Show HN: Web app to generate AI pictures with logos "hidden" in them (logopictureai.com)

I use a model which is trained to generate QR codes, it works well with logo too

You can use vanilla sdxl with controlnet.

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

Yeah sorry about that, it's not mobile optimized yet

Same on iPhone; clicked away immediately

What do you mean hijacking?

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.

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.

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.

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.

It doesn't matter. They're all just fungible wrappers on OpenAI or Midjourney or some open source model or whatever the flavor of the week is. I don't blame people for doing this -- those "generate your profile photo in 20 different scenes with AI" that were big six to nine months ago (?) I heard generated literal millions from people putting a frontend in front of whatever AI source before those style of images fell out of fashion.

The critical error of OP's attempt at this was not spending the barest amount of thought or time on designing the website or writing reasonable copy. That, and the number of businesses who will use this are much smaller than the population of regular people who want to do something like AI-ify their profile photos.

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.

I think that's just about the context of where you see the content.

It's not that interesting as a hacker news post, or somewhere else with a tech audience.

The actual value for these things is in the mainstream, making content creation and graphic design easier.

In those fields, it's not about the novelty of, "wow that's impressive, how did they do that?". It's just about creating engaging content which is aesthetic and pleasing to people.

> The novelty of these shapes hidden in images is already gone for me.

Yeah I think it took approximately 1 AI image of cats spelling naughty words for me to crest that hill and lose interest in the entire technology. It's a technique that was only ever interesting because it took effort and cleverness, it turns out.

IMO there's a place in the world for easy, low-cost niche services that save you time.

I use things like remove.bg (a background remover) or VectorMagic (for raster vectorization) frequently, even though I have decades of experience in Adobe. Sometimes it's just easier/good enough to go through a dedicated tool that repackages some common workflow into a simpler wizard rather than have to DIY everything.

I tried to set up my own stable diffusion workflow the other day, using the ready-built GUI app Draw Things. Several hours of work and many gigabytes later, I managed to create several iterations of low-quality images that reminded me of early AI a few years ago. None of it approached the ease of use or output quality of, say, Midjourney, much less the state of the art these days (whatever it may be).

Maybe I could've tinkered with it for a few more days/weeks, but why? It's just an occasional toy hobby use for me, not something I want to get a degree in just to understand.

My main gripe with these services is their pricing model. I don't want to subscribe to something I might only use a few times a year. Wish I could just plop down like $10-$20 for a bucket of tokens that I can use-as-I-go. But that's not very sustainable for their business, I guess.

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.

Yeah totally agree, it's just for the first version. Upscaling will be built into the app

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!

Thanks for your comment! Grammar will be fixed

Downloading pictures from the website will be added soon, just wanted to launch the thing as fast as possible

Thinking about free tier