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Ask HN: I created Canva Alternative with 200+ Tools

Pixoate, a free Canva and IlovePDF alternative offering 200+ tools including AI-powered background removal and upscaling, has been launched on Hacker News by its developer, who left his job to work on the project full-time. The platform provides 1,111+ templates and 21,000 backgrounds, with most features free and premium plans available. The developer is seeking feedback and advice on scaling and distribution.

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Hi HN, I created Pixoate. Pixoate is Canva and IlovePDF Alternative, That Offers Photo Editing, AI features like Remove BG, PDF tools, We have lots of 1111+ templaed, 21000 backgrounds, Remove BG features, Upscale with AI etc. and Much More at same destination.

It was free from last 4 years, I left my JOB to do Full time on it.

Most of its features are Free and User can see the value before Going For Premium Plans.

This is my First SAAS, So i wanted to know your reviews and Feedback what i should improve and How can i scale and do distribution for it. (as i am from Software Development Experience)

Try and Share Your Experience/Feedback: https://pixoate.com/photo-editor Thanks

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122917](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122917)

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news.ycombinator.com — original article Is AI Capable of Novelty? How does the Code Execution tool sandbox arbitrary code the LLM generates? Ask HN: What are you using for LLM inference in production?
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