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It's free man - you're trying to pick a fight where there is none to begin with.

Good for you my man

That's a good statement but try it - you'll agree with me

Free, fully open-source. The best there is. For anyone who wants a privacy-focused, self-hostable time-blocking daily planner.

The design taste is impeccable.

Interesting to see how Blink is approaching developer tool distribution through affiliates. The economics are notable: $100 flat commission per conversion with a 30-day cookie window, no minimum sales requirement, and monthly payouts.

This seems like a shift from traditional SaaS affiliate models that typically offer percentage-based recurring commissions. The fixed $100 suggests they're optimizing for rapid user acquisition rather than long-term affiliate relationships.

For context, Blink is an AI-powered app builder targeting developers. Curious what others think about this affiliate structure compared to recurring commission models.

A photographer recently wrote a reflection on trying an AI photo tool, comparing the moment to an “Industrial Revolution” for photography.

He raises questions about what happens when AI can generate studio-quality shots from a simple snapshot — does that make Photoshop, Lightroom, or even parts of the profession less relevant?

Curious to hear how others see the future of photography in light of tools like this.

Oh cinematic weddings would be so cool! My friends' wedding in NJ had drone shots and that was a great idea. Although I suspect it wouldn't be hard for Sora 2 / Veo 3 of the world to make.

That said, photography will probably remain a hobby for many. And people at the highest skill level will still be fine.

We need more authentic stuff hand-crafted to perfection.

That's a good historical perspective. What's different though is the profession is replaced by ONLY machines, no humans.

Even vibe coding requires human engineers to oversee otherwise there is no point. But photography is different, since the customer can bypass the producer and get the final output directly.

AI can enhance the photo quality of your existing photos, not just make stuff up.

If you had imperfect makeup/weather/pose/background/lighting or were using a cheap camera with incorrect focal setup. All of that can be turned into 10/10 photos with AI.

yes, but the thing that moves the world is the percentage.

if lets say before it was 100% done by human.

now it's just 20%.

that will drastically impact everyone's decision making.

if you were learning photography. would you still?

if you / your kid's in college trying to pick a career. what would you choose?

the information available, which includes how *most* of the world choose to get their photos / software / books made, will have a big impact on our decisions.

Yeah man, i saw that too. It's crazy how we used to hire professional photographers for full day events. Throwback to my college graduation shots.

Now it's just selfies and AI.

AI photographer packages will replace IRL photoshoots.

AI models are getting so good at creating realistic photographs with just some selfies. So why do we need human photgraphers? iPhone photos + AI seems to do the trick for most.

Thhink professional headshots, graduation photos, weddings, family portraits...

The entire photography profession is disrupted.

1Flow.ai is in-app survey platform powered by AI. It uses AI to automatically generate fully customized survey questions and even multiple choices given a business / user research goal. Such as understanding funnel drop off reasons, or why users cancel their subscriptions.

Is AI coming to take our jobs? Or is it helping us becoming more efficient? What's your take.

Agreed! Should be quick to add.

Hey that’s a really cool idea. I get those sales pitches all the time too. Hate wasting so much time checking them.

We can plug into gmail and make it happen!

This is a new AI app that automates sales outreach at scale. Given only the person's LinkedIn URL, it generates complete cold email / cold LinkedIn DM messages with hyper-personalization. The best part is that this app can bulk process 10,000s of tasks in one go, and you can simply export all those leads with cold messages already written into your email sending tool.

It's still quite early stage but I'm so amazed by the features and access to premium LinkedIn data. Its AI is like nothing I've seen before, because it can read websites and do google search without your prompt explicitly instructing it to do so.

It's scary that we're this close to AGI.

What do you think of this tool? Will it replace many jobs at your company?

Thank you for this feedback. Agree with both 1) and 2) and I've noted this down for us to improve next! Plus the email field is a good point, too - when we initially built this we didn't think of email collection use case, but now we're even using it this way ourselves LOL so it's best to build it out.

Aha that makes sense. Thanks for sharing this tip!

I've never personally used Expo to create apps, so I'm not 100% sure, but we do have RN SDK support! So I think it should work since Expo is a tool for using RN.

Thanks for reporting this! Yeah we'll fix them, poor navigation...

We are actually considering in-line, subtle feedback widgets as a next step. I am with you in that this pop-up style can be less appealing to certain users. Although by asking user for opt in / opt out initially would help, I do like the approach of more subtle, embedded feedback widgets.

Feedback like this is what makes HN great. Thank you!