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

102 points · 115 comments · aghuang

brazukadev · 1791166079 · focus · HN ↗
Honestly the scrollbar is infuriating. Can't expect any better attention to UX from the apps.
1. echelon · 1791167066 · focus · HN ↗
  I'm sorry! I didn't mean to publish the repos so soon. This project is brand new. There's been a lot of excitement about this, but we have a long way to go.
  If this is about the desktop apps and not the website, I'd love it if you could file an issue. We're going to work through everything.
  1. brazukadev · 1791167826 · focus · HN ↗
    My fault, I shouldn't be putting you down for developing something and making it public. The mix of grandiose with slop is a bit weird and dangerous tho a bit of humbleness would fit well as we know the effort you put to this isn't much yet. Unless you have years of experience in the video/image editing software.
    Nobody is beating Adobe with "claude create for me a clone of the adobe suite". Someone that knows what they are doing need to be behind it. It might be you but it would take years of experience if you don't have them yet.
    alwillis · 1791181356 · focus · HN ↗
    > Nobody is beating Adobe with "claude create for me a clone of the adobe suite".
    They're not trying to "beat Adobe" and they certainly didn't wake up one day and tell Claude to make the entire Adobe suite of products.
    However, in the not-too-distant future, it'll be the norm to pay $0 for apps and buy AI tokens when needed. That's what Canva did with Affinity--you pay $0 for Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher that are just as good and in some cases better than Adobe's apps.
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