Photopea

Photopea: free browser Photoshop clone doing ~$1M/year on one ad

Photopea is a free, in-browser clone of Photoshop built by one person who chipped away until it replicated the full UI. Monetized by a single banner ad, Shaan says it does about $1M/year, and pitches cloning the model for the rest of the Adobe suite.

“It's a free version of Photoshop that has cloned every feature of Photoshop pretty much. It's like, uh, it's the exact UI of Photoshop, which is crazy because Photoshop is such a complicated piece of software to build. And this guy just chipped away, just chipped away, just kept chipping away and basically built Photopea.”

Steal thisBuild a free browser clone of an expensive desktop tool with millions of users; do it across the whole Adobe suite.