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Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by vikmex »

bambax wrote: post #57

That's cool. Can you talk a little about the tech: front end, back end, and API (Kling, apparently)?

Hi, Frontend is built using React and for the backend I created a python flask server that runs on Google Cloud, and I use Firebase for database, authentication etc. The backend handles the API calls to OpenAI for image analysis, and KlingAI is used for image-to-video. Not using the KlingAPI directly though as this is too expensive for me to use in a hobby project, instead using PiAPI.

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by qwertox »

I wish I had kids in order to see them laugh when they could see their drawings come to life.

One point of critique: Simple, Transparent Pricing -> Currency is tokens. Transparent would be: Currency is animations". Even if 1 token == 1 animation, it gives the feeling as if this would be changed in the future, like 2 tokens == 1 super-animation, which breaks the "simple and transparent".

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by dsmurrell »

vikmex wrote: post #7
j_french wrote: post #5

Looks interesting, but it would be nice to be able to try it out (once even) without subscribing. The one token that seems to be available when you create an account disappears when you try to create an animation

Hi, sorry for your troubles. It should be possible to try for free, looks like I have a bug after you submit the drawing, but it should still be visible under "History"

I'm getting the same. Free plan 0 tokens. New account.

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by solardev »

The free plan still doesn't work. I never submitted anything. Was login gated, then forced to sign up with Google, then brought to the dashboard with 0/0 tokens, no way to submit anything, and nothing in the history.

Too bad. Wanted to show this off to a nephew.

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by FollowingTheDao »

I do not like this at all. Why? What is the need for this? How is using even the most minimal amount of energy and computing time worth making a child feel like his drawing alone is not enough? Something that turns what was uniquely his/hers to when is not theirs?

Can we not just share time with our children without the constant push of a third person (tech) getting in the middle of our relationship?

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