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Canva just sent me a cease and desist. Not really. But they should be nervous. orcanva.app exists now, and it's free, and it's open-source, and the people who built it clearly have a grudge against subscription pricing that I find deeply relatable. Here's what nobody is saying out loud: Canva's entire business model is basically a hostage situation. Your brand kit, your templates, your carefully kerned thumbnails — all locked behind a paywall that keeps getting taller every fiscal quarter. orcanva.app just walked in and picked the lock. For zero dollars. With the source code visible to anyone who wants to look at it. The thumbnail you've been paying $16.99 a month to make slightly less ugly? You can now make it slightly less ugly for free. I've seen open-source projects try to eat enterprise software before. It usually ends with the enterprise buying the open-source project and quietly suffocating it. Watch this space. #OpenSource #DesignTools #Canva #Thumbnails #SocialMedia #FreeSoftware #GraphicDesign #ProductDesign