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Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters

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Re: Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters

#11
I wrote a thing, and clicked go, and had to sign in. Sigh -- fine okay.

Signed in. It sent me back and lost my prompt. Sigh -- fine okay.

Wrote it again, clicked go, and it said ran out of credits, and sent me to billing.

I can see it's a Claude-built app but this just shows the importance of UX.

Because the UX here, sucks!

Re: Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters

#14

Can you explain why would someone pay for this? The price is hidden (sneaky) but with uBlock I see it's $8 or more every month. I can buy any comic from the past 60 years at that price.

Indeed it's better to buy comics to help real artists pay their bills while their work is "democratised".

Re: Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters

#15
The only problem is that the generated comics have typos and seem to make little sense.. They’re just kind of setting up a story?

Edit: Oh, I missed the choose your adventure aspect to them, so what’s on the front page are just samples of what you can do, and how a start of a story can look like if someone had already made the choices for you? I guess I have to pay to choose outcomes myself and continue the stories.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters

#16
post #15

The only problem is that the generated comics have typos and seem to make little sense.. They’re just kind of setting up a story? Edit: Oh, I missed the choose your adventure aspect to them, so what’s on the front page are just samples of what you can do, and how a start of a story can look like if someone had already made the choices for you? I guess I have to pay to choose outcomes myself and continue the stories.

Yes the ones on the front page are the stories that have been generated with a prompt and continued by choosing what happens next. here is a demo video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNXXMbyhNeU

Re: Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters

#17
post #11

I wrote a thing, and clicked go, and had to sign in. Sigh -- fine okay. Signed in. It sent me back and lost my prompt. Sigh -- fine okay. Wrote it again, clicked go, and it said ran out of credits, and sent me to billing. I can see it's a Claude-built app but this just shows the importance of UX. Because the UX here, sucks!

Thanks for the feedback, Totally agree about the UX. I have pushed a fix and it should be live in some time.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters

#18

Clicked on one of the comics to see how the images came out and it immediately started playing audio. Auto playing media equals an instant tab closure never to return.

I have fixed this issue, should be live in some time. Thanks for the feedback

Re: Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters

#19
post #14

Can you explain why would someone pay for this? The price is hidden (sneaky) but with uBlock I see it's $8 or more every month. I can buy any comic from the past 60 years at that price.

Indeed it's better to buy comics to help real artists pay their bills while their work is "democratised".

To be honest AI comics would not ever be as good as the one from comic artists and this product isn't an alternative to the comic books in real world. This is for the ones who want to explore stories which the traditional comic book artists would probably not put out. The difference here is you get to play the director and the AI is just your companion to paint the picture.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters

#20
post #12

nice - i'd switch off the autoplay (or use latets state of play/pause) on navigation as it can be annoying for some users who dont want the audio.

Yeah got a lot of feedback around this, Fix is pushed should be live in some time
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