# letmesee

> An iOS 26 camera replacement app where every photo is instantly reimagined by AI.

The premise is simple and slightly heretical: **every photo a professional studio touches gets edited.** Magazine covers, wedding albums, your friend's Instagram. The retouch is invisible because it's slow, expensive, and gatekept. AI image models broke the gate.

`letmesee` is a default-camera-replacement that runs every shot through a genAI image model the moment the shutter fires. Bring-your-own-model (Gemini Nano Banana, OpenAI gpt-image, etc.) — paste a key, pick a style, take photos that look like a studio touched them.

Like Apple's Photographic Styles, but the "style" is a `style.md` file describing a complete photographic intent — and the engine doing the work is a frontier image model, not a tone curve.

## What's in here

| Path | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| [`docs/design-spec.md`](docs/design-spec.md) | Aesthetic direction, motion language, brand voice. |
| [`docs/style-format.md`](docs/style-format.md) | The `style.md` file spec — how a style is authored. |
| [`docs/prompt-taxonomy.md`](docs/prompt-taxonomy.md) | The six axes every style scores on (aggressiveness, identity preservation, etc.). |
| [`docs/marketplace-catalog.md`](docs/marketplace-catalog.md) | The eight bundled launch styles — full spectrum from True Moment to Dreamscape. |
| [`styles/`](styles/) | The actual `style.md` files for the eight bundled styles. |
| [`mockups/index.html`](mockups/index.html) | **Open this first.** Showcase page with all six hero screens in iPhone frames. |
| [`mockups/01-viewfinder.html`](mockups/01-viewfinder.html) | Camera viewfinder with style chip. |
| [`mockups/02-transform.html`](mockups/02-transform.html) | Post-capture reveal — before/after slider. |
| [`mockups/03-marketplace.html`](mockups/03-marketplace.html) | Style marketplace browse. |
| [`mockups/04-style-detail.html`](mockups/04-style-detail.html) | One style, expanded — before/after pairs across photo types. |
| [`mockups/05-settings.html`](mockups/05-settings.html) | BYOM key entry. |
| [`mockups/06-library.html`](mockups/06-library.html) | Photo library, transformed. |

## Status

This is design + spec + working HTML mockups. The API is **mocked** (1.5s simulated delay + sample images). Real API wiring (Gemini, OpenAI) and the SwiftUI port come next.

## The bet

> Photography is already heavily AI'd. We're betting on being the ones who make it acceptable to be the default.

Some users will be weirded out. Others will love it. We are designing for the second group, and trusting that the first group eventually joins them — the way they joined them with portrait mode, with Live Photos, with Photographic Styles.