The latest articles on DEV Community by CAPTD (@captd). https://dev.to/captd https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4099148%2F16b05d90-0a5f-4d3a-aebd-2472e60aab43.png https://dev.to/captd en CAPTD Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:52:52 +0000 https://dev.to/captd/ive-been-building-a-photography-content-pack-generator-solo-for-two-months-heres-the-actual-2g05 https://dev.to/captd/ive-been-building-a-photography-content-pack-generator-solo-for-two-months-heres-the-actual-2g05 <p>I'm Marco. Twenty-five years as a TV cameraman before this, no formal engineering background. About two months ago I started building CAPTD, a tool that turns one photo into a full, platform-ready content pack — caption, hashtags, alt text, a hook, and a music suggestion — for photographers who don't want to spend twenty minutes writing captions after every shoot.<br> I'm building this AI-assisted, not writing every line by hand, around a full-time job. I think that's worth saying plainly rather than pretending otherwise.<br> What's actually live right now at captd.app:</p> <p>Four workspaces — a single photo, a video clip, a full slideshow, or pure text/voice-brief marketing copy<br> Nine platforms supported, each with real character limits and tone conventions baked in, not one block of text stretched across all of them — Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn, Pinterest, X, Bluesky<br> Creator Voice — describe your tone once, it carries through every future generation<br> No signup required for the core product — the whole thing works before you ever make an account<br> A genuinely free tools section, unrelated to the paid product: exposure and depth-of-field calculators, golden hour/Milky Way timing, an AI photography assistant, shot planners<br> A 28-lesson free Academy and a growing glossary of photography terms</p> <p>Stack, if you're curious: TanStack Start, Supabase, Google Gemini, deployed on Vercel.</p> <p>What's next: a full visual redesign already in progress, a rewards/leaderboard system for the free tools, multi-language support, and real payments going live.</p> <p>I'll be posting build updates here as things ship. If you want to follow along or try it: captd.app</p> buildinpublic webdev ai showdev CAPTD Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:28:03 +0000 https://dev.to/captd/ive-been-building-a-photography-content-pack-generator-solo-for-two-months-heres-the-actual-139g https://dev.to/captd/ive-been-building-a-photography-content-pack-generator-solo-for-two-months-heres-the-actual-139g <p>I'm Marco. Twenty-five years as a TV cameraman before this, no formal engineering background. About two months ago I started building CAPTD, a tool that turns one photo into a full, platform-ready content pack — caption, hashtags, alt text, a hook, and a music suggestion — for photographers who don't want to spend twenty minutes writing captions after every shoot.<br> I'm building this AI-assisted, not writing every line by hand, around a full-time job. I think that's worth saying plainly rather than pretending otherwise.<br> What's actually live right now at captd.app:</p> <p>Four workspaces — a single photo, a video clip, a full slideshow, or pure text/voice-brief marketing copy<br> Nine platforms supported, each with real character limits and tone conventions baked in, not one block of text stretched across all of them — Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn, Pinterest, X, Bluesky<br> Creator Voice — describe your tone once, it carries through every future generation<br> No signup required for the core product — the whole thing works before you ever make an account<br> A genuinely free tools section, unrelated to the paid product: exposure and depth-of-field calculators, golden hour/Milky Way timing, an AI photography assistant, shot planners<br> A 28-lesson free Academy and a growing glossary of photography terms</p> <p>Stack, if you're curious: TanStack Start, Supabase, Google Gemini, deployed on Vercel.</p> <p>What's next: a full visual redesign already in progress, a rewards/leaderboard system for the free tools, multi-language support, and real payments going live.</p> <p>I'll be posting build updates here as things ship. If you want to follow along or try it: captd.app</p> buildinpublic webdev ai showdev