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Comment · 3 months ago
Same happened in Italy, so all betting sites turned into "news" site so you would have teams being spored by "betting_company_name news". Useless. There's a proposal to be back to previous type of sponsorship.
Comment · 5 months ago
My interior design wife tells me that exist many kitchen resellers make a living out of it. She uses my tool, that makes me happy.
Comment · 9 months ago
https://blog.ncase.me/on-depression/ - I think this is explained in a better and simpler way
Comment · 9 months ago
This is intentionally much narrower: no custom requests, no creative edits. It only does technical corrections that photographers already apply (lighting, white balance, perspective, sharpness).

Think more automated Lightroom than crowdsourced Photoshop.

Comment · 9 months ago
I don’t see it as lying any more than adjusting exposure or white balance on a camera does.

It doesn’t add or remove anything from the scene, it just fixes bad lighting, color cast, perspective, and sharpness, basically what any decent photographer already does in post.

If anything, it helps photos reflect how the place actually looks in real life instead of dark, crooked, yellowish snapshots.

Comment · 9 months ago
Totally get the concern, and I actually agree on the “Instagram-ification” problem.

What ProntoPic does is basically what a professional real estate photographer already does in Lightroom: fix lighting, white balance, perspective, and sharpness. No adding pools, no changing furniture, no fake sunsets, no staging things that aren’t there. My girlfriend is an interior designer, so I see firsthand how much effort goes into making spaces look 100% accurate but well presented.

The goal isn’t to misrepresent reality, just to make photos look like they were taken properly.

In practice this mostly helps small hosts and agents who don’t have the budget or time for professional shoots. Right now they’re uploading dark, crooked, yellowish photos that actively hurt bookings (like the ones in the hp, real examples).

I guess I need to make it clearer in the site. Thank you for the feedback!

Comment · 9 months ago

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