Media editor: build vs buy in the age of AI
Polotno

Showcase

Built with Polotno

Every product here ships design editing its own users touch — and none of their teams built a canvas editor to get there. Print storefronts, AI social tools, signage platforms, and one exhibition hall where teenagers design a lamp they then manufacture next door.

AI and social media

Product walkthrough

Pletor

AI startup

A French workflow platform for brand visuals, where Polotno is the controllable last-mile edit between AI generation and final render.

Live in ~1 week · ~10k renders/mo

The cool thing about generative AI is you can generate a lot of things, but sometimes you need more consistency or last mile editing.

Antoine Sueur · CTO @ Pletor
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Boardssey overview

Boardssey

Digital product

A board game creation platform where designing the cards, boards and sell sheets is a native part of making the game.

We didn't think about building our own thing at all. From the moment we started the company, bringing Polotno in was the natural next step.

Anca Bujor · Co-Founder @ Boardssey
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Postiz's calendar with the embedded Polotno image editor open

Editor inside the content calendar

Postiz

Social media

Social media scheduling where post creatives are designed in-app rather than uploaded from somewhere else.

Web-to-print and manufacturing

Backend demo

Peleman

Web-to-print

Printed presentations and photo products since 1939, with a customer-facing design setup that used to take weeks to configure.

Now for simple customers we can have a setup ready in a matter of hours.

Chris Schippers · Software Engineer @ Peleman
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Product overview

Momentu

Web-to-print

Austrian print products for weddings, baptisms and memorials, personalized by the buyer before anything goes to press.

You put in a bug report and you get the solution back a couple of hours later, and then we can deploy the update to our system. That's the way we want to work with other people.

Philipp Stampfl · CTO / Co-founder @ Momentu
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Spelsberg's EasyPrint junction box design configurator

EasyPrint configurator

Custom-printed industrial junction boxes, where a live editor places logos and safety labels onto the selected box before ordering.

See your design instantly — no complex software, no hassle.

Spelsberg EasyPrint

The Roastify Designer

Roastify

Web-to-print

A coffee roasting and fulfillment operation whose creators design their own packaging, at production scale and with no design expertise.

Live in 1 day · 300+ dev hours saved

It hits this sweet spot where it has what we would've wanted to develop, but at a price point where I'm not going to do that.

Jordan Rising · CTO / Co-founder @ Roastify
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Cover personalization in the product

Heirloom

Ecommerce

Physical books with built-in HD screens that play your videos when opened, with covers the buyer personalizes at checkout.

Our only alternative would have been to implement our own cover design editor. That would have amounted to a lot of development time, a lot of maintenance, and would have missed huge features.

Zack Bloom · Co-founder @ Heirloom
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Signage and real estate

Polotno inside HUMEcloud

HUMElab

Digital signage

France-based digital signage for hotels and retailers like Ibis, where clients now build and change their own screen content.

1 month instead of 10

What's cool about Polotno is that there is an update every week with a new cool feature. And we don't have to focus on that. We can just say, oh yeah, we want that. So we add it, but we don't have to develop it.

Simon Provost · Full stack developer @ HUMElab
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Product highlights

Aryeo

Real estate

Real estate media software where agents turn their own listing photography into marketing without leaving the platform.

Education and community

Product demo

CoaMaker

Niche content

An online heraldry tool whose editor is Polotno stripped back to only the tools a coat of arms needs.

Polotno is a stable choice for building a business on it.

Dr. Sven Speer · Founder @ CoaMaker
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Freeed's embedded Polotno canvas editor

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Embedded canvas editor

Freeed.com

Education

A global teacher community where educators build their own classroom materials instead of uploading finished files.

The integration process was relatively straightforward and we've got good help from Polotno.

Heikki Rusama · Freeed Founder / CEO

Designing a classroom poster

Classroom resources for Jewish day schools, where teachers design their own posters, worksheets and bulletin-board sets on the site and order them printed.

A Polotno workstation at Berufserlebniswelt Salzburg, sticker panel open and the exhibition logo on the canvas

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A workstation in the OFFICE area

A career-exploration space for school classes, where teens design the label for a lamp at six Polotno workstations and then manufacture it in the workshop next door.

The kids really enjoy this moment of being a professional graphic designer.

Maria Rockvam · Otelo eGen, concept and art direction

The longer stories

Fourteen of these teams sat down with us and walked through what they replaced, what it cost them, and what changed after.

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Questions

Q: Can I be featured here?

Yes. If you have shipped something with Polotno SDK, tell us about it in the community and we will add it — with a link back to your site.

Q: How long did these integrations take?

It varies with how much of the editor you customize. CoaMaker was configured in a few hours, Predis.ai was running in one to two weeks, and teams doing deeper customization measure it in months rather than quarters.

Q: What is the difference between a showcase entry and a case study?

A showcase entry is a short description of what someone built. A case study is a longer interview about why they built it that way and what changed afterwards.

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