Pixelapse
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Pixelapse was a visual version-control and collaboration platform for designers — often described as 'GitHub for designers.' Founded in Palo Alto by Shravan Reddy and Min Ming Lo (a Y Combinator Winter 2012 company, also backed by Stanford's StartX), it powered the document backup, version control and collaboration needs of tens of thousands of freelance designers and creative teams, supporting 50+ file formats including Photoshop and Illustrator with annotation and visual-comparison tools.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- YC W12
Pixelapse joins Y Combinator Winter 2012 and Stanford's StartX, building visual version control for design projects.
- Acquired by Dropbox
On January 26, 2015, Dropbox acquires Pixelapse (terms undisclosed) to bring its collaboration and workflow experience into the core Dropbox product. Pixelapse continues as a standalone product for a year before a migration plan.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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