Hi, my name is Ivan Kutskir, I am a 35 y.o. programmer from Czechia (but I was born in Ukraine). I made Photopea, an advanced photo editor which works in a web browser (locally, without any uploads / downloads). In 2025, it was used 350 million times, and users opened 1 billion files in it.
I started to work on Photopea in 2012 (while being a student) as a hobby, until 2016, when I graduated and started developing it full-time. Since then, it has been the only job that I ever had. It has been 14 years since I started :)
I did an AMA here four years ago, and I wanted to share with you what happened since then :)
- I was invited as a speaker to various conferences, where I talked about Photopea
- I added new features to Photopea, like this, this, this or this
- I made Vectorpea, which should be a more vector-oriented editor
- I made Jampea, which I want to be the simplest tool for anyone to start making music
- I became a father to a beautiful son, who is six months old now :)
What makes me angry:
- Because of a bug Chrome, you can edit only images of up to 500 million pixels (per layer) when Photopea runs in Chrome / Edge / Opera / ...
- ADS! The technology behind ad systems is very old an inefficient, slowing down your computer. It ruins the experience of 15% to 30% of my users (mainly those with old computers). I would like get rid of them somehow, but they make 90% of my income now.
Ask me Anything! :) Proof: I put a link to my AMA here!
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