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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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