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Show HN: Web app to generate AI pictures with logos "hidden" in
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Hey there Some time ago I built a site that generates AI pictures
in a style of GitHub logo (https://octoart.vercel.app/). It's
completely free, and even official GitHub accounts in Twitter and
Instagram (yes turns out they have Instagram) posted about it. It
was fun. So I thought it would be cool to build an app that works
with any logo, so people can generate nice branded pictures with
their logo. I went on to build https://logopictureai.com/. It's
build with Next.js, Replicate API and Supabase. It's a very early
version, I built it in a weekend. It works like this: your upload
a logo, type a prompt (or select a predefined one), select number
of variations to generate and click a button. Images will be
delivered to your email in 2-3 minutes. As I said, it's pretty
early and I am not sure if it's really useful. It works decently
with most logos, but sometimes can generate something weird.
Anyways, would love to hear your thought. Thanks!
Author : igorkotua
Score : 48 points
Date : 2023-10-30 16:54 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (logopictureai.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (logopictureai.com)
| nevodavid10 wrote:
| What model in replicate did you use?
| igorkotua wrote:
| I use a model which is trained to generate QR codes, it works
| well with logo too
| omneity wrote:
| You can use vanilla sdxl with controlnet.
| ibdf wrote:
| This looks interesting, but honestly, for a tool that can create
| infinite amount of images it's odd that you only have 1 low res
| logo example on the right side side (which seems to come from
| your other project). It's not enough to tell what the
| capabilities of the tool are, and it's not enough to get me to
| pay for it. I would suggest either a free-trial (even if it's
| super short) or provide more examples with different type of
| logos.
|
| FYI: all links on the bottom of your page lead to a 404. (Contact
| us Terms & Conditions Refund Policy Blog)
| igorkotua wrote:
| Yep, website is not polished yet. Definitely should add more
| pictures, agree
|
| I can also add like ~5 free images to new accounts when they
| sign up. Adding more might get pricey for me.
|
| Thanks for your thoughts
| solardev wrote:
| Side note: Just nitpicking, but on the topic of website
| polish, you might want to hire a copywriter (or an AI, I
| guess) to rephrase the English text on the page. It sounds
| very unnatural right now.
|
| Example: "You can no longer puzzle over where to get
| beautiful pictures" makes it sound like "You can't solve this
| picture puzzle anymore", which isn't what you meant. Maybe
| something like "Stop worrying and let LogoPicture make you
| the perfect brand image" or "Make a beautiful photo with your
| logo", etc.
|
| But that's just one of the many awkward phrases on the page.
| isoprophlex wrote:
| Also, several grating spelling mistakes. Even running the
| copy thru chatgpt would drastically improve matters.
| igorkotua wrote:
| Thanks for pointing out, yeah it was very fast paced
| wscourge wrote:
| This website looks real bad on my phone. Google Pixel 4a (5G).
| igorkotua wrote:
| Yeah sorry about that, it's not mobile optimized yet
| wepple wrote:
| Same on iPhone; clicked away immediately
| RosanaAnaDana wrote:
| The number of people hijacking foss tools and wrapping them up
| behind paywalls is hilarious.
| garrrikkotua wrote:
| What do you mean hijacking?
| drusepth wrote:
| Really just shows how little effort is put into making those
| foss tools easy to use for the layperson (NB: not implying that
| they should, just that they don't). Turns out people will pay
| to be able to use a slightly simplified version of something
| cool, that they would otherwise need to "figure out" a bunch of
| stuff to get it working.
| tayo42 wrote:
| Going from cool to usable for general public is a lot of
| work. And most of it isn't fun or rewarding. I get why open
| source doesn't do that, and why you would want money to go
| from solving a problem for your self to solving a problem for
| others in an easy way.
| solardev wrote:
| > Going from cool to usable for general public is a lot of
| work. And most of it isn't fun or rewarding.
|
| As a frontend dev, this is my favorite part of the work! I
| wish there was an easy way to find open-source projects
| wanting UI help in particular. Is there?
| all2 wrote:
| Oooh! Ooh! There's a guy who just posted a tool that has
| a limited license UI. He said he was going to work on
| rolling a new one. You should reach out maybe?
|
| This guy! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38044782
| burkaman wrote:
| I think it's the same as restaurants "hijacking" cheap
| ingredients and serving them up behind a paywall. Just because
| you think you could make a tool yourself doesn't mean it's
| never worth paying for, even professional chefs will pay for
| something pre-made and easy when they're hungry.
