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• Huppie
  I've been using (mostly) the OpenAI image generator for quite some time generating coloring pages, it's pretty decent at it and can generate just about anything my kids want as long as you word it a bit neutral to avoid it generating (something it recognizes as) copyrighted content.Great idea to turn your own photos into a coloring book generator!Edit: I wonder how you prevent it from generating copyrighted content when people upload e.g. 'photos' of Disney content? Or has that not been a problem yet?
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  mdeeks
  This is a cute and simple idea!I'd like to see what a real physical book looks like before I buy it though. Do you have real pictures of a printed one?I think our kids would appreciate seeing the original (even if a small thumbnail) along side it. You can't always tell from these AI drawings that it was originally you and your family.Also, it's REALLY expensive. $30 for a book that my kids will draw on in one or two nights and then never touch again is probably too much.
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  zeroq
  This is fucking amazing!Everyone and their mother are trying to hop on the band wagon of AI and make a half assed service just because it may sell just due to the "ai" tag attached to it - this is different!Chapeau bas! It's simple but brilliant. It's a great example of what a good idea is - with minimal effort he made an epic product focusing not an AI, but what AI can bring to the table and executing it flawlessly. Hats off!
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  sharkjacobs
  from clevercoloringbook.com: > Please only upload photos that are in line with OpenAI's Usage Policy. > We are not able to include any photos that do not follow their policy in the final printed book. from openai.com/policies > Editing uploaded images or videos that contain real people under the age of 18 is not permitted. The first two sample pictures on the page contain of adolescent children. Are you concerned about this apparent contradiction?
• schuettla
  great idea! how did you realize the actual producing of the book? you connect to some print on demand api like from printify?
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  barbazoo
  For anyone looking for a prompt to do this manually, it seems to be as simple as this:> Generate a version of this photo that can be used as a coloring sheet
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  mmastrac
  The comics look pretty Miyazaki-inspired, like all of the comics I've seen lately. I've kinda started to dislike this look because it's _everywhere_ that low-effort comics are these days.Maybe worth trying to train a better style for this. This is probably something where you could put a little effort in up-front (ie: using a model that's for segmentation to get outlines, using some classic image-processing for boundary detection) and then have AI touch it up a little more lightly and a less of the "default" style.Also, do you have AI images for the "real world" samples on the left? They have a certain "I don't exactly know what, but it's creeping me out" vibe.
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  rafram
  For what it’s worth (and it’s probably not much), it doesn’t cost that much to commission comic book-style art from an actual artist online. When you do that, the proceeds go to an artist, not to an AI company that stole from them and a software developer who wrote a wrapper around their API.
• zengineer
  Well done - I like the style of the page and simplicity!We recently created one too, where you get a printable version: dibulo.com/editor - the next step will be to bring the templates to life again.
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  DrakeDeaton
  Not sure if you're aware, but if you're interested in SEO/AEO marketing, there's very healthy monthly traffic for long-tail searches in this area. Some searches getting towards 100K per month.Love the idea! Good luck.
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  ugh123
  Love it! Idea: option to print "mini books".I have some kids that still color, and it would be great to keep something in my pocket to give them quick with a crayon or pen.
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  ks2048
  Suggestions:* one full PDF (including cover) of an example book.* don't use AI images as examples - it's not obvious if the outline version will look as good on real images.
• osigurdson
  I tried copying the one of the photos into ChatGPT and asked it to make me a coloring book style image out of it. It is definitely not as good as this site (i.e. I don't think kids would recognize themselves). Good prompting!
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  vunderba
  You'll want to really drive home the niche (through your feature set) that it's for family photos, because the generic photo to AI vectorized coloring book service has been done to death.
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  avree
  Cool idea and really nice looking site.Pricing is quite high - 24 pages maximum for $23.99. There are 100-page coloring books on Amazon for $5.00, and the age group that really would be using this is not going to remember what was on the page a week from the day they did it.Maybe it can work in the nice of "adult coloring books" - I've seen some social media content where people really go crazy on coloring books, and being able to get nice physical copy to work off could appeal there.
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  darkxanthos
  Wow a lot of criticism. I'm considering a similar business. I think this is too expensive when printing this is so easy these days. But charging some small about per printable coloring book would be very attractive.
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  abaymado
  I like GPT wrapper's that let me personalize/customize existing real world things, and this a good example of that. I like it.
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  Terretta
  Seems like this cat (and various variants in similar settings) was a top rated image in Sora's explore/images a week ago. Was it yours, should it be credited, or did you hit edit prompt<enter> to get a variant?No worries, just wondering how that should work.
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  ks2048
  Can you preview the images? I uploaded one image and don't see the outline-version.
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  ks2048
  This is a great idea and looks well done.I wonder if printing services (Lulu?) have a automatic API or if it requires some manual intervention? (And the shipping part?)
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  themanmaran
  Nice and simple! I'm excited for all the fun micro businesses that get enabled by the new image API.Things like your coloring book, instant sticker/tshirt/swag creation, video game assets, etc.Also love the "tap 5 times for a discount" feature.
• hamiecod
  How did the launch go? Could you share Revenue stats after the first 24 hours of the launch?
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  irishmansevilla
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• gitroom
  Nicely done, Ive always wanted something like this for my family pics. you think AI-generated art will ever feel as special as something handmade?
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  sabslikesobs
  Do you ever handle the physical book, or is this a fully automated drop-shipping operation?
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  transformi
  Why don't you use canny/HED filter :O? (seems pretty overkill for this job..)
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  pelagicAustral
  Awesome idea, implementation and design!
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  xnx
  Is there somewhere to download a PDF to print out?
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  kelvinjps10
  Why not just an option to print the image?
• jaredcwhite
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  MaxLeiter
  For those interested in building something similar, I prompted a story book generator using v0 and Gemini’s image generation a few weeks ago:Demo: https://v0-story-maker.vercel.app/The chat: https://v0.dev/chat/ai-story-book-creator-zw7TrmkN2Eb
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