Congrats on the launch, @art_chang and team.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here: do we really need another photo editing app? VSCO, Darkroom, and Manual are just a few "power user" photo-editing apps. Additionally, how does this become a billion dollar company? Very curious how you answered these questions in your YC interview. 😄
@rrhoover Hey Ryan, really great question. There are a lot of photo editing apps out there, and they've been good.
I'm a big fan of those other apps, like VSCO, Darkroom, and Manual. They're really well made and created by talented people who know photography.
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There's honestly so much they can do to expand this & different types of business models they can have, especially considering how many photographers spend thousands and tens of thousands per year on photo-related things!
Literally can't wait to see where this goes <3
@rrhoover@art_chang Just wanted to add some perspective from the design side!
The general approach to photo editing thus far has been a digitized version of old film developing processes. What that means is lots of advanced knobs and dials. But that's a very specialized thing to become good at.
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