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Chris Messina

Projector 2.0 - Graphic design for the Instagram age

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Projector makes graphic design fast, fun, and collaborative — like it oughtta be. From Instagram and TikTok to presentations and print, Projector gives you the tools and templates to create beautiful visuals for all your channels.

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Rob
I've been using Projector for the last seven months, and it's become a critical tool for me as a PM, Dad, and CMO (Chief Meme Officer). I've used it for Weekly Syncs, Roadmap Presentations, custom GIFs for team shoutouts, and even to inspire my son's 5th Grade Basketball team. If you need software that helps you become a better storyteller and inspire your team, Projector is it! Def on the shortlist of favorite products and believe me, I've tried them all 😂. Great work @tmobrien @peter_ahn and team!
Peter Ahn
Maker
@robsicat you've been an inspiration to our team! Thank you so much for using Projector across so many facets for your life. Also teach me the ways of becoming Chief Meme Officer! 😂
Trevor O'Brien
Maker
@robsicat we're so happy it's been useful for you, Rob! Thank you so much for your support! Excited to keep making Projector better for you.
Rob
@peter_ahn 😂 How to boost productivity with memes... that's not a bad idea for a blog post
Trevor O'Brien
Maker
Hey everybody! I'm super excited to announce the latest version of Projector — our fast, fun, multiplayer graphic design platform. With Projector, you can create all sorts of multimedia visuals, from Instagram stories, GIFs, and stickers to presentations and PDFs. And you can take those creations with you and publish them wherever they need to go — we support exporting your creations as images, videos, GIFs, or PDFs. You don't need serious design skills to create beautiful visuals in Projector. Our tools feel familiar and easy-to-use. Content integrations with Unsplash, Giphy, Shutterstock, Noun Project, and Google Fonts put the best creative catalogs at your fingertips. And our professionally-designed template library offers beautiful starting points to remix your heart out. Working on a distributed team? No sweat. Projector is fully collaborative and built for sharing. If you're curious about what's under the hood, Projector is built on a custom WebGL rendering engine with real-time collaboration and native video support. With this as our foundation, we've got lots more creative features coming soon :-) We'd love for you to give Projector a spin and let us know what you think. Just head over to projector.com to create your free account. Thanks for checking us out!
Matthew Mahgrefteh
@tmobrien awesome
Ivan Bannikov
Very interesting idea:) Should try it on my next insta post Cool product, cool team! Keep it up
Trevor O'Brien
Maker
@ivandiv Thank you, Ivan! Please give it a shot. We'd love your feedback!
Elvina Fan
Maker
@ivandiv Thanks so much for your support, Ivan! Excited to have you check it out!
Chris Messina
Hunter
Launching soon!
Been excited about this launch! So many great tools for visual creators — and this one is particularly productive given the available templates and collaborative features!
Trevor O'Brien
Maker
@chrismessina Thanks for hunting us, and thank you for the kind words, Chris!
Peter Ahn
Maker
@chrismessina thank you for your support! 🙌
Jeremy Caplan
I'm impressed with the look, feel and design of Projector. I appreciate the small touches, like the ability to adjust the timing of individual slides when exporting a slide deck as a video. The slide templates are great - looking forward to a greater variety of templates for other kinds of design projects. And being able to add audio to narrate through slides would be a great future feature. For anyone interested, I wrote up a post about Projector here: https://wondertools.substack.com...
Elvina Fan
Maker
@jeremycaplan Thanks so much, Jeremy! So glad you're enjoying Projector!
Hayley Decker
Maker
@jeremycaplan It's been really cool to see some of the things you've made in Projector. Thanks so much for being such an awesome early customer. 😊 And we have some new templates coming soon — keep an eye out!
Nashilu Mouen
We've been lucky enough to use Projector for a couple of months now. Love it ✨ It helps you cut down so much time in adding life to slides (and a little character!)
Peter Ahn
Maker
@nashilu_mouen we're lucky to work with you! Thank you :)
Fabio Sasso
I am a fan of Projector. It makes it easy to create high quality and beautiful designs to boost your storytelling.
Peter Ahn
Maker
Thank you Fabio! So grateful to have the support from you and @abduzeedo 🙏
Gwen
