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I am a solo dev working on a creative content creation app to leverage the latest developments in AI. Demoing even the v1 of stable diffusion to the non-techni
by LASR 4y ago
I am a solo dev working on a creative content creation app to leverage the latest developments in AI.
Demoing even the v1 of stable diffusion to the non-technical general users blows them away completely.
Now that v2 is here, it’s clear we’re not able to keep pace in developing products to take advantage of it.
The general public still is blown away by autosuggest in mobile OS keyboards. Very few really know how far AI tech has evolved.
Huge market opportunity for folks wanting to ride the wave here.
This is exciting for me personally, since I can keep plugging in newer and better versions of these models into my app and it becomes better.
Even some of the tech folks I demo my app to, are simply amazed how I can manage to do this solo.
- jnrk 4y ago> The general public still is blown away by autosuggest in mobile OS keyboards. And it's still not available in my language on iOS... :( (Norwegian)
- ksec 4y agoLast time we had people in the field of AI writing on HN expecting another AI Winter. I thought all the improvement we have now, and we might get in the future like Stable Diffusion 3.0 and possibly many others, while not L5 Self Driving Car or General AI, has yet to be fully used outside of Tech community, or even in Tech itself. The long tail of distribution and positive feedback loop will sustain its development for another 10 years.
- searchableguy 4y agoWhat are you building?
- KidComputer 4y ago
- wfme 4y agoThis comment pretty clearly breaks the commenting guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
- KidComputer 4y agono
- hackernewds 4y agoThis is unnecessarily presumptive and targeted, offering no practical value
- LASR 4y agoIt started as an AI-powered MS paint for my son. But after demoing it to a few coworkers, it morphed into a bit more than that. Now it’s more of a storybook creator that young kids can use to generate their own stories. Not looking to monetize at all. But inference is expensive. So might have something to cover costs. Some backstory: When I was growing up in the early 90s, my dad took me into his office over the weekends when he was doing some overtime paperwork. I would be on his IBM Windows 3.1 workstation. He didn’t have any games on his work computer, so I would spend the entire day “playing” with MS Paint. I couldn’t read yet (3-4 years old), but I was able to figure it out. We didn’t have a computer at home. But seeing how I was so good at it, my parents bought one. I eventually got into coding etc. All of this defined who I am today. So I wanted to recreate some of this magic, for my own son. He’s 3 months old, so not quite the right age. But I have some free time on parental leave. So why not. Might be useful for parents with 3-5 year olds.
- ericd 4y agoI have some young kids, would love to try this out with them if you’re sharing.
- stymaar 4y agoSame here! (And I also remember playing with MS paint on my dad's work computer)
- M4v3R 4y agoAs a father of a 1.5 year old girl this sounds incredibly awesome and I'm hoping you will release it somehow, looking forward to your Show HN post!
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- momojo 4y agoI'm getting Scribblenauts vibes in a good way.
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- malermeister 4y agoWhat kind of stuff does your app do that blows people away?
- butMebbe 4y agoWraps an ML model that blows people away in opinionated UX
- kennyloginz 4y agoThat’s a little vague, so forgive me if I’m assuming too far. You are making changes to a products UX based on graphical inference? I could see a decent business supporting the logic problems a UX designed from AI graphics would introduce ;)
- mberning 4y agoI don’t know anybody that is blown away by keyboard auto suggest. It’s wrong as often as it is right. Not saying it isn’t useful, but let’s not oversell it.
- SkyPuncher 4y agoLol. Especially the AI version of keyboard auto suggest. Let's take a deterministic algorithm that predictably corrects your typos and build it on AI. It will offer you no benefits, but it will completely destroy the utility since it will never work predictably or accurately.
- FPGAhacker 4y agoAuto correct and auto suggest are related but different things. Suggest puts up options for the next word.
- SkyPuncher 4y agoMy comment would remain exactly the same for auto-correct. They are essentially the same thing, just pre and post typing. They both serve the same purpose of helping the user quickly and accurately communicate on a cell phone. Like auto-suggest, I rely on auto-correct to fix things that I know I commonly mistype. When it doesn't work predictably, it's useless.
- hackernewds 4y agoStrongly believe selection bias among the folks you're getting this impression from. The avg user is not our circle.
- LASR 4y agoThis is exactly it. Honestly I was quite surprised at how regular people are impressed by this tech. I was also surprised by how little regular people are aware of this tech even existing. We, on hackernews, on a thread about Stable Diffusion, are of course not too unimpressed. But that’s not the vast majority of people.
- monero-xmr 4y agoThere just isn’t a lot of market opportunities where being right 99% of the time is good enough. If you are operating at scale and 1/100 decisions are wrong, the outcome is poor and often highly off-putting to users. It’s possible this time is different, but people at my company were entertained by DALLE for all of 5 minutes before no one ever mentioned it again. The value proposition is simply low.
