Show HN: NightCafe Creator – Create art from a text prompt using VQGAN+CLIP

Re:Show HN: NightCafe Creator – Create art from a text promp... by wraptile on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:05AM (#28083512)

My first one turned out to be pretty great!

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/70lx2Il45nK1rmcE1D...

I've been playing around with AI art generators for a while now and they are always great fun. Though it weirdly motivates to do some painting or creating of my own as if I need to compete with it. I think AI generators as inspiration tools is a very interesting use-case that I'd like to see more of!

As a side note, have any people bought any of the prints?

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Re:Show HN: NightCafe Creator – Create art from a text promp... by GusRuss89 on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:53AM (#28083766)

That's a good one!

Most of my regular users are artists who either use it for inspiration or use it to mix into their digital art. (NightCafe has been around for a while as a style transfer app).

It's rare that people buy prints. Most money comes from people buying credits.

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Re:Show HN: NightCafe Creator – Create art from a text promp... by ackbar03 on Friday August 06, 2021 @03:22AM (#28084223)

Is this profitable for you? Do the economics of it work out?

I'm somewhat involved in similar apps and I know the computation required, even for just inference, can be quite expensive.

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Re:Show HN: NightCafe Creator – Create art from a text promp... by GusRuss89 on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:35AM (#28084986)

It's not very profitable, about a 10% margin after doing a lot of work to get costs down and sales up.

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