Cool!
There are at least 2 more VQGAN + CLIP systems:
- makeai.art (also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28070149)
- makeai.art (also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28070149)
Looks like they're both new apps, so they've done well to get everything up and running so quickly! I already had a lot of the groundwork laid for NightCafe Creator, so it was much easier for me to get this done. There's a lot involved, especially if you're going to charge for use (which is a must if you expect to have any sort of volume in the long run).
I almost gave up on NightCafe when I was trying to make money from selling prints to people. Then, one user generated 3,000 creations in a week, which cost him nothing and me $300. I decided to spend the weekend implementing a credit system to prevent abuse, and was surprised to find that more people were willing to pay for credits than I expected.
It's still not much and I've had to spend a lot of effort on reducing costs in various ways just to be able to break even. But I love working on this app and have high hopes that _one day_ it will become profitable enough for me to work on it full time.
Style transfer on NightCafe has a bulk-create mode that has been used in the past to create 500+ creations at once and they all finished in 10 mins.