- dougmwne 4y agoAre you kidding? Many times corporate decisions are being made effectively at random. Thinking that the average company operates with a 999 batting average is a total fantasy.
- xnyan 4y agoWhen our c suite decides on an ad campaign and tells our artists to draw normal humans, those people have 3 legs or upside down teeth exactly 0% of the time. Humans have many many limitations, but with every model I’ve tested there’s a set of errors that would virtually never be made by any human.
- wizeman 4y ago> with every model I’ve tested there’s a set of errors that would virtually never be made by any human I guess you've never seen my drawings...
- vintermann 4y agoI think it's interesting that drawing too many fingers is a mistake kids make, too, although with less photorealism otherwise. I guess there's a reason all thosr famous artists drew hundreds of hands as practice as well.
- fragmede 4y agoI agree. Cars break down and crash, they'll never replace horses.
- tamersalama 4y agoI agree that this a big wave, but I'm still struggling to find commercial (read: large organizations) applications.
- ftufek 4y agoI suspect those applications will come from specializing the model. For example, there's people that have avatar generators or automated ad creatives. A cool application I've been toying with is generating icons.
- subbu 4y agoTrain the model with https://lucide.dev/ https://lucide.dev/ and ask it to generate a few more?
- wodenokoto 4y agoBuilt a plugin for Power Point and sell it corporate wide.
- abeppu 4y agoDoes it actually make anything in the corporate world better to use generated images in slides? When coworkers use stock photos which were presumably made by humans operating actual cameras, I don't think it's clear that their presentation is actually more valuable as a result.
- fsloth 4y agoI guess you need to look at the current TAM for visual production in general. That's the baseline (so includes visualization studios, agencies, game studios etc). Generally this potentially can help in many labour intensive parts of a creative visual process. Is that a "large" organization market or not depends on your metric and what the market positioning of the offering is. I would see applications in both specialist content creation tools as well as "stock photos and merch". In terms of finding stock photos, if you add a better text api that is easier to control this probably can compete with static stock photos in the sense that people can tune their images as much as they like. For example with their corporate merch (Imagine producing a slideset at Acme co. "Please give me an elephant and walrus wearing acme caps". Ad agencies already love that they can train a model to quickly iterate product shot ideas extremely rapidly. Then we have "the usual" effect automation has on market demand - automation increases the productivity of a task requiring labour, hence allowing to reduce the cost of a unit of production, which generally increases the demand. I.e. creative stuff will be cheaper to do, you won't replace artists, but suddenly the dude or dudette who spent hours just tweaking stuff has their own art studio at finger tips to command. They can get so much more done much faster. The tech is not 100% bullet proof yet but at this pace it will be good enough soon (or probably is for several applications if there was just an UX sugaring targeting specific domain workflow).
- prakhar897 4y agoI'm in a kind of same boat. I think indie games are the way to show true potential of SD. Hence, I'm working on http://diffudle.com/ http://diffudle.com/ which is a mix of Wheel Of Fortune + Stable Diffusion + Wordle. I Can't figure it out but feels to me like its lacking something.
- CamelRocketFish 4y agoBookmarked! I love it, would be good to play past games
- prakhar897 4y agoThanks :)
- stymaar 4y ago> Hence, I'm working on http://diffudle.com/ http://diffudle.com/ which is a mix of Wheel Of Fortune + Stable Diffusion + Wordle. I Can't figure it out but feels to me like its lacking something. That's awesome, I love it!
- prakhar897 4y agoThanks :)
- Zitrax 4y agoIt confused me that the letter boxes were divided in 7+3, thus I thought it would be two words while the correct answer was a single 10 letter word. Maybe try to avoid wrapping words.
- prakhar897 4y agoNice Observation!! I'm thinking including a start and end mark to improve the UX would work well. I can't avoid wrapping as the prompt might be very large.
- nextlevelwizard 4y ago>Demoing even the v1 of stable diffusion to the non-technical general users blows them away completely. What do the results have to do with "non-technical" people? I am blown away every time I run stable diffusion of the images I get out from it.
- cassianoleal 4y agoI'm not. I find them funny and amusing but that's pretty much it.
- seydor 4y agoAnd we are not doing a good job at educating people and preparing them for what's to happen. People are so used to BigTech making decisions for them
- lannisterstark 4y ago>Huge market opportunity for folks wanting to ride the wave here. what precisely is the market here?
- LoveMortuus 4y agoAI mobile keyboard suggestions, aren't really so good that I would be impressed with it, especially because it gets it wrong so many times, although to be fair, I do write in the languages, which I'm quite sure doesn't help the AI in the slightest.
- seydor 4y agoWhile i agree it is exciting, the media industry will remain the same in size. Does this have applications outside media/entertainment ?
- layer8 4y agoThe dangerous thing is that people also don’t understand the limitations of that technology.