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

Re:Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for ima... by elpocko on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:10AM (#40800944)

>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 ima... by isoprophlex on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:23AM (#40801096)

I run it on a 6 year old i5 box, no gpu, nothing. Granted, I'm fine with waiting 30 minutes for a generation, but indeed to be that's a core feature of the tool.

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Re:Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for ima... by lawlessone on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:50AM (#40801388)

What's the power consumption on that ?seems like its more expensive to run than a gpu, but if you're not doing it often i guess it's not worth upgrading.

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Re:Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for ima... by isoprophlex on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @12:49PM (#40801944)

60-70 W? Let's say 40 Wh per generation. Not so nice, but that works out to ~ 0.8 cents. So for a few generations a day, I can probably manage...

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Re:Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for ima... by elpocko on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @02:32PM (#40803003)

I have a similar setup: I'm running a Discord bot for family and friends that can do image generation. It's a 6-core AMD EPYC VPS with no GPU.

By using a SD 1.5 Latent Consistency Model (LCM) it generates an image in 3 steps or fewer. It takes about 30 seconds to generate a 512x512 image on that machine.

https://civitai.com/models/4384?modelVersionId=252914

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Re:Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for ima... by jrmylee on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:21AM (#40801068)

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

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Re:Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for ima... by spmurrayzzz on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @03:11PM (#40803428)

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?

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Re:Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for ima... by jokethrowaway on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @06:28PM (#40805312)

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

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Re:Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for ima... by AuryGlenz on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:24PM (#40806625)

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

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Re:Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for ima... by nox101 on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:08PM (#40812054)

Modern MacBooks are great at this stuff since they have unified memory and the GPU can use all of it

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