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Re: Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation

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Post by everforward »

schopra909 wrote: post #3

The prompting feature looks great — excited to try this out.

That is available in regular ComfyUI, though theirs does look very easy to use.

The neatest prompting tool idea I saw was one that used an LLM to do prompt refinement for the image, though the implementation I found was more antagonistic than helpful. It garbled my prompts into near-synonyms, giving me a basically equally crappy prompt but for a very different image.

The varied prompts are very neat too, where you give it a template string and a list of options to interpolate and it generates an image for each combo or random combos or etc. Very nice when you want to see the same image with different moods, lighting, backgrounds, etc.

Re: Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation

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Post by jrmylee »

BoredPositron wrote: post #5

What's the difference between your offering and the plethora of others? [1] Do you offer all checkpoints and LoRas even those who are not free to use in generation services or the IP-adapters with insightface as requirements? Rather fishy tbh. Also offering workflows from your team that infringe on copyrights from the mouse is a bold move. [1] https://openart.ai/ https://comfyworkflows.com/ https://comfy.icu https://…

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 this under good faith that they have permission to use these models.

We also have face IP-adapter nodes in our app!

I would say there are a lot of more minor UX differences about our app than other offerings. One particular favorite of mine is the ability to switch between the Node Editor screen and the Playground screen using cmd+p.

We built this feature mainly bc the node editor isn't great for generating images, but it's awesome for dialing in the exact aesthetic you want with different nodes/settings. We built the Playground screen for generating images once you have a workflow you like.

Re: Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation

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Post by BoredPositron »

jrmylee wrote: post #12
BoredPositron wrote: post #5

What's the difference between your offering and the plethora of others? [1] Do you offer all checkpoints and LoRas even those who are not free to use in generation services or the IP-adapters with insightface as requirements? Rather fishy tbh. Also offering workflows from your team that infringe on copyrights from the mouse is a bold move. [1] https://openart.ai/ https://comfyworkflows.com/ https://comfy.icu https://…

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 this under good faith that they have permission to use these models. We also have face IP-adapter nodes in our app! I would say there are a lot of more minor UX differences about our app than other offe…

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Re: Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation

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Post by jrmylee »

BoredPositron wrote: post #13
jrmylee wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 this under good faith that they have permission to use these models. We also have face IP-adapter nodes in our app! I would say there are a lot of more minor UX differences about our app than other offe…

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> So you are just telling us you are infringing on copyrights because nobody else does?

could you elaborate on this?

Re: Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation

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Post by jrmylee »

kipukun wrote: post #14

Looking at your YC history, Rubbrband was initially meant to be "a way to train open-source Machine Learning models in just one line of code." I'm curious what this initial offering was and why you pivoted.

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.

Re: Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation

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Post by BoredPositron »

jrmylee wrote: post #15
BoredPositron wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> So you are just telling us you are infringing on copyrights because nobody else does? could you elaborate on this?

No you will figure it out sooner or later :)

As a hint, three of the base checkpoints you are featuring are not for use in generation services...

Re: Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation

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Post by pizzafeelsright »

kipukun wrote: post #14

Looking at your YC history, Rubbrband was initially meant to be "a way to train open-source Machine Learning models in just one line of code." I'm curious what this initial offering was and why you pivoted.

Maybe they're using the usage to train?

Maybe the humans have been trained by AI to give AI a job?

Maybe the pivot was "gotta build something"

Imagine the controls on one line of code and how long is that line?

Re: Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation

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Post by bozhark »

pizzafeelsright wrote: post #18
kipukun wrote: post #14

Looking at your YC history, Rubbrband was initially meant to be "a way to train open-source Machine Learning models in just one line of code." I'm curious what this initial offering was and why you pivoted.

Maybe they're using the usage to train? Maybe the humans have been trained by AI to give AI a job? Maybe the pivot was "gotta build something" Imagine the controls on one line of code and how long is that line?

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Re: Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation

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Post by rizky05 »

jrmylee wrote: post #9
yunohn wrote: post #7

> The most controllable way Probably worth reworking this tagline, especially given your goal is to reduce the complexity of ComfyUI. Instead this makes it sound like it’ll have lots of settings or something.

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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