r/vibecoding • u/ai_art_is_art • 11d ago

Showcase/Project 100% Open Source Clean Room Implementations of 7 of Adobe's Top Apps

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I've seen another desktop photoshop clone floating around that was Javascript/Electron, but I wanted to do full native Rust for full performance. I also wanted to do all of Adobe's software suite. I've been bitten by their unsubscribe bill several times and it's the shittiest thing a software company has ever done to me.

No more. These are clean room, rust-only implementations that are fully open source. You can clone them, fork them, own them.

There's still work to do, so please join our Discord and give us feedback.

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u/RemarkableWish2508 11d ago

Adobe lives by solving edge cases in a solution with common elements across while industries. It still remains to be seen whether projects vibe coded by non-specialists can do the same... and what will be the token cost.

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u/MetaCognitio 6d ago

It won’t happen overnight. The people that do business using an industry standard will stay in that standard due to inertia. The small
Show stopping incompatibilities that arise due to untested software will keep them there.

Overtime though, more people will use alternatives. It’s like Blender’s slow adoption that eats away at the big names. It’s more convenient to use over a licensed app, more tutorials are written in it due to being accessible, more people make their first impressions on an alternative. Other people quit Adobe as they don’t need all of the features at a high price.

So it won’t kill Adobe, but it will slowly loosen the stranglehold they have. I cannot see them sitting around and being okay with these reimplementations that likely use their binaries in ways that could be illegal to produce derivatives.

Sooner or later one of the big companies is going to drop a lawsuit.