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The owner of a small online shop says Claude and Gemini helped him write an image workflow that goes from raw photo to finished product image, cutting dozens of hours.
A non-engineer who runs his own business and writes the software behind it used Claude and Gemini to build an image editing workflow. It takes a raw camera shot and produces a finished product image for the ecommerce store.
He says the workflow cut out dozens of hours of work, and that new features now reach production in hours or days instead of days or weeks.
This is the owner's own claim in a Hacker News comment, with no named business and no measured figures. He says the code is imperfect and lacks full test coverage. Keep original photos, and check images for color accuracy before publishing.
Paste into ChatGPT, Claude or another AI assistant and fill in the square brackets.
I sell [type of product] online and photograph them on [background]. Describe a step-by-step workflow for turning raw photos into consistent shop images: crop, background, color correction, file size and file names. Show me the plan and any scripts before I run anything on my photo library.
Source: Hacker News · May 12, 2025. Summarised in our own words; read the original for the full account.
Useful example?
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