February 2012
1 post
No One Said Scaling Was Easy
Over the past week and a half, LayerVault hasn’t gone down, but it’s been noticeably slow for a few users. We have tools in place that allow us to monitor the individual experience of each customer to the service. If anything looks amiss, we recreate the problems and tighten the screws. We’ve been experiencing some great growth over the past few weeks, and with growth comes...
January 2012
2 posts
Announcing Unlimited Storage and 60-Day Trials
Let’s get right to the point — We’re building some pretty amazing stuff here at LayerVault. We’ve iterated on nearly every aspect of the product, made huge improvements to things like user experience and reliability. Today, we’re releasing the next iteration of the LayerVault pricing.
We’re doing away with account storage limits. As of today, all LayerVault plans...
December 2011
1 post
Improved Sharing Settings
Earlier today we rolled out improved sharing settings at the account level. Users were asking for ways to control permalink visibility and file downloads from the account level. Today, we’re happy to announce Public Permalinks and Downloadable Versions at the account level.
Public Permalinks allow the files that you work on to be collaborate on to be visible from a randomly-generated...
November 2011
2 posts
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LayerVault Love: Typekit
Typekit: We like you, do you like us? Check one [ ] Yes [ ] No
Our ears were burning and our tweet stream exploding earlier today, when the official Typekit blog featured us alongside the President, the Verge and Bearded. We are more than flattered.
Typekit is an online service that makes it easy to use high-quality fonts on our site. A good font can set you apart from the pack. Here at...
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WatchLayerVault’s file page is its most heavily used page, and as such it deserves the greatest amount of scrutiny. We’ve actually released at least 3 versions of the timeline since our first early beta — and even more updates to the file page. Here’s what we’ve learned and what we’ve changed.
In the timeline’s first version, points were equidistant from one...
October 2011
6 posts
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Staying Fast
While we build out LayerVault and continue to make it better, there are a few things we do to keep ourselves moving quickly. Most users shouldn’t notice, but we are pushing to our production servers and updating our client application several times per day. This helps us address problems quickly and—more importantly—not push broken code.
Let’s chat about how we work.
Test...
Two Weeks Down
After launching two weeks ago at FOWA in London and presenting at NYTM, we’re happy to report some great initial numbers and to say thank you. Here’s a few numbers:
Over 1,500 users.
Over 10,000 versions tracked across thousands of files.
Average support response time is less than 10 minutes.
Some of the best companies out there are using us. We’ll be profiling them in the...
Fire. Works.
Due to popular demand, we have just rolled out Adobe Fireworks support. We found that there are many folks out there that know and love Fireworks for all sorts of design work.
Download the latest version of the LayerVault OS X client and start dropping your Fireworks PNG files into your LayerVault directory.
LayerVault: All Systems Go
We are elated to announce that LayerVault has officially launched this morning from the FOWA London. We’ve also got a few new features we would like to highlight.
Collaboration and Projects
LayerVault now has the ability to help you work together in teams. Each version of a file in a Project is now saved, whether it’s yours or your teammate’s. Inviting teammates is as easy as...
September 2011
3 posts
Now with Increased Security
Earlier today, we rolled out some exciting new features that are aimed to keep your files and their versions safe. From here on out,
All sign-in, account and upgrade pages will only be served through HTTPS.
We’ve tightened up security on our file storage as well. All file requests are signed with temporary certificates that expire quickly. Evil doers, be gone!
We’ve moved to a new...
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What's New: File Drop-down Menus
We just rolled out a new feature for the directory view page: file drop-down menus. When in the thumbnail view, each file now has a drop-down menu with a few options. You can now:
Download the full version of the file
Copy the file’s permalink to share with a client or developer
Delete the file without moving it first to your archive.
This is one small convenience that is paving the...
We're LayerVault
LayerVault is version control for designers. Each time a designer creates or modifies a file, we store a copy. Each file and version is securely backed up and accessible from our web interface.
So, if you’re working on a Photoshop or Illustrator file. Every time you save, we save. Log in to LayerVault.com, and flip through versions of your PSD. If you need to revert, just download that...