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My first one turned out to be pretty great!

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/70lx2Il45nK1rmcE1D...

I've been playing around with AI art generators for a while now and they are always great fun. Though it weirdly motivates to do some painting or creating of my own as if I need to compete with it. I think AI generators as inspiration tools is a very interesting use-case that I'd like to see more of!

As a side note, have any people bought any of the prints?

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That's a good one!

Most of my regular users are artists who either use it for inspiration or use it to mix into their digital art. (NightCafe has been around for a while as a style transfer app).

It's rare that people buy prints. Most money comes from people buying credits.

Is this profitable for you? Do the economics of it work out?

I'm somewhat involved in similar apps and I know the computation required, even for just inference, can be quite expensive.

It's not very profitable, about a 10% margin after doing a lot of work to get costs down and sales up.

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