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neilxm
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Comment #39225236
Yes! That's where our heads are at as well. The reality with a lot of multimodal / image proc style code is that it's never truly serverless - image manipulation in node.js is trag…
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Comment #39225214
Thanks! We'll ponder over this one :)
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Comment #39221484
YEP! If you've used blender you'll notice the parallels with shader nodes :)
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Comment #39221474
It's a combination of things. The idea is that you can build workflows that chain functionality from ai models, as well as lower level image processing tasks. For lower level tasks…
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Comment #39219283
We're working on shareable graphs and premade recipes! I actually started sharing a few on our blog - here's an example: https://blog.mlblocks.com/p/auto-generate-banner-images-for…
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Comment #39219249
Thats true. We started off with a base set of blocks but i think the real utility will come in the easy orchestration and api end point building. We're pushing in the direction of …
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Comment #39219166
We started this to solve bulk processing issues we had when building a previous eCommerce tool so I 100% know what you mean. We're adding API support soon and we'll add some exampl…
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Comment #39219068
Thank you!!
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Comment #39219055
Thanks you beat me to it :) That being said, you're not wrong. It's definitely inspired by ComfyUI. But, with much simpler abstractions, much broader utility and extensions like bu…
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Comment #39218693
To add to pj's comment - We are adding more blocks constantly. We're also considering allowing the community to push their own blocks using an open api schema.
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Comment #39218613
Oh yea I know what you mean. There are several parallels here with shader nodes for sure. We've been thinking about a voyager/agent-style approach where an agent can start to learn…
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Comment #39218509
Nice! Sharing workflows is coming up in approximately 2 sprints. We're working on 2 flavors of sharing. The first is sharing the workflow directly and letting someone copy it for t…
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Show HN: ML Blocks – Deploy multimodal AI workflows without code
Hey everyone, ML Blocks is a node-based workflow builder to create multi-modal AI workflows without writing any code. You connect blocks that call various visual models like GPT4v,…
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Show HN: Zapier-Like Automations for AI Image Processing
Hey HN! I’ve been working with AI models like Stable Diffusion and DALLE-3 for a while now and realized that building real applications with them usually requires building a multi-…
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Comment #38046868
Good ideas! Thanks! I'm definitely going to implement the style picking next
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Comment #38046863
Currently there's no way to steer it, but I'm thinking about ways I can allow steering the image gen. Maybe just showing the prompt open ai spits out so you can edit it, but I wond…
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Comment #38029173
BannerGPT is an AI agent that can auto-generate banner images for any blog post. The premise is pretty simple. You paste your article into BannerGPT, it analyzes the text and gener…
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Comment #38028245
BannerGPT is an AI agent that can auto-generate banner images for any blog post. The premise is pretty simple. You paste your article into BannerGPT, it analyzes the text and gener…
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Comment #37951258
yea true. some trade offs. i'm going to look into consolidating everything into just the nextjs piece.
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Comment #37951243
awesome ideas! the configurability and flexibility of 3D models is a huge advantage over a pure 2D approach these scenarios.
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Comment #37950797
yea for sure. i guess i'd like this to be something usable on mobile as well. but directionally you're right. there's a lot to be gained from optimizing for local compute in many a…
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Comment #37949586
Yea! Shadows on the item or shadows propogated back onto the scene