“Because we are open source, it means you can hack in, self host, and tweak, and expand,” he said.
Adobe’s Figma deal was the best marketing Penpot ever got. Signups jumped 5,600 percent and on-premise installs 400 percent. Penpot is free and has no real revenue model yet. Now it has $8 million in venture money, and investors will want that model soon.