Projector makes my life as a designer so much easier. Everything is very straight forward, meaning you don't need a design degree to create awesome visuals. My favorite thing to use Projector for is Instagram Stories and Presentations. I feel that the quality of our instagram stories have really improved since using Projector. There is lots of great stock footage to choose from, and there is also the easy option to drag and drop your own footage in too! Creating and exporting your designs in Projector is a super quick and effortless process. All in all, I would recommend Projector to any and every business. Whether you are a small or large organization. Thank you Projector!
Peter Ahn
Maker
@gwena it's been amazing to see the great visuals you and SFJAZZ have created! Thank you for being such great customers :)
Jing Gu
Signed up for the beta and my first impression as a non-designer is that the platform hits a sweet spot between simple UI (every button makes sense) and advanced design functionalities (umm yes to embedding video/gif backgrounds in text and shapes + fast mockups for mobile). Really excited to work with this product more!
Hayley Decker
Maker
@jingg_n_tonic First of all, great PH handle :) And second, we're so glad you're liking Projector! Thank you so much for the support!
Shyamanta Baruah a.k.a Sam
Super happy to see Projector here. I'm using Projector for almost a month now and enjoying every bit of it.
Peter Ahn
Maker
@shyamantab thank you for the support!
Ken Suh
Canva on steroids. Projector made my story telling for clients & for internal meetings really easy & sleek! 10/10 would recommend!
Peter Ahn
Maker
@kenneth701 thank you for being an early customer - so great to see how much you're enjoying Projector :)
Lex
Hi, just wondering how this product differs from canva?
Trevor O'Brien
Maker
@new_user_601bf4eedc Hey Lex, thanks for the question! First off, Projector is built for collaboration — everything in our app is multiplayer, real-time collaborative. Second, we make features that are typically only available in pro design tools easier for everyone to use. For instance, we offer a pen tool you can use to create custom shapes. And you can fill those shapes with images and even video. And if you wanna go a step further, you can even add special effects to that video. Since our app is built on a video game-quality graphics engine, there are lots of creative features we can offer that others can't, so you can expect more unique creative features from us soon. And the last thing I'd say is that our approach to templates is pretty different. Each of our templates was created by a professional designer at one of the top design agencies in San Francisco. We want to give everyone access to use and remix professional quality design. Hope this is helpful! Much more coming soon!
Hunter Walk
flexible and gorgeous
Peter Ahn
Maker
Thank you @hunterwalk!
Rishi Garg
So proud of this team and what they've created -- finally a modern multi-modal design platform for all of us. Great job!
Peter Ahn
Maker
Thank you for your support throughout the way @rishigarg!
Emily Simmons
Amazing product! We jumped on and started using Projector on day 1 after signing up, and it continues to be our go-to, intuitively easy, creator tool.
Hayley Decker
Maker
@emily_simmons1 Thank you for supporting us since the very beginning! We're so excited and grateful to have you as an early customer 😊
Trevor O'Brien
Maker
@emily_simmons1 Thank you, Emily! We're so happy it's useful for you all!
Nick Frost
Projector is amazing! Definitely recommend anyone that creates slides, memes, content for social, etc to try it out. 🙌 It’s like Canva with superpowers.
Peter Ahn
Maker
@thinker thank you Nick!
Eric Anderson
Lots of good things said about Projector here, so I’ll just add that it’s a TON of fun to use! There aren’t many tools out there that give you significant creative capabilities yet are extremely simple to understand. Absolutely give Projector a try.
Trevor O'Brien
Maker
@theericanderson Thank you, Eric! We're all about the fun :-)
Morgan Allan Knutson
Projector is awesome!
Peter Ahn
Maker
@morganknutson thank you for sending your awesome, creative friends our way :)
Trevor O'Brien
Maker
@morganknutson Thanks, Morgan! Means a lot coming from you!
Kerry Bennett
For those of us who are design-minded but not design-tool-skilled, Projector is the perfect solution. My slide-creation paralysis is very much reduced and it's easy to iterate content creation without adding more to the design queue backlog. Love working with Projector!
Trevor O'Brien
Maker
@kerrykb Thank you, Kerry! We're so grateful for your support! And hope you're doing well :-)
Joe Decker
Great product! Very intuitive and user friendly. Even for us Boomers.
Trevor O'Brien
Maker
@mrjoedecker 😂 Thank you!