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

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>some major problems we’ve had with it. First is that it runs primarily on your own hardware

That's not a "major problem", that is the one most important core feature that anyone who is looking for full creative freedom and who doesn't want to enter "safety" censorship and surveillance hell should be looking for.

You can run ComfyUI with as little as 4 GB VRAM, which is not that much anymore.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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...

looking into this! thanks

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

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post #21

>some major problems we’ve had with it. First is that it runs primarily on your own hardware That's not a "major problem", that is the one most important core feature that anyone who is looking for full creative freedom and who doesn't want to enter "safety" censorship and surveillance hell should be looking for. You can run ComfyUI with as little as 4 GB VRAM, which is not that much anymore.

this is true. However I would my friends and I only have Macbooks so for us we wanted something that ran on the cloud

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

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post #21

>some major problems we’ve had with it. First is that it runs primarily on your own hardware That's not a "major problem", that is the one most important core feature that anyone who is looking for full creative freedom and who doesn't want to enter "safety" censorship and surveillance hell should be looking for. You can run ComfyUI with as little as 4 GB VRAM, which is not that much anymore.

I run it on a 6 year old i5 box, no gpu, nothing. Granted, I'm fine with waiting 30 minutes for a generation, but indeed to be that's a core feature of the tool.

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

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post #21

>some major problems we’ve had with it. First is that it runs primarily on your own hardware That's not a "major problem", that is the one most important core feature that anyone who is looking for full creative freedom and who doesn't want to enter "safety" censorship and surveillance hell should be looking for. You can run ComfyUI with as little as 4 GB VRAM, which is not that much anymore.

I run it on a 6 year old i5 box, no gpu, nothing. Granted, I'm fine with waiting 30 minutes for a generation, but indeed to be that's a core feature of the tool.

What's the power consumption on that ?seems like its more expensive to run than a gpu, but if you're not doing it often i guess it's not worth upgrading.

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

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> 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

Maybe something like "Simple UI to get started. Advanced options for power users who want more control."

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

#29
Man, commenters here are... grumpy. Yes it’s true you can do diffusion on a pi, if you’re okay waiting 4 years for your 50 steps to complete lol.

I want something like this to work, and am sure someone will eventually make the “photoshop of stable diffusion.” Personally my generations use custom fine-tunes and syncing 7gb checkpoints to a remote server can be a pain.

The bigger issue for Rubberband, I think, is that Civit weights are the killer app, and all Civit needs to do to win is make their generator a little more visible. Same with Civit’s trainer. They have an easy to use pipeline to go from training images -> generations, and they seem to run it close to cost, but it doesn’t even appear in the navigation until you sign in.

That doesn’t mean they’ll win, of course. Plenty of companies screw up, and maybe it’s not worth “winning” to begin with. See also: HuggingFace, which has Spaces, but is mostly used for the free bandwidth.

Anyway, best of luck!

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

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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

Take a look at OpenArt and how they're positioning themselves. They ditched their free and hobbyist users and now they're doing workflows for business and marketing use cases. Word on the street is that they're making an absolute killing. More revenue than giants like Leonardo, which is a full on drawing and animation suite.

You'd be surprised what making workflow easy can unlock in revenue potential. Look at how they're selling it and lean into that. I'd be doing it if our product was shaped like that.

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