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

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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.

60-70 W? Let's say 40 Wh per generation. Not so nice, but that works out to ~ 0.8 cents. So for a few generations a day, I can probably manage...

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

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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…

Thanks Ed! really appreciate the feedback and support.

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

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A hosted version of image generation could be useful to me because my hardware isn't very good. However, one of the main reasons to use local generation in the first place is privacy and anti-censorship. I don't see a TOS on your service. How does it handle those cases?

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

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To be very clear, I never said open-source is a problem.

In fact, Rubbrband started as an open-source project.

Each member of our team are ML researchers who have committed tens of thousands of lines to open-source.

I think you're conflating open-source with local installations. Our founding team was not fan of the interfaces that a lot of these projects have for our use cases. Not to mention, our hardware just doesn't run them.

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

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A hosted version of image generation could be useful to me because my hardware isn't very good. However, one of the main reasons to use local generation in the first place is privacy and anti-censorship. I don't see a TOS on your service. How does it handle those cases?

This is a work-in-progress, will get back you

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.

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.

I have a similar setup: I'm running a Discord bot for family and friends that can do image generation. It's a 6-core AMD EPYC VPS with no GPU.

By using a SD 1.5 Latent Consistency Model (LCM) it generates an image in 3 steps or fewer. It takes about 30 seconds to generate a 512x512 image on that machine.

https://civitai.com/models/4384?modelVersionId=252914

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

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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 the…

Thanks this is very helpful
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