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Show HN: ColoringsAI – Custom Coloring Pages from Ideas (My Daughter's Idea)

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Post by bakkerinho » Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 9:23 AM UTC

I created ColoringsAI for my 4-year-old daughter, who loves coloring but sometimes gets bored with the same old designs.

With this app, you can type in any idea—like “a unicorn in a magical forest” or “a rocket flying through space”—and instantly turn it into a printable coloring page. It’s been a hit in our house, and now I’m sharing it with everyone!

Check it out at ColoringsAI and let me know what you think. I’d love to hear your feedback or any fun ideas you come up with!

Show HN: ColoringsAI – Custom Coloring Pages from Ideas (My Daughter's Idea)
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Post by mkl » Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 2:02 PM UTC

I tried "stegosaurus with giant lollipop", but I got a tyrannosaurus with three stegosaurus legs and stegosaurus spines but no thagomizer and no lollipop: https://imgur.com/a/1EPUm3F. When I tried again it seemed to have frozen. The third try gave me the second tyrannosaurus mutant hybrid, but I did get a giant lollipop.

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Post by vunderba » Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 5:13 PM UTC

There's a couple of these out there already - but the lack of a sign-up requirement is a nice touch.

https://www.coloringbook.ai

https://colorbliss.com

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Post by xnx » Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 5:23 PM UTC

Neat. What model are you using? https://huggingface.co/artificialguybr/ColoringBookRedmond-V... or one of these https://civitai.com/tag/coloring%20book ?

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Post by shireboy » Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 5:39 PM UTC

What a brilliant idea!

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Post by giarc » Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

Any issue with copyright? Lots of brands named right in your copy.

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Post by shireboy » Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 5:45 PM UTC

vunderba wrote: post #3

There's a couple of these out there already - but the lack of a sign-up requirement is a nice touch. https://www.coloringbook.ai https://colorbliss.com

I agree, no-signup is really nice, esp. since I'm hesitant to have my kids signup for things, and of course free is nice. That said, if you do want or need to monetize, one idea would be to slap a donation link like 'Buy me a beer' on it. I could see some people being willing to send a few bucks to your daughters' college fund in exchange for infinite coloring pages for their kids. Also, it probably makes sense to cache if you're not already - once someone generates "Paw Patrol vs Scooby Doo", put it in CDN and serve up from there instead of generating again.