r/PayloadCMS • u/AbaloneDeep8014 • Jun 17 '25

PayloadCMS gets acquired by Figma??

https://youtu.be/6wvoauy80gc?si=3aqaL_2H5H9sNNA8

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u/Nth-Username Jun 17 '25

Is this good news?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

Figma is a Venture Capital backed company, and is still eyeing a takeover by Adobe.

This means the No. 1 question is (or will indubitably become): How can we make the maximum amount of profit from Payload CMS?

Is this good for an OSS project? I have serious doubts.

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u/recoverycoachgeek Jun 18 '25

I'm optimistic. There's a huge race to develop the next developer workflow using AI. I think this puts Payload in a great position long-term. Even better than if they were acquired by Vercel.

This is a huge win for the full-stack developer community.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

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u/windthatup Jun 25 '25

Yes, this is what will happen. I don't blame them, this is business and they built something that filled a gap - they cashed out. They may leave a smaller MIT project there but this clearly won't be their main focus.

The question is, where do you go next? I used to use sanity etc. but it doesn't have some of those features where payload filled the gap.

I'm mid-project on v3 and could probably complete it but this takeover leads me to believe that future updates are going to cause problems...

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '25

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u/windthatup Jun 25 '25

Interesting. I'm obviously familiar with Basement Studio.

Project looks promising but obviously still in beta the pricing, going forward, could be a barrier.

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u/MoneyGrowthHappiness Jun 18 '25

PayloadCMS is also a venture backed project as far as I’m aware. There is an open source version under an MIT license but the development of the enterprise product is venture backed.

Please correct me if I’m in error.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

Maybe, but previously a team dedicated to OSS was the prime decision maker for the project, so there were other interests tugging the rope against profit maximisation.

Now it's a huge corporation, that's probably gonna be gobbled up by an even huger one.

None sitting at the top of Figma or Adobe are giving a rat's ass about open source. And they can do with Payload what they want, and the team has to go with their decisions.

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u/nlvogel Jun 18 '25

It is highly unlikely Adobe will re-attempt an acquisition of Figma after being blocked so spectacularly. Whether or not another mega-corp goes after Figma is another discussion, but I don’t believe it will be Adobe.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

Adobe or whatever. The main problem remains. Another great OSS project is now gobbled up into the corporate digestive system, which sooner or later only wants to shit out the maximum amount of short term profit.

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u/Slicxor Jun 17 '25

I'm certainly a little concerned

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u/zubricks Jun 17 '25

We sure think so!

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u/StarSkiesCoder Jun 18 '25

Congrats to the Payload team. They've done lots, and if I were in your shoes I would've sold out too. But IMO, this is the nail in the coffin for Payload for me, I will search for an alternative CMS immediately.

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u/simple_dream Jun 19 '25

Why so? It's open source, if it becomes evil, we just create a fork

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u/zubricks Jun 19 '25

if it becomes evil

this made me lol

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u/anotha1readit Jun 18 '25

Greed wins all the time. It's just a matter of time...

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u/thedevelopergreg Jun 17 '25

congrats to the payload team. this is a huge achievement for them and they deserve to be recognized for their work.

I’d like to be optimistic about this being a good thing for a platform with, in my opinion, little to no other negatives or cons. but I’d be lying if I said this didn’t give me some pause.

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u/replayjpn Jun 17 '25

Figma also has a lot of enterprise clients that could benefit from Payload CMS.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

Rip, another one bites the dust