GusRuss89

Thanks, that project sounds interesting, I'd love to see some examples.

I should also clarify - I'm more of a front-end developer and I'm just using an open source style transfer algorithm from github (with some minor tweaks) on the back end. I can't take much credit for how well the artworks turn out, apart from the factors of UX guiding people to choose good images, and a good set of preset styles.

These are great suggestions, thanks!

I especially like the last one, particularly for a user's first creation - because if their first creation doesn't work out so well, it's often their last. Auto-creating a few jobs based on their content image - with styles that are known to work pretty well - would really improve their experience and first impressions.

NightCafe Creator has been my side project for about 6 months. It's a PWA built with TypeScript, React, Next.js and Firebase; and the style transfer jobs run on Algorithmia.

There are plenty of neural style transfer apps online. Some of the features that set mine apart are:

- Multiple style images with relative weights

- Style masks - clip a style to a certain region of the content image

- Free image search built in (via Pexels)

- No signup required to create (uses Firebase's anonymous users)

There are still a lot of improvements to make - I want to improve and speed up the back end algorithm, add public user accounts and the ability to 'like' creations, along with a never-ending list of smaller things like pagination - which I've avoided adding thus far.

This is probably the most effort I've ever put into a side project. Would love to hear your thoughts and am happy to answer any questions.

I've been trying to get my app onto that list - https://creator.nightcafe.studio

Some advantages / unique features over other options:

- use multiple style images - mask styles to certain regions of your content image

So good to see competition and progress on this front - regardless of where it comes from. I wonder how the scale of GM vs Tesla's R&D spend compares. Also didn't Tesla open source their battery tech?

I've always been an indie hacker, more adept at building applications/front ends than infrastructure and devops, so things like Netlify, Zeit Now, Firebase etc make a lot of sense to me because they abstract those parts away.

I've recently started at my first enterprise contract (10+ years into my career) in the cloud team (as a front-end engineer building the interface to a cloud console) and am amazed at the level of resources poured into infrastructure and devops.

I'm obviously new to enterprise - and there are probably reasons I'm not aware of that prevent them from going all in on things like static site hosts and managed infrastructure - but I do feel that there's a lot of room for enterprise to shift in this direction.

How much better would the world be if more people put effort into recognising their biases and improving their reactions to things?

Do the companies that do this make any claims about how they benefit society? To me, stock traders in general seem a departure from the idea that money is a result of providing value to society, but arbitrageurs seem even further detached. I'd be interested to hear if there are arguments I haven't thought of.

Well yeah, if it's an experiment that demonstrates a feature that Firefox doesn't support then of course it will be best viewed in Chrome. Experiments shouldn't count here.