Readit Newsjkbl commented on Show HN: Stable Diffusion v2 web interface getimg.ai/text-to-image... · Posted by u/jkbl
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.
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.
jkbl commented on Show HN: Stable Diffusion v2 web interface getimg.ai/text-to-image... · Posted by u/jkbl
That's amazing, thank you for sharing!
If not a secret, how are you marketing it?
I try to be everywhere, when I have free time from adding new features ;)
jkbl commented on Show HN: Stable Diffusion v2 web interface getimg.ai/text-to-image... · Posted by u/jkbl
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?
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.
jkbl commented on Show HN: Stable Diffusion v2 web interface getimg.ai/text-to-image... · Posted by u/jkbl
I can’t even register with my own email domain because of “We do not support disposable email addresses!” error
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.
jkbl commented on Show HN: Stable Diffusion v2 web interface getimg.ai/text-to-image... · Posted by u/jkbl
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
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.
jkbl commented on Show HN: Stable Diffusion v2 web interface getimg.ai/text-to-image... · Posted by u/jkbl
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.
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.
And labeling a domain as disposable, when it's clearly isn't, sounds a bit strange to me.
I use email verification API for this. It states to make decisions based on public email blacklists and lists of disposable emails. Cleary it's not perfect