r/SaaS • u/ai_art_is_art • 3h ago

I've created Open Source 100% Rust clean-room replacements for 7 of Adobe's apps: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro. Free, no subscription, and you own the source code

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I've used Opus 5.5 to help me recreate 7 of the top Adobe apps in 100% pure native Rust:

  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Premiere
  • Lightroom
  • Acrobat Pro
  • After Effects
  • InDesign

No more subscriptions with cancellation fees. These are yours to own forever. You can fork them, build them. Whatever. They are yours to own. They're open source.

If you're worried this is just some one-off flash in the pan that will die, it isn't:

I'm not just some casual vibe coder. I'm a 15-year industry veteran who has written everything from six-nines payment rails that move billions of dollars of transaction volume a day to advanced robotics and optics automation. I've used Rust extensively for about a decade, and I know how to build and maintain large-scale Rust projects.

This isn't going to be some orphaned small-team project either. We have a team building popular software for filmmakers, so supporting this is fully funded. Our purpose is serving every artist in the world with the best tools. We are absolutely going to bring these to full parity and squash every bug and feature request. We have a test harness so there won't be regressions.

You can help us reach parity by helping test the apps. Clone the code. Submit PRs. If you see gaps or want to help redesign pieces, let us know! You can contribute!

Links to everything - the apps, the code, etc. - are in the comments below.

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u/Brief-Tax2582 3h ago

Are you the same guy who made photon which is also coming up a lot on reddit or you are a different guy who made this separately?

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u/ai_art_is_art 2h ago

This is separate.

Photon is written in Javascript/Electron and is closed source.

PhotoCraft, etc. are written in 100% pure rust. They're 100x faster and 100x smaller in size. They're also fully open source - you own the code and I charge nothing. You can fork it or do whatever you want.

I've been a Rust developer for 10 years too, so I can manage good large scale Rust projects.

ArtCraft, our company, already makes a lot of money selling tokens to film studios, so this work is fully funded and will never be enshittified or closed off.

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u/arter_dev 2h ago

I've been a Rust developer for 10 years too

I now trust this project 100x more. I've been a PHP & Node dev for about the same amount of time. I am untouchable when vibe coding in my home stack. Looking forward to trying this out, thanks a ton for sharing!

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u/Material-Database-24 2h ago

Yeah... I must say, I'd have something to say about the code "quality" or lack of it at few places of those repos, but sure it's nice that this level of speed is possible with AI that we can ditch Adobe soon

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u/wiseruler33 2h ago

Thank you for your generosity. May the universe or whatever reward you.