I need to tell this story because it's kind of embarrassing how long we let this problem go on. We run a small ecommerce operation and our design workflow was honestly a disaster. Every time we needed product images converted to vectors for different platforms or mockups, it was the same nightmare. Either someone on the team would spend half their day manually tracing in Illustrator, or we'd pay for yet another software license that honestly we'd use maybe twice a month. I remember the moment we decided to do something about it. Our designer had been working on tracing a batch of product images for like three hours and she just looked at me and said this is insane. And she was right. It was kinda insane. So we started building FreeSVGConverter. Took us about four months of nights and weekends but we finally got it working. It's an AI tool that takes raster images and converts them to SVG files in seconds. the kind of stuff that used to take hours. The first version was honestly pretty rough. the AI would sometimes interpret shadows weird or miss details. But we kept tweaking it and now it's at the point where we're using it daily for our own stuff. Product images, logo cleanups, design assets for different screen sizes. All that. I'm not gonna lie and say it's perfect every single time (although we've surprised ourselves just how much better it is than existing tools, especially on more complex images). But compared to what we were doing before it's night and day. easy. We went from spending probably 6 to eight hours a week on this stuff to maybe 30 minutes. The thing that surprised me most was how many other small ecommerce teams deal with the exact same problem. I mentioned it casually in a Slack group and like five people immediately asked for access. turns out paying hundreds of dollars for enterprise design software when you're bootstrapping is a pretty universal pain point. We're still figuring out where this goes. rn we're just happy it solved our internal problem. But I'm genuinely curious if other people here have dealt with this or if you've found better solutions. Are you all just paying for Adobe subscriptions and calling it a day or is there something I'm missing? Anyway that's the whole story. Built it because we were frustrated it actually works, and now we're trying to figure out if it's useful to anyone beyond us. If you've ever spent hours tracing images or winced at software renewal invoices you probably get why we did this.