The best work happens when making things feels fun. If a feature is powerful but joyless, it isn't done yet.
★ ORIGIN STORY ★
WE MADE THE TOOL
WE WANTED!
PopCraft started as a dare: could one browser tab hold a vector editor, a paint app, a pixel studio and a whiteboard — and still feel like a comic book? Turns out, yes.
ISSUE #0
THE ORIGIN STORY
PopCraft started the way most tools do: one person, too many apps open. A vector tool for the UI, a paint app for the key art, a pixel editor for the sprites, a whiteboard for the plan — and a folder full of screenshots ferrying work between all four.
Somewhere around 3am the question was obvious enough to be annoying: why is none of this on the same canvas? There wasn't a good answer. So the renderer got written.
One very stubborn WebGPU pipeline and an unreasonable number of halftone dots later, PopCraft is that canvas: vectors, brushes, pixel art, prototypes and sticky notes, living in one file, editable together in real time, right in your browser.
Every tool we loved made us pick a lane. We wanted a canvas that says YES, AND.
BY THE NUMBERS
POW! FACTS
1
Canvas for everything
120fps
WebGPU rendering, even at 10k layers
1+1
One human, one dog
∞
Undo. Seriously. Go wild.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
THE POPCRAFT CODE
ONE CANVAS
YES!Pixels, vectors and paint aren't different departments. They are different brushes on the same page.
FAST OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN
ZOOM!We measure frame times like other companies measure revenue. The GPU does the heavy lifting so you never wait.
YOUR FILES ARE YOURS
MINE!Work offline, export everything, script it through the API. No hostage formats, ever.
BUILD IN THE OPEN
HELLO!Plugins, widgets and a public API mean the community can take PopCraft places we never imagined.
BE KIND, BE LOUD
HEY!Strong opinions, generous feedback, zero jerks. Bold colors are welcome; bold egos are not.
THE STORY SO FAR
PREVIOUSLY ON POPCRAFT
- 2023
THE 3AM QUESTION
Five open apps and one question: why isn't this all on one canvas? The first WebGPU triangle renders two weeks later.
- 2024
HELLO, MULTIPLAYER
Live cursors, comments and a collaboration engine that survives flaky café Wi-Fi.
- 2025
BRUSHES & PIXELS
Raster paint with Procreate brush import lands, followed by a full pixel-art studio with animation and sprite-sheet export.
- 2026
ISSUE #1 HITS THE STANDS
Plugins, widgets, the public API, a desktop app — and this very website, drawn in PopCraft, obviously.
THE CAST
MEET THE TEAM
🦸
Space Devin
FOUNDER
Writes the shaders, the docs and the sound effects. Strong feelings about drop shadows: they should be hard.
🐶
Cozmoo
CHIEF MORALE OFFICER
Very good boy. Attends every stand-up, which is just Devin talking to him. Has never once shipped a bug.
That's the whole team. PopCraft is one person and one dog — which is either a red flag or the reason it got built. We're hiring, genuinely →