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Penpot

Open-source design & prototyping

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Overview

Self-hostable Figma alternative with CSS-native exports. Perfect for privacy-conscious design teams.

Penpot open-source design & prototyping. Fully open source with no licensing fees. Audit the source, self-host, and own your stack.

Key features

  • MIT/Apache licensed core with active community
  • Self-host on any VPS or Kubernetes cluster
  • Plugin and extension ecosystem
  • No vendor lock-in on critical infrastructure

Use cases

  1. 01Run on your own VPS for full data sovereignty
  2. 02Ideal for frameworks projects in the open source stack
  3. 03Drop into an existing indie hacker toolchain with minimal migration

Quick start

git — quick start
git clone https://github.com/penpot/penpot.git
cd penpot

Stack compatibility

Traefik
design
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open source

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