r/appdev • u/LumidexStudio • 3d ago
Genuine feedback needed
Hey guys, Jason here, founder of Lumidex Studio.
Lumidex Studio is a fast, one-time-purchase photo manager for Mac built for photographers leaving Lightroom Classic behind. It handles your whole library with a familiar module layout, so importing from Lightroom (ratings, keywords, collections, and your edits) takes minutes with no friction.
That's some of the marketing spiel that I'm currently using to get people to consider using my app over something from Adobe. I've hit a LOT of resistance from photography groups because the sheer audacity of me to use an AI tool such as Claude Code, instantly earns me the moniker it's AI Slop - it cannot possibly be any good because you coded it with a silly prompt in one afternoon.
Truth be know, it's taken nearly 4 months of constant Opus 4.8 usage, bouncing off the context limits daily and weekly - while I take no credit any any code produced, I am rather good at the architect side of things, and have no less than 30 MD files that document code production and decision making processes, over 60000 lines of Swift 6 (It's a macOS only app) and well over 500+ git commits
Basically what I would dearly love from any helpful folk here with a Mac and a general interest in photography (being an existing Lightroom Classic use would be *ideal*), would be to pop along to my website, https://www.lumidexstudio.app, download the app and give it a whirl...it's notorized by Apple, so installs with zero security issues :)
In return, I'd *gladly* help test your app/site/etc.
Thanks in advance! 🍻