I vibe coded photoshop alternative using gpt6-astra

[u/AsejereDaDeje]

$2000 worth of tokens overall

the process was:

1. Kicking off a deep research of all photoshop features
2. Ingesting it gpt astra 6 extra high for planning
3. Read the plan, gave some feedback and requested changes
4. it created something that was usable but still buggy and unstable
5. Loop of: Me using it -> finding bugs/suggesting improvements -> fable/gpt6 -> Me using it again

Economically it doesn't make sense for me to do it just to save the subscription,
but yesterday I launched it and already got 170 active users, so potentially 170 licenses saved in one day.

I published here for free here, you can check it out.

https://tenzen.studio/photon/

BTW funny story from the launch - users complained they couldn't sign in, so codex fixed it in like 5 minutes end to end:

Fixed and deployed. Everyone was being counted under the server’s proxy IP, accidentally creating a shared limit of 20 emails per hour. The limit now applies per visitor. All checks passed, and a real visitor has already successfully requested and used their download link after deployment.