@larsherold said in Is VectorStyler a one-person project?:

I wonder if @VectorStyler has a strategy of remaining elusive and anonymous, forever hidden behind the alias?

No such plans I'm just trying to focus on the app, not the person
I'm Csaba Raduly-Baka (of Hungarian origin) and I also teach CS at the University of Turku, Finland

He's the international man of mystery!

I wonder if @VectorStyler has a strategy of remaining elusive and anonymous, forever hidden behind the alias?

No such plans I'm just trying to focus on the app, not the person
I'm Csaba Raduly-Baka (of Hungarian origin) and I also teach CS at the University of Turku, Finland

In VectorStyler, bugs will be more than lucky to survive a quarter. VectorStyler's one-man army of a programmer is incredibly professionally competent, ambitious, and has an outstanding and awe-inspiring respect for his customers.

The three best things that have happened to me as a graphic designer in the past few years are:

• I discovered and focused on VectorStyler
• I switched from Windows to macOS (where VS shines)
• I stopped using Affinity

Also, take note of how this forum is blessed with mature, respectful members. A facepalm-free forum.

One man, but many and great achievements. I am deeply impressed.

I appreciate that while it is a retail product, it feels like a passion project, but being developed in an organized and considered way. I think it is paying off as the more I use VS, the more I realize it's an indispensable tool. There's already plenty of 5-click, 1-stop shop graphics programs out there in the wild. Still, I have imported some of my raster/photography work with no issue and make sheets with cut lines on the fly for a Cricut. So I've been using it also for simpler projects with few objections. I am missing having a separate work area of sorts like I had with Export Persona in Affinity as I like to have my files pre-setup for this, but for most of my exports I did just simply use File>Export in Affinity. Especially if they were one offs.

By comparison though, Affinity gave me too many headaches with trying to achieve polished output, dealing with developers who speak like crafty PR people and forcing its weird rather programmatic decisions onto users. Eventually that became a deal breaker. Adobe is clunky to output with (except maybe PS) and the workflows between raster<->vector are painful when different customizations were being considered, so for me it was never the most optimal solution.

Anyway, I especially appreciate that VS is not trying to be any of these programs and focuses on what it is built to do and does that very well. With document mgmt/output and UX improvements that make considered workflows seamless and effortless, I think that VS will have no problem finding itself a part of other designer's toolsets overtime as it will be hard to find anything else remotely comparable in the near future.

I'm also kind of worried about the developer in terms of workload, from a work-life balance standpoint.

We must protect this man at all costs!

I wish you the best.

Apart from the feature list and impressive tools of VectorStyler itself,
the most impressive thing about it is the fact that it is a one-person project.

But aside from that, many users are willing to help him in one way or another.
As you can see in this forum.