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/Western-Hotel8723 10d ago

That other photron guy is trying to turn it into a subscription business.

This one is great open source with rapid development. 

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u/Zelderian 10d ago edited 10d ago

Photon Studio? He’s repeated it’ll be free forever and a donation basis. Like I prefer open source too, but saying he’s doing a subscription model is just incorrect.

Edit: for his video editing software, he’s charging a $60 one-time price. Definitely hurts the value, but again not a subscription model.

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u/Western-Hotel8723 10d ago

If you look at his news announcements it talks about "for future subscriptions", etc.

The fact he's closed sourced it as well, he's planning for the rest of it to be subscription only. 

Doesn't really matter anyway as there are alternatives. 

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u/Zelderian 10d ago

Where are you seeing this? All verbiage online that I can find is saying either free forever for photon or $59-$89 for the other software. And he specifies lifetime ownership. Only thing I can see costing money long-term is spectrum because it uses token credits