I’ve dreamed for years of creating an AI tool that would 1) allow ANYONE to effortlessly create while also 2) being good enough to help augment small businesses, startups, and professional designers as well.

I’ve started and stopped on it so many times. But the technology was always just not quite there yet.

But this year, with the January release of OpenAI’s CLIP model, and the AI community’s absolutely amazing open source work on VQGAN, it all finally came together and become possible in a simple, affordable – while still limitlessly powerful – general purpose tool.

You can see what the community has already started creating here: https://accomplice.ai/community

With Accomplice, I want to help encourage and enhance the world’s creativity through AI, and I would love to hear what HN thinks.

(Note: Accomplice is powered by big beefy Nvidia GPUs so I am very aggressive with the paywall to keep the queue manageable. You'll have to pay to try it out. But as a solo business I've priced everything as reasonably as I can right now. I hope to potentially be able to lower costs though as the business grows.)

We are on a mission to make the physical world shoppable. We are using QR codes, NFC, Apple App Clips and Android Instant Apps to make it easy to reorder physical goods (like drinks, skincare, etc) and also to make it easy to buy merchandise at concerts and events.

Our focus is on creating immersive experiences that feel much different than a typical QR code or website. Check out an example by scanning the QR code on our website: https://getbatch.com

We have a small, senior engineering team of 4 and are looking for senior engineers to join the team. We believe in running a small autonomous team where each member is invested in the product and deeply trusted to build the right solutions for the business.

We just raised $5M from a series of top tier investors including Coatue and 776. [1]

Our stack is: Ruby, Rails, Heroku, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Lambda, React, Netlify, GraphQL, Apollo, Swift, Kotlin

Learn more and apply here: https://jobs.wrkhq.com/batch

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/23/this-qr-code-startup-just-...

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