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ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust

102 points · 115 comments · aghuang

  1. echelon · · focus · HN ↗
    Haha, I wasn't ready to post this to HN. It's not anywhere close to ready. But thank you aghuang. (I want to post this again when we clear Beta phase.)

    These are still super early alpha. All MIT/Apache licensed. No telemetry.

    I'm going to try to drive these to 100% parity but it's going to take a minute. And I'll need lots of help. (Anyone want to join me? I'll pay stipends and bug bounties.)

    I'm going to do Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, and Solidworks too. Probably a lot of stuff to collapse.

    It's not just SaaSocalypse. Everything can be open source multiplatform Rust now.

    Party like it's 1999 and the Internet / tech scene belongs to us again. We can literally deenshittify the world without breaking a sweat.

    1. hypfer · · focus · HN ↗
      The prospect does sound interesting, but if you truly push through with that, I hope that you have a capable legal team.

      Someone will make up new laws just to get rid of that specifically and that will likely even work, if one guy is behind _all_ the recreations.

      Maybe you could somehow distribute that, so that it's at least a game of whack-a-mole for the defender.

      __

      This btw is made orders of magnitude worse by the fact that you are trying to make money off those recreations, and you're doing so right now.

      So the whole "I was just a foss & rust absolutist" defense doesn't count.

      So.. eh. Idk man. Icarus with a claude jetpack I guess.

      ___

      Also, keep in mind the sums of money that are involved in what you're attacking there.

      Those are software companies with leverage of a small country. They can also simply just disappear you if you fuck with them too much. Which is not hyperbole.

      That's so much money, it bends the rules of reality you think you have outsmarted.

      1. echelon · · focus · HN ↗
        > you are trying to make money off those recreations

        These are not monetized in any way. They don't have telemetry, paywalls, or anything.

        If you're looking at the other software we've built, that's a source available (soon to be open source) Higgsfield and OpenRouter/FAL.

        1. hypfer · · focus · HN ↗
          <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getartcraft.com&#x2F;pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getartcraft.com&#x2F;pricing exists

          Yes, I know what you&#x27;re going to say that it&#x27;s technically something different, but, really, man.

          The people you&#x27;re messing with cannot simply be outsmarted on technicalities in the way a &quot;HN contrarian&quot; would win a debate on this platform.

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