Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI really wanted to like penpot, but when I tried a few months ago, simply navigating between pages (even on the example documents) was causing parts of the document to change in bizarre ways. I didn't want that level of risk with documents I actually cared about, so continued to use figma. I guess it's time to give it another shot. EDIT: still broken 8 months later :(
I interviewed Pablo, the founder of this project, for my podcast - he's a super interesting guy and I'm going to plug the link! https://flagsmith.com/podcast/pablo-muzquiz-penpot/
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1036
- Total comments
- 244
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-29 | Open source prototyping platform written in Clojure+ClojureScript | macco | 4 | 0 |
| 2022-02-20 | Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platformFirst breakout | lastdong | 256 | 37 |
| 2025-07-31 | Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration | poly2it | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-11-27 | Penpot: The Open-Source FigmaBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | selvan | 775 | 207 |