GusRuss89

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NightCafe Adds Clip-Guided Diffusion(twitter.com)
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VQGAN+CLIP Experiment: Comparing 100 keyword modifiers with the same base prompt(creator.nightcafe.studio)
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
I too run an AI Art Generator based on VQGAN+CLIP - https://creator.nightcafe.studio/text-to-image-art NightCafe has a feed of artworks, and I too was getting a lot of NSFW or very distasteful prompts. I just used an npm pa
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
Yeah we do use a print on demand service, and the main reason we use Shopify at all is because the printer (Printful) has a good Shopify app that handles all the product syncing and fulfillment automatically.
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
Shopify lets you choose which payment options you'll let customers check out with. Examples are Stripe, PayPal, Shopify Payments, Google Pay, etc. A Shopify account is enough to get started, you won't need to dabble with any APIs.
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
I basically use the API to create a checkout specific to the user's order, then listen to the webhook to fulfill the credits. Gateways are Shopify and PayPal. Shopify payments are in my bank account in a couple of days.
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
It's not very profitable, about a 10% margin after doing a lot of work to get costs down and sales up.
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
Ran it a bit longer for you - https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/OAG7LUkRVNHunrsiGD...
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
Yeah you can still buy prints but they're not manually retouched. You'll get product mockups and a buy option for your first 5 creations.
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
Yeah it would, but aside from the cost there are other benefits to cloud computation. It can be done in the background (i.e. it's ok to close your tab) and you can run multiple at once. Style transfer on NightCafe has a bulk-create mod
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
That one turned out well!
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
Yes I do, it's a bit of a hangover from the original business model of buying prints. Stripe would potentially be better for credits.
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
That's a good one! Most of my regular users are artists who either use it for inspiration or use it to mix into their digital art. (NightCafe has been around for a while as a style transfer app). It's rare that people buy prints.
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
It's not, but I can see why the "Graffiti sunset" would make you think that. It does seem to be two different images combined. I won't claim to have a good knowledge of the inner workings, but basically CLIP will give a
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
It doesn't support that yet, but it will soon. I will build an interface for it rather than a prompt syntax. My target audience is a bit less technical than the average Google Colab user.
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
The Colab notebooks actually have a "target image" parameter. I haven't added it to NightCafe Creator yet, and haven't even experimented much with it on Colab, but it's definitely on my to-do list. However, adding k
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
I ran it a bit longer for you - https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/2MGvqi6ZBZ3mZSFB66...
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
Yep, NightCafe has struggled for years with the expense of running algorithms on GPUs. It started out free, but as soon as you start to get any kind of volume, costs balloon. I almost gave up on NightCafe when I was trying to make money fro
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
Interesting. For me it's worked out well, but it would be worth doing a proper comparison. I'll add that to my to-do list.
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
You're right, adding modifier keywords like "impasto" or "cubist" have a big effect. There are also some powerful community-discovered keywords that have a huge impact on your results, like "Trending on Artstat
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
I use Coreweave Cloud for NightCafe Creator (essentially the same service as you, but more mature). Check it out.
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
I've been running an AI Art Generator for a few years called NightCafe Creator and we do most of what you suggested here. We run on a managed Kubernetes provider called Coreweave Cloud, that provides nodes with good GPUs for a good pri
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
Thanks
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
I hadn't seen either of these. Thanks! Looks like they're both new apps, so they've done well to get everything up and running so quickly! I already had a lot of the groundwork laid for NightCafe Creator, so it was much easie
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
I've been working on NightCafe for a few years now and have submitted to Show HN in the past, but since VQGAN+CLIP is a new technology and, to my knowledge, no-one else has built an app around it yet, I thought I'd submit again! A
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Show HN: NightCafe Creator – Create art from a text prompt using VQGAN+CLIP(creator.nightcafe.studio)
39 points by GusRuss89 5y ago|43 comments
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by GusRuss89 5y ago
I've been using this technique in production on my app NightCafe Creator[1] for 9+ months with great success, so I decided to turn it into a package. It's far easier to integrate than the current go-to virtualization options, whic
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React list virtualisation in 46 lines using IntersectionObserver(github.com)
1 points by GusRuss89 5y ago|1 comments
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by GusRuss89 6y ago
I'm in the same space as the founder of NightCafe Creator [1]. It's been running at a (substantial) loss for the last year until September which was my first break even month. I'm hoping to turn it around and have made great
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by GusRuss89 7y ago
#4 is now implemented. Thanks again for the suggestion.

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