For reference sake, their previous post, dated Jan. 1, 2014, states that they (the team, presumably) were acquired by Github, and they had a vague promise that things would remain the same:
> What does this means to you, our users? Easel continues to run as it has. We’ll continue to provide support and all of our paid plans will continue to enjoy their current benefits. We’re excited to begin this new chapter and hope you’ll love what we have in store.
I've always seen these products as amazing technical achievements...but of limited market. For more programming/scripting-focused devs like me, such a product can never uproot the (perhaps crusty, but trusted) toolset and workflow we've invested in. For visually-focused designers, they get paid plenty do do beautiful designs that are then sliced from Photoshop...so they don't even need to bother with making exportable code. And then for all the others...product managers and etc....the need to prototype a site happens what...at most, once every two to three months...That is not a sustainable rate of use for a tool that inevitably has some bit of learning curve.
second edit: durr, OP was acquired by Github not Easel
http://blog.easel.io/blog/2014/01/06/easel-acquired-by-githu...
> What does this means to you, our users? Easel continues to run as it has. We’ll continue to provide support and all of our paid plans will continue to enjoy their current benefits. We’re excited to begin this new chapter and hope you’ll love what we have in store.
Edit: More reference...their highly upvoted Show HN from two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4113866
I've always seen these products as amazing technical achievements...but of limited market. For more programming/scripting-focused devs like me, such a product can never uproot the (perhaps crusty, but trusted) toolset and workflow we've invested in. For visually-focused designers, they get paid plenty do do beautiful designs that are then sliced from Photoshop...so they don't even need to bother with making exportable code. And then for all the others...product managers and etc....the need to prototype a site happens what...at most, once every two to three months...That is not a sustainable rate of use for a tool that inevitably has some bit of learning curve.
second edit: durr, OP was acquired by Github not Easel