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thanks! yeah, I didn't want to deal with all account management shaneningans yet (I'm planning to add sign in with apple next if that helps anyhow)

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Is signing-in necessary?

yeah... the first version I built actually had no sign in, but users would just try it once and go away, no way to save their images or publish it, but also, being totally open make it harder to throttle or block bots

I really wanted to be able to have a totally open and maybe get viral like dalle mini, but I don't have enough money to pay for lots of GPUs

Interesting. The thing that catches my attention most in the callout is 'print to canvas'. Rather than providing compute resources for the user to generate images, you could instead allow them to upload a pre-generated image and handle printing it to a canvas for them.

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