10 years, 8 months and 12 days

https://www.prototypo.io/blog/news/10-years-8-months-and-12-days/

by app4soft • 6 years ago

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app4soft• 6 years ago

Prototypo font editor app source code actually hosted on GitHub.[0]

[0] https://github.com/byte-foundry/prototypo

howtowin• 6 years ago

What a tough decision to make after nearly 11 years. My heart goes out to all the individuals who had their hearts in this company and product.

gnabgib• 6 years ago

The post is from March, and the product ended in June (see the awkward tense flash across the top).. this seems.. untimely

prototypo2• 6 years ago

Actually we shut down the product in June because we used graphcool and graphcool shut down in... June : )

xyst• 6 years ago

I applaud this person's effort and persistence. Many people have ideas, but many of those same people do not have the cajones to get it from paper to a product.

robocat• 6 years ago

Here’s an online demo of the technology: https://spectral.prototypo.io/

It seems like such a fantastic market, and a real shame they couldn’t convert it into a profitable product.

For decades I have wanted to do a similar startup, but I’ve always judged the technical challenges of what I wished to achieve to be beyond my skill (edit: more of a visual pipeline of stroke and adornment transforms with parameters).

xwdv• 6 years ago

It’s not a shame if there’s no market, it would only be a shame if there was a huge market and they failed to capture the opportunity.

dheera• 6 years ago

It's a shame the market mostly allows for building mediocre products that millions of people want, instead of great products that thousands of people want.

germinalphrase• 6 years ago

Plenty of beautiful things have no market.

lqet• 6 years ago

It seems like such a fantastic market

Does it? Maybe I am misunderstanding the product, but I am really struggling to think of potential customers. To me, it seems that people who actually design their own fonts will be doing this on a much more professional level than just adjusting a few sliders. On the other hand, people who know so little about font design that such a technology would help them will get their desired results faster if they just use a stock font from Google Fonts. After all, they offer sliders, too, but the result is always a polished font which has been worked on by an actual designer. Also, it's free.

dmurray• 6 years ago

Agreed, it's a fantastic idea, and great execution, but sadly not a fantastic market.

prototypo2• 6 years ago

Totally agree! This is exactly what I tell people who ask me why we have failed (I’m the author of this post : )

Yannick.

cj• 6 years ago

Congratulations on what you built, and good luck with what comes next!

10 years, 8 months and 12 days

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