| kyleyeats wrote:
| You have to with this tech. If your thing takes off and you
| don't, you're stuck with a huge bill. Then you get leapfrogged
| anyway.
| xnx wrote:
| Here are some instructions for anyone who wants to do this on
| their own hardware: https://takin.ai/learn/generate-images-with-
| hidden-text-usin...
|
| Definitely a nice convenience feature to have someone pre-select
| the settings, but very doable for anyone with tech experience to
| set up by themselves.
| teaearlgraycold wrote:
| You really need some kind of free-tier, but I understand you're
| putting yourself at risk with that. Ideally you could run the
| model in the browser with WebGPU for trial users so that they
| could bear the cost.
| all2 wrote:
| I'd be curious about how big the model is. The loading time
| could be quite long. I suppose with caching, it won't be a big
| deal after the first run, though.
| andybak wrote:
| It's gonna be SD 1.5 and ControlNet, surely?
| broken_clock wrote:
| You can get something similar for free here:
|
| https://huggingface.co/spaces/AP123/IllusionDiffusion
| uticus wrote:
| I could see how this would be great for special event materials
| etc... if the pictures are what I want? There's no way to scroll
| through and choose, or even filter or change to get closer to
| something I want. So, no. Not interested in paying for a grab-
| box/gamble.
|
| If there were a way to fine-tune, then pick 10 or something, it
| would be a lot more useful. Could even watermark or something to
| keep freeloaders away, hopefully you get the idea.
| porsager wrote:
| So the exact same as https://ailogoart.com ?
| toddmorey wrote:
| Not meant as a criticism, just an observation: The novelty of
| these shapes hidden in images is already gone for me. It's
| amazing to think how fast the hype cycles around a clever concept
| will accelerate with generative AI being so available and easy.
|
| Meanwhile if people still had to do this stuff by hand in
| Photoshop, you could probably milk the gimmick for at least a
| couple of years Thomas Kinkade style.
|
| I'm reminded a bit of million dollar homepage and all the fast-
| follow clones that each earned about 86C/.
| jprete wrote:
| There's also a lack of actual communication. Yes, an AI image
| generator can stick a pattern into an otherwise totally
| different kind of image. But there's no communicative meaning
| there other than what I just mentioned. There's no cleverness,
| nothing interesting to discover in the details, no space where
| the imagination can fill things in because it's all plainly
| arbitrary, no deeper meaning other than a shape embedded in a
| pattern fill, however complicated the fill might be.
|
| I went looking at the details of the original spiral medieval
| town and all I found was a woman's skirt standing on its own
| with no body. And I know perfectly well the AI isn't trying to
| say anything clever with that.
| toddmorey wrote:
| That's true. Even when AI learns to not put torso-less legs,
| the wonder will be gone.
|
| Prior to AI, you'd stare at an image like this and I believe
| most of the magic was marveling at the cleverness & craft of
| the person who painstakingly created the illusion. That you
| could think, "wow I'd never have the patience, talent, or
| dedication to make something like that."
| aczerepinski wrote:
| Price feels fair for saving me time, but I have no use for a
| fairly low-res image. Do brands really want logo images that are
| less than 4k resolution and aren't vectorized?
| qingcharles wrote:
| You have to run it through another AI app to upscale it. That's
| how most of these AI images are being done these days.
|
| Vector is another matter. I don't think you'd want to try to
| vectorize the output from this, but again, there are a bunch of
| AI tools for doing it.
| andybak wrote:
| How would these even vectorize?
| dvrp wrote:
| so, like krea ai?
| serial_dev wrote:
| But can it write CSS so that the site looks acceptable on
| mobile???
|
| Snarkiness aside, the website looks awful on mobile, half the
| screen is not used, overflow issues, etc.
| jsf01 wrote:
| I think most of this would be resolved by just reducing the
| left and right padding on small screens. If the author is
| monitoring this thread, please consider making that update!
| Minor49er wrote:
| Looking at the "Answers to common questions about LogoPicture
| AI", the first question is "Do you offer refunds?" This makes me
| think that this is the question that most people are asking.
| Hopefully that isn't the case because this looks pretty neat
| minimaxir wrote:
| The original submission is likely using a ControlNet
| implementation. You don't need the special
| control_v1p_sd15_qrcode_monster ControlNet that the popular
| optical illusions technique uses: the common canny anf depth
| ControlNets works fine.
|
| When ControlNet first became mainstream I generated a fun series
| of tech company logo charcuterie boards using the Canny
| ControlNet and SD 1.5:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11bp30o/te...
|
| Of course now with SDXL you can create _very_ good ControlNet-
| constrained images.
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