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Show HN: ColoringsAI – Custom Coloring Pages from Ideas (My Daughter's Idea)
I created ColoringsAI for my 4-year-old daughter, who loves coloring but sometimes gets bored with the same old designs.
With this app, you can type in any idea—like “a unicorn in a magical forest” or “a rocket flying through space”—and instantly turn it into a printable coloring page. It’s been a hit in our house, and now I’m sharing it with everyone!
Check it out at ColoringsAI and let me know what you think. I’d love to hear your feedback or any fun ideas you come up with!
- shireboy 2y agoWhat a brilliant idea!
- mkl 2y agoI tried "stegosaurus with giant lollipop", but I got a tyrannosaurus with three stegosaurus legs and stegosaurus spines but no thagomizer and no lollipop: https://imgur.com/a/1EPUm3F https://imgur.com/a/1EPUm3F. When I tried again it seemed to have frozen. The third try gave me the second tyrannosaurus mutant hybrid, but I did get a giant lollipop.
- bakkerinho 2y agoThanks for checking out the site! I'm currently using a cheap model, so there's a good chance the rate limiter will be hit with the traffic from HN going to the site. I didn't expect it to be a success, but it's being worked on :)
- vunderba 2y agoThere's a couple of these out there already - but the lack of a sign-up requirement is a nice touch. https://www.coloringbook.ai https://www.coloringbook.ai https://colorbliss.com https://colorbliss.com
- shireboy 2y agoI agree, no-signup is really nice, esp. since I'm hesitant to have my kids signup for things, and of course free is nice. That said, if you do want or need to monetize, one idea would be to slap a donation link like 'Buy me a beer' on it. I could see some people being willing to send a few bucks to your daughters' college fund in exchange for infinite coloring pages for their kids. Also, it probably makes sense to cache if you're not already - once someone generates "Paw Patrol vs Scooby Doo", put it in CDN and serve up from there instead of generating again.
- deanputney 2y agoMaybe "Buy us some crayons" instead? You could even do a partial donation for coloring supplies to a kids' charity.
- bakkerinho 2y agoThanks for thinking along, that's a good idea! If the costs were to increase enormously, I'm thinking of limiting the generation via machine id, or that the person would have to buy credits or something like that. Thanks for the CDN tip, will look into it. Currently hosting via Cloudflare, so shouldn't be that hard I guess.. (Famous last words) edit: Created the buyMeACoffee :) https://buymeacoffee.com/coloringsai https://buymeacoffee.com/coloringsai
- bakkerinho 2y agoThanks!
- xnx 2y agoNeat. What model are you using? https://huggingface.co/artificialguybr/ColoringBookRedmond-V2 https://huggingface.co/artificialguybr/ColoringBookRedmond-V... or one of these https://civitai.com/tag/coloring%20book https://civitai.com/tag/coloring%20book ?
- bakkerinho 2y agoThanks for sharing, I am not using any of those. Willing to train my own model in future as well!
- giarc 2y agoAny issue with copyright? Lots of brands named right in your copy.
- hesdeadjim 2y agoYea, OP couldn't have picked worse companies for aggressive copyright protection.
- danielvaughn 2y agoI used to work at Disney, and was amazed that they’re so large that their companies sue each other. Disney is so litigious that it sues itself lol.
- bakkerinho 2y agoThanks for your thoughts. To be honest, I have no idea. But if I google "Coloring Pages Pokemon", for example, I find dozens/hundreds of websites that are not Pokemon, so to speak.
- giarc 2y agoDoesn't make it legal. As a small site, I'm sure you won't draw the ire of some big companies, but if you start charging money, you'll likely get a cess and desist.
- lacoolj 2y agoWatch out for Pokemon usage they are super strict about that
- defnotai 2y agoThe longer an AI app exists, the probability that an output involving Hitler exists grows to one. - Godwin’s AI Law
- pbiggar 2y agoLove the concept. Though every image is pretty dystopian Evil monkey claw https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/a-christmas-themed-flesh-eating-monkey-cm3zzy0rm0002fbndbqpi14pe https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/a-christmas-the... Floating spiderman head: https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/spider-man-and-paw-patrol-remixed-cm404ovas000112ul91nx7kq4 https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/spider-man-and-... Whatever this is: https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/the-dark-depths-of-contemplating-your-existence-and-it-s-meaninglessness-cm404zo8b0006xcprgqum7705 https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/the-dark-depths... Raccoon head on baby's body: https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/a-diapered-raccoon-hugging-his-fox-friend-in-a-forest-cm405o18x000712jhccvw68ed https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/a-diapered-racc... Bear cub with wheels: https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/a-bear-family-cm405vz680000zltlpwj1bi34 https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/a-bear-family-c...
