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He took a picture of the poster and showed it to me the next day, and since we were very familiar with the iPhone and iPad we started discussing if we could build something to do this with an iPad. One day Giovanni went for his end of day run and came across a poster advertising the Microsoft Surface with a stylus while running Photoshop. We did okay at contracting, but we wanted to build a product company, so we were always on the lookout for and playing with new ideas, and we had a lot of bad ideas. In 2013 we serendipitously met through Twitter again and started doing contract development together. We hit it off but ultimately ended up going different directions for almost 7 years. We first met in 2006 as interns at Apple after being placed in corporate housing together, as I’m originally from Chicago and he’s from northern Italy. Once we tasted the freedom of having a business, we knew that was ultimately the direction we wanted.
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We separately dabbled in making shareware utilities for the Mac market back in the ’90s with some success.
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My co-founder and I are both software engineers with an entrepreneurial streak that we’ve had from an early age.

What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?

Our first year selling products was 2015 where we made $500,000 and we’ve grown that to $3.4 million in revenue last year.

My cofounder Giovanni Donelli and I started the company in 2013 and through bootstrapping we’ve grown the team to 16 people across 5 countries.
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You plug the Luna device into your Mac and then install the app on the device you’d like to use as your 2nd monitor, and you’re all set! Our second product, Luna Display is a small hardware dongle that turns the iPad or another Mac into a wireless second display. We’re incredibly proud that Astropad Studio is used by tens of thousands of creative professionals and companies like Pixar, DC Comics, Disney, Nintendo, Twitter, and even Star Wars! Our two main products are Astropad Studio and Luna Display.Īstropad Studio is an app that mirrors your Mac on to your iPad, turning it into a high-end drawing tablet. At Astropad, we make software and hardware tools for creative people. My name is Matt Ronge and I’m Cofounder and CEO at Astropad. (to bad I don't own an Apple computer just an iPad so I can't use it anyway)Īlso for your info: The iPad 2 is the ONLY apple Product I have, Not a fan of they're products.Hello! Who are you and what business did you start? This has its uses & is more limited than a "real" tablet, but it sure as hell beats using my computer mouse so I would gladly use this. If a tablet was affordable with a screen for me, I would use it. It is good enough since Lightroom does not rely on "how much pressure are you using" When you want to do quick work for example to take away the background or do spot removal or brush a bit? Yes I own an iPad, the iPad 2, I am NOT going to buy a new tablet every year.Īnd YES the iPad is inferior to a Wacom tablet that costs thousands of dollars, but to be honest? I love reading the idiotic comments here "the ipad sucks, i cant wait for the ipad defender army to come here to attack us because they are such a**holes & we are not despite us attacking anyone who owns an iPad.
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The iPad app can be downloaded free form the App Store and the Mac companion app can be purchased for $49.99 at A $19.99 educational version is also available and you can make use of the 7 day trial before you hit the purchase button. Astropad also claims the system delivers excellent image quality without any compression artifacts and colors that are true to the source material.Īstropad supports all iPads with iOS 8 and all Macs with 10.9 (Mavericks) or a newer operating system. LIQUID allows for very smooth operation at 60 fps which is double the rate of Apple's own AirPlay technology. The Astropad works with most styluses and its makers claim their system is being used by photographers not only for retouching and image editing, but is also useful for illustration, sketching and painting tasks.Īstropad works via Wi-Fi or USB connections using the proprietary LIQUID technology. Two former Apple engineers have today launched Astropad, an app for Apple's iPad and Mac computer that turns the former into a drawing tablet for the latter and allows you to use applications such as Photoshop with more precision.
