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

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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.

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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…

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

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For anyone wanting to try different styles of images using SD, I made a list of cheat sheets of styles a while ago https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/218e602d508e891a123929ce...

I don't play with SD anymore mainly because now i find it exhausting to keep up with the tools and tech and low prompt adherence when trying to generate something specific. It's still fun if you are happy with whatever it gives you without putting in much effort though.

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

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post #24
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

Are you saying that the torch performance with MPS support enabled didn't meet your performance expectations? Or are you using an intel macbook and/or one with a tiny amount of ram/vram?

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?

Similarly here - I clicked over and looked at the site and went first thing to find terms of use.. and nothing.

I have a couple of uses for such a thing, but perhaps you may offer one click deploy totally private use as you wish kind of thing,

I must assume a majority of people using comfyui or anything similar are going to be making stuff that is not allowed to be made on the more popular platforms.. your company may find itself quickly in the fire of many saying you should not be hosting X thing or Y thing or allowing people to do W or V.. and then there may be jurisdictions with whatever..

cloudlfare tried being a dumb pipe and espoused free speech until they did a 180..

So whtether it's investor pressure, or gov pressure or whatever it will be a thing at some point.

So also, what about export and backup options?

I would not create on another platform that can willy nilly pull the plug and leave you without your data, and the days of you pulling the plug are not far away imho.

Would use though, I hate setting this stuff up for myself, and I have a few other that can benefit from this sort of service - especially if it could be usage based at one price, and cold storage of training data at a lower price.

random thoughts.

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?

Similarly here - I clicked over and looked at the site and went first thing to find terms of use.. and nothing. I have a couple of uses for such a thing, but perhaps you may offer one click deploy totally private use as you wish kind of thing, I must assume a majority of people using comfyui or anything similar are going to be making stuff that is not allowed to be made on the more popular platforms.. your company ma…

yes definitely - thanks for the comments. We'll think about these points and get back to you later this week(via your contact in your bio)

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

#48

Very interesting product. What is the license for the images generated with your service? Can they be used as designs for a commercial game?

We're currently working on our license/terms of service. Will have an answer for you shortly

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

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post #24
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

The M1 was released in 2020, chances are by now a macbook has ARM and neural cores which are ok to do local inference

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

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The M1 was released in 2020, chances are by now a macbook has ARM and neural cores which are ok to do local inference

They’re OK, but certainly a lot slower than with an Nvidia GPU.
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