Easel was borne out of our frustration with the current state of design tools. Development tools have improved as the web has matured but design tools haven't. We started Easel because we want to create better design tools for the Web. Easel is a member of the Summer 2012 Y-Combinator batch and is located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Mentions in press and media 10
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| 17.09.2014 | GitHub shuts down website-designing service Easel | GitHub bought Easel back in January, but let it stay open until now It's time to say goodbye to website-designing service Easel. Back when it was announced that the company was being acquired by code-sharing website GitHub, Easel wrote that... |
| 17.09.2014 | GitHub will shutter the Easel website-designing service service it bought | GitHub, a company with a popular web service for housing developers’ code, has decided to shut down the Easel codeless website-designing service it picked up through an acquisition at the beginning of this year. “Active today, we are no lon... |
| 17.09.2014 | GitHub will shutter the Easel website-designing service service it bought | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! GitHub, a company with a popular web service for ... |
| 17.09.2014 | Easel To Shut Down Nine Months After Being Acquired By GitHub | Back when GitHub acquired Easel, a collaborative, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get HTML web design tool, Easel’s blog post on the matter implied that it would be sticking around. “Easel continues to run as it has,” it read. Alas, things change.... |
| 09.01.2014 | GitHub Acquires Y Combinator Alum Easel, A Browser-Based Web Design Tool | GitHub has acquired Easel, a browser-based WYSIWYG web design tool that launched out of Y Combinator in 2012. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The team will join GitHub and the service will continue to work as usual. Easel will als... |
| 09.01.2014 | GitHub buys Easel, picking up tech to design sites without coding | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! GitHub has built itself up into a popular service... |
| 07.06.2013 | Easel.io (YC S12) teaches you everything you need to know about typography in their Setting Type tutorial | The Easel.io team makes a simple in-browser web design tool that lets you prototype any design quickly and without having to code. They’ve made a tutorial teaching you the basics of how to use type: how to choose a font, how to select line ... |
| 21.08.2012 | Y Combinator S12 Demo Day, Batch Three: Dreamforge, BigCalc, Tracks.by, And More | Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham We’re still here at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California watching Demo Dayfor Y Combinator’s Summer 2012 class, the storied incubator’s biggest yet. Today’s 75 presentations have been ... |
| 07.08.2012 | Meet Easel, A YC-Backed Web App For Making Web Design Simpler | In-browser web design app, Easel, has just launched. The WYSIWYG web design tool aims to make web design and development easier for teams who want to quickly get their ideas online without having to hire a designer. Easel founders Ben Ogle ... |
| 07.08.2012 | Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser | An in-browser web design app, Easel, has just launched. The WYSIWYG web design tool aims to make web design and development easier for teams who want to quickly get their ideas online without having to hire a designer. Easel founders Ben O... |