@mylifcc: To avoid paying Adobe that $20/month subscription fee... Some guy overseas did something utterly absurd: He straight-up…
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A person spent $2000 on AI tokens to build a free, open-source Photoshop alternative that runs offline and supports professional features, highlighting how AI is reducing barriers to software development.
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To avoid paying Adobe that $20/month subscription fee…
Some guy overseas did something utterly absurd: He straight-up burned through $2000 worth of AI tokens, brute-forcing a local version of Photoshop into existence with pure Vibe Coding. Yup, he shelled out enough to cover 8 years of PS membership, all just to cancel Adobe 😅
But after checking out the final product, I’m floored: It runs offline across Win/Mac/Linux platforms, with full support for layers, curves, masks, liquify—everything. It even tackled the nightmare of native .PSD read/write.
Now this thing’s completely free and open-source, rocketing straight to #1 on several of Reddit’s big tech leaderboards. Some folks are mocking his math: Spending $2000 to save $20? But all I see is one terrifying takeaway: What used to take a dozens-strong engineering team two or three years to build—a pro-grade desktop app—can now be ripped apart by one person + $2000 in compute power, dismantling the core moat entirely. The era of traditional SaaS piling on basic features to collect rent? Yeah, it’s really winding down.
If it were you, would you drop $2000 on “code freedom,” or just keep quietly paying up to the big corps? 👇
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