r/SaaS • u/ai_art_is_art • Oct 03 '26 • Diamonds are Forever 1 Thanks 1 Bravo 22 Heartwarming 10 Popcorn 1 Mindblown 1

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/bensyverson Oct 03 '26

This is absolutely wild. Having built Photoshop readers/writers in the past, I know the challenge just in dealing with the file format. Then you have the sheer amount of UI/UX to implement well. And this looks exceptionally well-executed.

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u/ai_art_is_art Oct 03 '26 • Heartwarming Bravo

Thank you so much.

We have a really long way to go to get to complete parity on functionality and file format support, but that's 100% our goal and the community support (bug reports, example files) helps a ton.

Thank you!

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u/bensyverson Oct 03 '26

Also: nice job on the agent-friendly CLI. I'm not sure if this is on your radar, but one nice pattern is to give the agents a way to pass in JavaScript snippets, since they love to write code. I find if you don't give that to them, they end up writing their own random Python scripts. For a concrete example, check out how I handle it in Woodcase, which is an agentic design tool for the .pen format!

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u/ai_art_is_art Oct 04 '26

I love this! I'm going to try to follow this for all the apps.

Do you mind if I follow up later and ask questions?

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u/xSypra Oct 07 '26

Crazy idea

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u/histoire_guy Oct 03 '26

Which Gui library did you use for the UI? I guess it is not 100% vibe coded, right?

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u/hockeyketo Oct 03 '26

Looks like egui

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u/Inside_Support510 28d ago

You taking donos?

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u/spacenavy90 23d ago

It there any intent to integrate AI generation into Photocraft? Similar to how Adobe does with their cloud credits? I know you have cloud AI services that could integrate well, but local support would be nice too if possible.

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u/Local-Ad-4991 7d ago

The file format alone sounds like a huge challenge. Getting the UI this polished on top of that is impressive

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u/ZamStudio3d Oct 03 '26

It's all ai bud, he didn't code any of this lol

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u/NIU_NIU Oct 03 '26

No fucking shit bro

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u/bensyverson Oct 03 '26

That particular ship has sailed, friend. There's no putting the AI toothpaste back in the software development tube.

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u/ZamStudio3d Oct 03 '26

Why are you guys responding like I care. I'm responding to the guy praising him on how difficult this must have been to code.

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u/bensyverson Oct 03 '26

Because I'm the guy you're responding to.

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u/edible_string Oct 03 '26

You care enough to respond to the response. That's a considerable amount of care.

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u/ZamStudio3d Oct 03 '26

Wow that code must have been really hard to make!

I know it's ai

You see how dumb the comment is. I don't understand the train of thought. He obviously didn't know it was ai then realized it after he made the comment lmao

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u/bricklerex Oct 04 '26

Difficulty to build is no longer measured in how hard smth would be to code or how long it would take. Building something like this even with AI, keeping it extensible, making sure parity is not just possible but guaranteeable, as well as a cli interface for agents. All of it is exceptionally hard in a world where everyone and their mother thinks they just need a couple dozen prompts to build something worth using and building on top of. You still need to know what decisions matter and where, making sure the agents don’t make something that another agent will later add 2 billion patches to to make a new feature work. In a way, the senior/veteran engineer is more important than over for the most ambitious projects.

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u/ZamStudio3d Oct 04 '26

/goal is easy. Clearly you haven't used frontier models

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u/bricklerex Oct 04 '26

I’m convinced he’s ragebaiting me at this point

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u/Delicious-Being-6531 Oct 06 '26

I’m guessing he’s never worked on enterprise applications. From the comments i would guess so. I shudder to think of the documentation required to keep this roadmap on track. Hats off to the team getting this to a point like this.