darajava

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   by darajava 1y ago

   I managed to sign up to the free version (by altering the URL to not point to localhost) and I uploaded a sample computer science exam paper. That's as far as I got though - its status is "Pending" (No idea what that means).
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   by darajava 1y ago

   Brave does this by default and it works flawlessly apart from on fairly obscure websites (a lot of obscure websites don't have cookie notices anyway). I don't know why more people don't use Brave - you can turn all the annoyi
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   by darajava 1y ago

   I've added this option - we send out two print-ready PDFs for the cover and the coloring sheets.
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   by darajava 1y ago

   What's so bad about it?
5. 35.▲
   by darajava 1y ago

   I mean it's pretty close. The handmade element comes from coloring it in.
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   by darajava 1y ago

   Yes I use the Lulu API. It's great!
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   by darajava 1y ago

   Thanks!
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   by darajava 1y ago

   Oh, lol. Nice catch - I'll fix that.
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   by darajava 1y ago

   I'll implement this today. Edit: I've implemented this! It's a lot of code changes so I hope I didn't break anything.
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Thank you! OpenAI costs are surprisingly expensive. It's about $7 to generate a whole book (24 pages). There are 8-24 images allowed in a book, with a cover too. So there'll be 48 max pages in a book (incl blank pages).
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Yes! https://openai.com/index/image-generation-api/ I was very excited when it came out. Google have Imagen 3 (is that the same as Gemini Flash?), but you need special access to be able to edit images. I haven&#x2
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Thanks! Hasn't been a problem yet, but if that happens I'd just email the customer directly and ask for a replacement photo/if it's okay to leave that one out.
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    by darajava 1y ago

    The printing aspect of this wasn't too easy... I wish I could charge less but as it stands (especially with surprising API costs) I'm barely making a profit on this.
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Yes it's dropshipping, I use Lulu.com's api - it's awesome!
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    by darajava 1y ago

    I can't imagine how much it would cost to commission an artist to do a whole coloring book and then organize them and send them to print but it's a good point. AI is never going to be as good as a real commissioned artist, but thi
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    by darajava 1y ago

    I don't know much about it, feel free to send an email to dara@clevercoloringbook.com
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Thank you! I was happy with the discount thing alright but it's not useful for tracking referrals unfortunately.
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    by darajava 1y ago

    I was thinking of doing different sizes alright! They might not be too much cheaper, that's the only problem I can think of there.
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Great point. As per our TOS - users of the site must be over 18 and have the consent of everyone in the image (i.e. their own kids, relations etc). I put that line about OpenAI's usage policy there for practical reasons. If someone ord
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Wow, yes you're right. I did in fact take that image from the Sora homepage because I thought it was cute. I pretty much just assumed they're all in the public domain. I can't find the image anymore so I've decided to re
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Thanks so much! Really glad you like it.
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Thanks! I've added a section at the bottom of the site showing some real photos of an actual coloring book I got in the mail. There are thumbnails of all photos uploaded on the back. $24 + postage is the lowest I could reasonably charg
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Thanks! I priced it as low as I could given the costs of printing the book, Sora's API costs, and the human effort that goes into it (there are some creative choices to be made too!). The 100 page books you see on Amazon aren't pe
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    by darajava 1y ago

    No, but perhaps I could add this as a paid option.
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Thank you!
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Oh nice catch! Fixed, thanks.
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Canny filter: https://i.imgur.com/Ju7Ggac.png Sora: https://clevercoloringbook.com/samples/3_cartoon.png I've had this idea years ago and searched extensively for a way to turn images into nice li
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    by darajava 1y ago

    There is a good bit of manual effort involved on our side before we send the book to print - we generate the images, regen any that don't look great, choose the best cover, and then send the PDF to Lulu. Yes it's dropshipped, we n
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Thank you!
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    by darajava 1y ago

    Thanks! There is a good bit of manual effort involved on our side - we generate the images, regen any that don't look great, choose the best cover, and then send the PDF to Lulu. It's dropshipped, we never see the physical book.