[dceddia]

> applying Adobe Lightroom presets (image filters) on many images quickly and cheaply

This sounds to me like a thing people might pay for.

But I would (strongly) guess most photographers don’t know what an “API” is or why they’d want to pay monthly for one, or how to wire up “curl” to it somehow. People who know that stuff will cobble this together in a script.

As a simple desktop app I could see a utility like this doing well in that audience though. $29-49 one time payment, apply all the presets you want, save lots of time.

[jrhizor]

That’s why I found the search volume interesting. It seemed like there was more overlap between developers and photography tools than I thought.

[krisoft]

But… this is a built in feature of Adobe Lightroom.[2] And it is not even some hard to find feature. I learned about it in the first tutorial of Adobe Lightroom i ever watched.

1: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/batch-edi...

[dceddia]

Hah, this is a perfect example of why it's important to build products for an audience you know and understand. (I've barely used Lightroom and clearly I'm not part of this audience)

On the other point though, there's a case to be made for building products to make things easier/better/more discoverable/etc even if when they already exist. One example: there are is ton of screen recorder software out there despite the fact that QuickTime on Mac can record the screen.