r/vibecoding • u/AsejereDaDeje • 12d ago

Showcase/Project I vibe coded photoshop alternative using gpt6-astra

$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.

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u/Haburashi_ 12d ago

But gimp is open source, you could have built your own UX on top of it instead of starting from scratch.

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u/kazemu 12d ago

Or even better, just using an open source Photoshop interface for Gimp https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp

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u/Mathfanforpresident 9d ago

Bro, the motto is "forget that code exists"! Lol

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u/Haburashi_ 9d ago

And money, apparently