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Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.

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[-] miadidi@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Why doesn’t the dev rather work on specific features sets on one existing project instead of building half baked fleet of slop.

[-] GeirGrusom@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, ArtCraft is very poorly made. It's a bunch of AI tools jumbled together and is basic at best. It also buys into the entire Tech feudalism bullshit by being a cloud service.

[-] freely1333@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago

If this came to parity with any of the billion dollar apps it’s trying to replace we would have new laws banning it somehow within a month

[-] miadidi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If it comes at parity and businesses start using it, then not only it would be banned but also the dev will be sued to hell for "infringing" their "patents" and "revenue loss" caused because of it.

[-] Jako302@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No business would ever use these due to the lice we nightmare these projects would create.

[-] miadidi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You don't know Indian small-mid businesses lol. They already pirate a lot of stuff. Adobe and Corel are very strict here—if they find out you are using an unlicensed version of their software, they send legal notices to pay a shit ton for the damages and buy the licensed one for a lock-in period before even suing. Most, if not all, give in because there is no way out of this. Yet a lot of them are willing to take this risk as the potential savings are much higher than the losses if caught.

If these businesses get a grey zone free product, they will happily switch. Big corpos will mostly not.

this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2026
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