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I took this a step further, turning charts into infographics using stable diffusion (SDXL)

https://karimjedda.com/beautiful-data-visualizations-powered...

It's chartjunk and should be used sparingly (e.g., on covers) rather than the actual content. I think it would be used frivolously in the hands of an undisciplined person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk

That's a really nice idea. Have you thought about making it a product?

Thank you for the kind words. I wouldn't even know where to start. There's a lot I can code and do, but making something into a product is something I have no experience with.

What's your recommended approach? Even if open-source, curious to learn.

Continue as an open source project by building features and refining the product. Once you have enough users you can start offering premium features and support to organizations. Maybe even apply to an accelerator? Good Luck!

Thanks for the positivity, I'll give it a shot.

If the product got good enough you’d have a shot at selling to Canva.

I would pay $5 for the occasional, chart-heavy month to upload my graphs without proprietary detail and get a few images to reroll through.

The technology for this type of generation (ControlNet) is already open source and relatively straightforward to reproduce the charts demoed in that post without shenanigans.

There's no moat.

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