Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers

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55 points·ahmetomer··9 comments

Would be interesting to see this grow more as a Unix-style toolkit rather than trying to become Lightroom in a terminal.

I'm currently trying to develop it based on my personal needs for the whole workflow and processes that come after doing a photo shoot. I definitely don't intend to position it as a Lightroom alternative in the terminal. Happy to hear suggestions!

I think that's the most powerful use case of AI for me, the possibility to build pretty polished tools for exactly my use case.

I might push them on GitHub but don't really expect anyone to use them or contribute. Just recently I've built a small layer on top of beets (The music library organizer) to improve some of my workflows (https://github.com/dewey/beets-importer), others might have the same use case but they might as well just generate their own tool for exactly what they need.

Yes, personalised software is a very useful field. Years ago, it was: is there an app for that? Now that's no longer the bottleneck, and you can make an app as individual as you like. That also means that selling apps gets more and more difficult, because everyone can build her or his own. Or will the AI agent make apps generally redundant? There will probably still be a stable core for databases, payments, and authentication – services with an API plus data. The winners will be those who own something an agent needs to call.

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