Ashiq Hussain Mir
ReportSolo maintainer of Canvix. Final-year student building the free, open-source design tool full-time around classes, and looking for a development runway to keep that pace through v1.0.
Canvix
Free & open-source graphic design tool — a community-built Canva alternative. A browser-based drag-and-drop editor with a 366-template library, real-time collaboration, local exports (PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF, PPTX, GIF, video) and a modular AI layer split into text, vision, image and video capability slots that plug into any provider. MIT-licensed; every feature free forever, no watermarks, no paywalls.
Final-year tuition — full-time development runway
Milestone 1 of 3 (USD 4,000). Covers final-year tuition so the maintainer can keep building Canvix at full-time pace instead of trading development hours for part-time work. Deliverable: sustained weekly release cadence through the academic year.
Local hardware upgrade — faster build & test loops
Milestone 2 of 3 (USD 2,000). RAM and CPU upgrade for the local dev machine. Direct effect: faster compiles and test runs — the 1,400+ unit tests and the Playwright e2e suite gate every release, so shorter loops mean shorter release cycles and faster security fixes.
Living expenses — ship Canvix v1.0
Milestone 3 of 3 (USD 1,000). Living-expense support for the final push to v1.0: API stabilization, documentation, and the first stable, semver-committed release.