- aaomidi 2y agoRaccoon head on baby’s body is very cute
- egypturnash 2y agoI typed "a panopoly of penises playing pirates" and hit "generate" and it seems to be stuck now.
- JohnCClarke 2y agoThis is fantastic. Can you share any details of how you created the pictures? I am trying to do illustrations for a childrens book in a similar style (although I want much more detail on the pages) but all my attempts end up being a complete mess. But even if you can't share deets thanks for the inspo!
- jonplackett 2y agoIt is most likely using a Lora - it’s like an add on for stable diffusion that forces a specific style. You can find them ready-made for all sorts of styles - including black and white line art. Or you can also train your own using a few examples of a style you want to use.
- JohnCClarke 2y agoThanks!
- DrammBA 2y agoSeems like HN is having fun with it, not sure I want a 4-year-old coloring any of these: - https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/multiple-africans-in-a-field-picking-cotton-with-a-southern-gentleman-onlooker-in-the-background-with-a-whip-foreground-had-an-african-woman-picking-cotton-cm407vi0a0001lxbvp3qmcc63 https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/multiple-africa... - https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/a-penis-cm406l50u000412t5uxyir5j3 https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/a-penis-cm406l5... - https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/beutiful-girl-in-a-bikini-cm4064jtz0003sndskwkjjg4b https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/beutiful-girl-i... - https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/bloody-inhumane-act-of-war-with-a-lot-of-blood-splashing-everywhere-cm406kv4w0006byy9q2j210tz https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/bloody-inhumane... - https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/the-body-of-a-beautiful-woman-cm406vcp10004h9aw1mq20y2z https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/the-body-of-a-b... - https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/the-torso-of-a-beautiful-woman-cm406umyd00007xznjogwlvc8 https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/the-torso-of-a-...
- brudgers 2y agoSeems like a normal TTP. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/time-to-penis-ttp https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/time-to-penis-ttp
- bakkerinho 2y agoThanks for checking out the app. You're absolutely right, although that's still hard to stop with text input I guess.. I already use OpenAI's moderator tool to block the worst and am working on a blacklist of words to block. Luckily I still choose the coloring pages for my daughter myself ;
- DrammBA 2y agoThe AI title and descriptions are lovely too: > https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/10-10-beautiful-swimsuit-model-cm40lflop000810rnhwsc7a42 https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/10-10-beautiful... > Sexy Cartoon Woman Coloring Page > A coloring page of a woman in a cartoon style, with adult themes, ideal for kids who love drawing sexy characters.
- jonplackett 2y agoThis is a fun idea, but whatever version of stable diffusion being used isn’t very prompt adherent so any kind of complex scene or interaction between characters is mostly ignored, which reduces the fun a bit. Whenever I show things like this to my kids they always say something tbat’ll be really hard - like ‘a unicorn riding a princess’ and then everything comes back as princess riding a unicorn and they say ‘this sucks’
- vunderba 2y agoTrope subversion is always difficult since there is naturally so little training data in most checkpoints (SD, XL, etc.) that reverses things like this (mermaid with human legs and fish head, Cerberus with five heads, a piano where natural keys are black and the sharps/flats are white, etc.) Outside of manual control like ControlNets / Inpainting or a custom LoRa, there's not much you can do except "re-roll" hoping you'll get lucky.
- jonplackett 2y agoI wonder if when language models are better integrated with image generation models it’ll get any better at this. Or is this a fundamental issue that can’t be solved - it’s not like we’re going to add these edge cases to the training data
- Grandeculio 2y agoNice project =) I like to have fun tho... Yuna baastutions? Original prompt attempt. https://imgur.com/a/WKSWsWT https://imgur.com/a/WKSWsWT Not very good at swastika https://imgur.com/a/fD3Y8BZ https://imgur.com/a/fD3Y8BZ But Hitler looks okay https://imgur.com/a/tzLEedR https://imgur.com/a/tzLEedR