[HN Gopher] Show HN: Stable Diffusion v2 web interface
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Show HN: Stable Diffusion v2 web interface
Author : jkbl
Score : 46 points
Date : 2022-11-24 19:58 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (getimg.ai)
| tuhins wrote:
| cool, great to see more and more of these coming up!
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| you can also check out our demo for Stable Diffusion v2. it's
| free to use, with no email sign-in required and no credit system.
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| https://app.baseten.co/apps/VBlnMVP/operator_views/nBrd8zP
| devxpy wrote:
| Shameless plug - We don't require logging in!
|
| https://app.gooey.ai/CompareText2Img/?example_id=1uONp1IBt0Y
| mrkeen wrote:
| Does it generate images though? I gave it a prompt around an
| hour ago and it's still just spinning.
| devxpy wrote:
| Yeah, seems like its been hugged to death a bit. A single GPU
| is not quite enough.
|
| Completes in around a minute for me right now
| [deleted]
| Traubenfuchs wrote:
| But do you allow high res nsfw Emma Watson prompts?
| rejectfinite wrote:
| I can't wait for the morally concerned to rail against Stable
| diffusion once they find the /b/ threads and AI is going to
| get locked down... Its going to happen. "This AI tool enables
| sick PREDATORS!!"
| kburman wrote:
| I hate it when website hide login popup until user click on
| action button. It's such a dark pattern.
| ftufek wrote:
| FWIW, you're not the only one. On our product, we experimented
| adding login when the user tries to use any of our tools and
| something like ~60-70% of users dropped off. So essentially,
| whoever implements that is killing their user funnel at the
| very beginning which I'm guessing will have larger effects down
| the road (fewer users experience "magical moments" which leads
| to less word-of-mouth, etc).
|
| On the flip side though, I'm sure it may help metrics in the
| short term especially since it's expensive to offer a service
| like this (which requires expensive GPU servers).
| [deleted]
| _Microft wrote:
| Requires login.
|
| Saying that it requires login before someone spends time to think
| up a description for an image would have been nice (because I
| won't sign-in to try something anyways).
|
| Edit: rephrased to remove overly negative language.
| [deleted]
| jkbl wrote:
| I don't see this as baiting. The link to a tool page was
| shared. It's transparent on the homepage and in the header. The
| text to image page just shows how it works without the need to
| create an account.
| Traubenfuchs wrote:
| It's absolutely not transparent. Showing an active "start
| process" button that leads to a sign up / login form isntead
| of starting the process is absolutely not what users want or
| expect.
| version_five wrote:
| No, it's definitely a dark pattern. Everything about the page
| suggests that pressing the "generate 4 images" button will
| generate four images. And then it doesn't and tries to lever
| that anticipation to get a sign-in. It ends up just making
| users angry.
|
| If you need a sign-in, e.g. to prevent abuse, you could start
| by explaining that a sign-in is required and why. At least
| then people won't be angry when they are ambushed by it
| jkbl wrote:
| Ok, agree about that. Just did not have time to polish the
| details. It's not intentional. I've added login to the
| site, after nearly going bankrupt for offering free
| generations. The UI needs an update.
| ShamelessC wrote:
| Proof that people just upvote stuff with stable diffusion in the
| title without clicking the link or taking more than a cursory
| glance.
| [deleted]
| 88stacks wrote:
| Here is another that is free AND allows you to create your own
| custom model: https://88stacks.com yes it does require a login
| [deleted]
| davidkunz wrote:
| This site doesn't require a login:
| https://tinybots.net/artbot?model=stable_diffusion_2.0
|
| Posted by @davely today.
| [deleted]
| IceHegel wrote:
| Wow v2 seems worse than v1.5.
| kyleyeats wrote:
| They took out a bunch of artist references, and a bunch of
| celebrities. The two things that made SD stand out. It's no
| longer the fun one.
| lumenwrites wrote:
| Great project!
|
| I have a question - how can you afford to run this? I looked at
| the server costs on google compute and runpod.io, and the ones
| with GPUs powerful enough to run SD are pretty expensive. I'm
| guessing you don't have a lot of paying users at the beginning,
| so I don't think you have enough revenue to cover the costs (at
| least when you're just getting started).
|
| Do you just spend a lot of money to fund this, and hope that once
| you have enough users it will pay for itself? Or did you find
| some affordable way to run a server? If yes, and if it's not a
| secret - where are you renting the server, what are its specs,
| and how much does it cost?
| jkbl wrote:
| At the beginning it was just burning money, but it stars to
| turn into profit.
|
| The only secret to making it affordable is to autoscale based
| on a current image generation traffic. It runs on a mix of
| Tesla V100 and RTX 3090 from runpod.io vast.ai and Lambda Labs.
|
| I actually went through a couple of iterations with it,
| starting as completely free service, then offering one time
| payments for image credits and now settled on subscriptions as
| I see there is a demand for the product. Especially AI
| Editor[1] which I think offers a unique value to the users.
|
| [1] https://getimg.ai/editor
| lumenwrites wrote:
| That's amazing, thank you for sharing!
|
| If not a secret, how are you marketing it?
| jkbl wrote:
| I try to be everywhere, when I have free time from adding
| new features ;)
| synapticpaint wrote:
| On AWS, a g5 instance costs $1/hr. I can generate roughly 10
| images per minute (should be able to get this down with some
| optimization), so 600 images per hour, so the cost per image is
| 1/6 of a cent, before adding overhead (idle time, start up/shut
| down).
|
| Source: I run a similar project: https://synapticpaint.com/
|
| I also offer dreambooth model training for around $2-$4 / model
| as well as inference on custom dreambooth models. Inference on
| custom models is where things get a little tricky because if
| users are using different models and you're loading up new
| models all the time just to generate 6 images, then that
| quickly becomes the majority of the work load, drastically
| pushing up the inference cost. I haven't solved this problem
| yet. If you have any great ideas, feel free to email me (email
| in profile)!
| permanent wrote:
| I'd love to know this as well.
| nacs wrote:
| Stable diffusion only needs 4GB of VRAM to run on the low end
| so you can rent low-end consumer GPUs (nvidia RTX for example)
| for around $0.10 an hour to do the renders.
| jkbl wrote:
| Yeah, but that's only true when you use one model for
| yourself. More VRAM is needed for running such a service. It
| currently loads 6 models per single GPU. And I think I have
| some VRAM left to add even more.
| mechanical_bear wrote:
| Verify email? No thanks.
| mlu509 wrote:
| Wow. That's pretty fast!
| Hoefner wrote:
| I can't even register with my own email domain because of "We do
| not support disposable email addresses!" error
| jkbl wrote:
| It's a measure to prevent multi accounts. Some people really
| overuse free offering. Either your domain/IP is on a spam list
| or your email server may be misconfigured.
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