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Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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post #78

Love it! Idea: option to print "mini books". I have some kids that still color, and it would be great to keep something in my pocket to give them quick with a crayon or pen.

I was thinking of doing different sizes alright! They might not be too much cheaper, that's the only problem I can think of there.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

#102
post #78

Love it! Idea: option to print "mini books". I have some kids that still color, and it would be great to keep something in my pocket to give them quick with a crayon or pen.

I was thinking of doing different sizes alright! They might not be too much cheaper, that's the only problem I can think of there.

I'd pay for the convenience. Not sure about others!

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

#103

Nice and simple! I'm excited for all the fun micro businesses that get enabled by the new image API. Things like your coloring book, instant sticker/tshirt/swag creation, video game assets, etc. Also love the "tap 5 times for a discount" feature.

Thank you! I was happy with the discount thing alright but it's not useful for tracking referrals unfortunately.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

#104

Not sure if you're aware, but if you're interested in SEO/AEO marketing, there's very healthy monthly traffic for long-tail searches in this area. Some searches getting towards 100K per month. Love the idea! Good luck.

I don't know much about it, feel free to send an email to dara@clevercoloringbook.com

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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post #97
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't look particularly Miyazaki style to me; it's just a generic cartoon style. I think the Ghiblipocalypse has gotten people on edge.

OP confirmed that their prompt includes a directive for Ghiblification. Given that Miyazaki is known to hate GenAI I really can't condone... I mean there's nothing anyone can do about it but it's just kind of sad.

> Given that Miyazaki is known to hate GenAI I really can't condone

Not that I wouldn't similarly expect it from Miyazaki in terms of general generative art but the actual source of all the articles/memes about his quote point to a 2016 video where he's being demo'd a disturbing 3D simulation of an oily looking human figure crawling on the ground by its head while the dev explains to Miyazaki and others that 'it feels no pain so it learned to move by its head' and it could be used for horror games.

It's then that Miyazaki expresses the 'insult to life itself' quote and explains the devs have no idea what human pain is. Makes one wonder how the devs thought the reaction would be any different tbh.

Edit: reading that he clarified in an interview[1] a couple years later that his distaste was due to believing the dev was aiming at humorizing such body contortions of realistic humans which he took issue with.

[1] https://realsound.jp/tech/2018/10/post-270755.html

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

#106
post #13

For what it’s worth (and it’s probably not much), it doesn’t cost that much to commission comic book-style art from an actual artist online. When you do that, the proceeds go to an artist, not to an AI company that stole from them and a software developer who wrote a wrapper around their API.

I can't imagine how much it would cost to commission an artist to do a whole coloring book and then organize them and send them to print but it's a good point. AI is never going to be as good as a real commissioned artist, but this idea makes having something similar far more accessible to a lot of people.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

#107
post #18

Cool idea and really nice looking site. Pricing is quite high - 24 pages maximum for $23.99. There are 100-page coloring books on Amazon for $5.00, and the age group that really would be using this is not going to remember what was on the page a week from the day they did it. Maybe it can work in the nice of "adult coloring books" - I've seen some social media content where people really go crazy on coloring books, a…

Presumably you aren’t the parent of a 5-7 year-old child. I might try this manually and save some money but my kids will absolutely cherish coloring themselves, their friends, and their parents. We’re on vacation now and this is gonna be big when we get back.

You may want to give dibulo.com a try. We also launched a photo -> coloring page, but we will go one step further that you can bring it to life again.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

#109
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has zero resemblance to Miyazaki’s style. (And I say that as someone who isn’t a fan of this idea at all.)

Hard disagree. Sample #2 is totally the Miyazaki-vibe that is everywhere in OpenAI-generated comics. https://clevercoloringbook.com/samples/2_cartoon.png The cartoon owl at the top has a different vibe and would probably work for the comics as well.

After seeing this example, I think this is the elevator pitch: ”We take your personal highlights and make them as generic and impersonal as possible.”
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