Alessandro Di Vito

Alessandro Di Vito

Greengrocer by day | Building Luminens

About

11 years ago, I was an aspiring pro photographer (international contests, Fiat Brazil publications). When my son was born, I put my camera away to run my family’s grocery business. Working in my spare time inside an old grocery cold storage room, I moved past simple vibe-coding, and learned software architecture from scratch. Now, I’m the founder of Luminens: a 16-bit browser RAW photo editor powered by WebGPU and libraw-wasm, capable of processing 200MB Hasselblad files smoothly where other browser tools crash.

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Hi PH! Greengrocer by day, building a WebGPU RAW photo editor by night

Hi everyone!

My name is Alessandro Di Vito, and I m thrilled to finally join the Product Hunt community. I wanted to share a quick introduction and a story about putting a dream on hold, and then reclaiming it a decade later through technology.

Eleven years ago, I was an aspiring professional photographer. My career was just starting to take off with international contest placements and publication offers (including one for Fiat Brazil). But that same year, my first son was born. I needed immediate stability for my family, so I made the hard choice to put my camera away and take over my family's local grocery business.

Mona Kohlhaas

3d ago

I tried to vibe-code my way to a SaaS… and failed

Last summer, the idea for my SaaS, Xolora, started to take shape. Around the same time, the concept of vibe coding was blowing up. As a non-technical founder, it sounded like a dream come true. No coding experience? No problem, just let AI handle it.

The beginning was incredibly promising. Using Emergent made me feel unstoppable. I was seeing my idea come to life.

Nika

8d ago

How can workers secure their jobs in the AI era and when everything is "overtech"?

Yesterday s discussion about who is more likely to be replaced (white-collar vs. blue-collar workers) raised another question for me.

So I m asking:

What do we need to do to keep our jobs in the age of AI and robotisation?

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