will finally cause designers to ditch Figma. It's a fantastic tool for designers, but it's complete shit for developers.
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