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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…

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 an…

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 ge…

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 …

It's not very profitable, about a 10% margin after doing a lot of work to get costs down and sales up.

Ran it a bit longer for you - https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/OAG7LUkRVNHunrsiGD...

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.

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 …

That one turned out well!

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.

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…

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 w…

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 Cola…

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 …

I ran it a bit longer for you - https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/2MGvqi6ZBZ3mZSFB66...

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 alm…

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.

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 resu…

I use Coreweave Cloud for NightCafe Creator (essentially the same service as you, but more mature). Check it out.

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 C…

Thanks

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 lai…

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 a…