Kuba “Pirozek” Ludwig: photographer from Brno, Czech Republic, CTO by day, and the one person who builds and runs everything you see here. The nickname? I really love pierogi. That’s it. That’s the whole story. :-D
“Portraits with a creative style” is the polite version. In practice it means UV-reactive paint, colorful gels, fog machines, practical effects, strange filters and other shenanigans. I’m a huge UV photography ambassador together with my friends from @devil_wears_neon. I shoot event reportage and a ton of experimental sessions with cosplayers and models brave enough to stand in the fog while I figure out what some new filter actually does.
Photography doesn’t pay my bills, and I want to keep it that way. It’s the creative outlet next to my day job, which means I never have to shoot anything that bores me. It stays fun.
Every shoot above started life as a moodboard. For years I paid for the big-name tool and kept bumping into the same walls: boards that wouldn’t open at the location where I actually needed them, a clipper that fought me, no way to plug in the AI tools I use every day. At some point the engineer in me snapped. Cobalt is the result.
So after all the carefully crafted marketing claims on the rest of this site, here’s the honest version: there is no team, no office, no investors and no growth plan. The goal was never to build a corporation that profits off you. The goal is for Cobalt to pay for its own disk space and servers, so I can keep working on a product I genuinely love using. And the things that drove me crazy on other platforms are exactly the things I built first: a web clipper that just works, boards that open offline at the shoot, MCP so Claude can build boards with you.
The free plan has no card, no commitment and no sales emails. If Cobalt isn’t for you, you’ve lost ten minutes. But if you do try it, hit the feedback button inside the app and tell me what’s broken, confusing or missing. Every message lands directly with me, and I read all of them, usually embarrassingly fast. That button is honestly my favorite feature in the whole product.
I don’t take paid commissions. I take projects that spark something: an idea that stirs up an emotion and won’t let go, where everyone shows up because they want to make the thing, and we push on it together until it’s something we’re all proud of. Got one of those? My DMs are open.
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Cobalt is invite-only today: request access, poke around the free plan, and press that feedback button. I’ll be genuinely thrilled you did.