jrmylee

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   by jrmylee 2y ago

   We're currently working on our license/terms of service. Will have an answer for you shortly
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   by jrmylee 2y ago

   yes definitely - thanks for the comments. We'll think about these points and get back to you later this week(via your contact in your bio)
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   by jrmylee 2y ago

   Thanks this is very helpful
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   by jrmylee 2y ago

   This is a work-in-progress, will get back you
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   by jrmylee 2y ago

   To be very clear, I never said open-source is a problem. In fact, Rubbrband started as an open-source project. Each member of our team are ML researchers who have committed tens of thousands of lines to open-source. I think you're conf
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   by jrmylee 2y ago

   Thanks Ed! really appreciate the feedback and support.
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   by jrmylee 2y ago

   this is true. However I would my friends and I only have Macbooks so for us we wanted something that ran on the cloud
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   by jrmylee 2y ago

   looking into this! thanks
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   by jrmylee 2y ago

   yeah we went through a few pivots actually - Rubbrband was initially a mobile app for musicians. It would listen to your practice sessions and give feedback. We pivoted out of this primarily because of issues with the technology and market.
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    by jrmylee 2y ago

    > So you are just telling us you are infringing on copyrights because nobody else does? could you elaborate on this?
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    by jrmylee 2y ago

    We don't offer any non-free-to-use checkpoints/LORAs on the platform out-of-the-box. If you wanted to import a model/lora to your own account from a CivitAI link you can do so, but we're at this point letting users do th
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    by jrmylee 2y ago

    appreciate it! would love to hear your thoughts after using it
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    by jrmylee 2y ago

    gotcha thanks. any suggestions there? our goal is to have more levers than something like Midjourney, but without the complexity of comfy. Hard to convey this in a tagline lol
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    by jrmylee 2y ago

    thanks! We're getting a ton of traffic right now and having some issues scaling... looking into this
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    Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation

    61 points by jrmylee 2y ago|43 comments
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    this looks amazing. Particularly hopeful/interested if this could be used for wildfire prevention. Great work!
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    appreciate it :)
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    There's a few companies that provide APIs for image-gen. Personally I've been using the Kandinsky model off Replicate. It's really high quality, I'd recommend it: https://replicate.com/ai-forever/kan
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    thanks, good luck with your startup as well!
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    haha I thought this was a funny example to use. On second thought we'll replace it with something better!
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    Yeah it's a great q The way we think about it is that we're building a product for organizations in scaling mode, and they have deep needs on the product-side. Flexibility on filtering, different client-libraries, a clean observab
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    actually very cool to me that you remember these pivots. From the inside these pivots were about solving problems we faced with our previous idea. We mainly pivoted either because we discovered the market wasn't great, or we didn'
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    It's something we think about for sure We think that image-gen models are lagging behind LLMs by about a year, so the problems that these models will have should look quite different in the future. It'll require us to be adaptable
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    The short answer to this is to build evaluators for imperfections that our customers see as most pressing. We have to balance that with our view of what we think will still be a problem in the future, as image generation models get better.
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    Thanks will fix this
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    Launch HN: Rubbrband (YC W23) – Deformity detection for AI-generated images

    104 points by jrmylee 3y ago|81 comments
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    A healthy mix of both at this point, I would say this problem is more of a problem of enterprise since it occurs at scale.
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    Yeah I think it's a great idea! Right now because the models are so finnicky changing the seed often does lead to an image with desirable qualities(ie: good hands) so this makes sense. I do think over time the feedback loops will look
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    Hm that's true. We're working on ways to evaluate if an image looks "off" - but its a hard problem because a lot of it is subjective
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    by jrmylee 3y ago

    Yes it is. That caption is indeed confusing - pushed a fix!