About

Who made this?

Me. Ashwath. A designer who got tired of saving .fig files and then needing a paid plan to properly use them.

Say hello on LinkedIn or poke around on GitHub.

Why Nagma?

I've been designing for a long time, and every time I switched organisations, I ended up with a bunch of .fig files saved on my computer. But without a paid seat of my own, I couldn't keep working on them properly. They had multiple pages, components, variants, and other things that needed a paid plan.

I wasn't going to put one company's files into another company's account either. So the files mostly just sat there.

I wanted somewhere I could open my own files and work on them whenever I felt like it, without depending on a subscription or an account from work. That's really why I started building Nagma.

The honest bit

I know it's hard to believe someone saying their app will stay free. A lot of tools start that way, and then things change once people get used to them.

I'm making Nagma because I wanted something like this myself. I want to keep it free, and I plan to keep working on it. But it's just me right now, so I don't want to make promises I might not be able to keep.

That's also why it's open source under MPL-2.0. If I can't continue someday, someone else can pick it up and keep it going. I'd be happy knowing people still find it useful.

If you plan to sue me

Please don't. I come from a modest middle-class family, and I already spend a huge amount on my AI tool subscription.

When the tokens go unused, it bothers me. It's like buying concert tickets and leaving after the sound check. I paid for the whole thing. Let them at least sing.

So this anxiety kept building up, and I started looking for things to make. I didn't have much work left to do with the AI tool. Then one day, I looked at my .fig files and thought, why not try building this? I had the tokens anyway.

So technically, it wasn't me. It was my anxiety. And the anxiety came from the AI tool's subscription. So please sue whoever came up with that. Or the CEO. There's probably more money there anyway.

And if your app also has tokens that expire, then you should understand. You're also doing this to people.

It's just me

Nagma is currently one designer working on it after work.

I plan to keep maintaining it, and there's a lot I still want to build. Things might break. Fixes might take a little time. But I'm here, and I'd like to make it better.

If you'd like to help:

• Use it and tell me what breaks: open an issue.
• Run a server for your team and tell me how it goes.
• Send code. The contributing guide is short on purpose.

Buy me a coffee

Things people assume

"So it's free until it isn't." I get why you'd ask. My plan is to keep it free. It's also open source, so you can see the code and build on it under the licence.

"Where's the catch?" Your files live on your computer, or on a server you choose. Hosting and any AI services you connect may have their own costs. And yes, there will probably be a few bugs. Please tell me about those.

"Who's the cat?" I don't have a cat. I actually like dogs more. Yet here we are.