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You can do that with flux.1, it's the best image model right now as far as I'm aware, especially for dealing with text.

This is the result for "vegetables spelling out the word "HELLO"" I used flux-pro on Replicate https://ibb.co/1RVKmdk


Wow, it used very intersting vegetables, the very common E shapped cucumber and of course, the commonplace O shapped Tomatoe with a void in the middle. Very usual vegetables, can buy them in any grocery store.


Sometimes I wonder if anything can actually impress anyone on this site.

Words have plagued image gen since the start. Now there is an image model that, with an extremely simple prompt, does an awesome job with words.

If they expanded their prompt and played with a few seeds until an image with perfectly realistic vegetables were generated, I wonder what the next complaint would be.


People are threatened. They are not going to celebrate the thing that makes them irrelevant. They are going to talk shit about it and downplay it.


im not sure if threatened is correct, i think it's more a collective "why?" And there hasn't been a particuarly convincing answer


Right, tons of gen AI stuff is super impressive. It's really cool that we can do all this stuff. In this thread we're talking about a fun toy.

But the actual practical applications are like, small useful tools. There's no real sign we're heading for a world-changing trillion dollar industry.


When I see the prompt "the word HELLO spelled out in vegetables", I expect realistic vegetables being assembled into the appropriate shapes, such that e.g. the O is made of many different vegetables arranged in a circle.

I don't expect imaginary nightmare vegetables.


Nice! I haven't had a go at flux yet but I'll keep that in my back pocket for the next time I need to spell a word using vegetables.


It got the letters right but none of the vegetables it used exist on this planet.



Yeah, and notice how the emphasis on the word "unusual".


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I have 14 years experience in full stack web development, I have managed small dev teams and have been a one-man IT department for small startups and non-profits. I believe in focusing on business results and revenue. I worked a lot with marketing departments in conversion tracking, conversion optimisation, A/B testing. I love building, making web applications and creating value.

I've been indie hacking for the last couple years as well, latest project is gumtrends.com - built with Laravel, took me 6 days from idea to finish and made it to HN front page.

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SEEKING WORK | UK or Remote | IT Consultant / Full Stack Engineer

Technologies: PHP, Laravel (9yrs exp), VueJS/NuxtJS, AlpineJS, MySQL, TailwindCSS, AWS, Azure, RESTful APIs, Adwords, GA Ecommerce, Git, Twilio, Stripe, Docker

Email: topoftheforts[at]gmail.com

CV: Please email and I'll send that over + LinkedIn profile

I have 14 years experience in full stack web development, I have managed small dev teams and have been a one-man IT department for small startups and non-profits. I believe in focusing on business results and revenue. I worked a lot with marketing departments in conversion tracking, conversion optimisation, A/B testing. I love building, making web applications and creating value.

I've been indie hacking for the last couple years as well, latest project is gumtrends.com - built with Laravel, took me 6 days from idea to finish and made it to HN front page.

Looking for projects and part-time opportunities.


I'm a software engineer and I'm trying to get into selling HTML templates. I wanted to do some competitor research to see what's selling a lot on Themeforest and what people are complaining about, to find gaps in the market.

So I made an app with Laravel that scrapes Themeforest and uses OpenAI APIs to summarise all the bad reviews.

The app is not publicly available but the result of my first scrape (circa 10 days ago) is on Gumroad https://albertofort.gumroad.com/l/themeforest-templates-ai-d...


I think the main link of this post should be the homepage and not the generated report, I was very confused at what I was looking at.

I understand the value proposition of this but I can't get past the feeling of "this is just more auto-generated garbage". I am aware that a lot of online outlets do pretty much the same - they summarize a press release and make it their own, adding some images - and this tool is automating that process.

I just can't see myself ever reading an article like this, especially cause it's obvious to me that it's AI generated (paragraphs starting with "Moreover," , "In Summary,"). I'm a sample size of 1 though, and many other people might still read articles like this.

Another doubt I have is in regards to Google - do they like this kind of content? From what I understand they're not against AI but it has to provide valuable information. This seems to regurgitate existing information without extra commentary, so is this even helping SEO?

Apologies if this comes across as negative, I appreciate the work involved, just trying to give some honest feedback.


You are not a sample size of 1, I completely agree with you.

People hate reading low-quality content created by humans, and as far as I’ve seen, AI-generated articles are even worse.

Even if someone manages to use AI-generated content to trick Google and rank well, I suspect that will be really bad for the content creator’s brand: people will read it only once, and as they realize it’s AI-generated, they will never come back.

People hate content farms.


Feedback is great, thank you.

I linked to the shared report so that it's obvious what is actually being produced, rather than just a description of it.

This is just an example summary of a single web page, you could imagine it producing much more compelling content, for example combining multiple pieces of information, along with a twist, just as many humans do when publishing on the web. FlowChai could search hundreds of documents to produce a report (using RAG), so in that sense it can go beyond what a person could do in a reasonable time frame.


"Maybe that was all preparation for slicing America in two using an Australia-shaped knife" one of those sentences I feel like no one has ever said before (/r/brandnewsentence material)


I don't think HN is the place for r/subreddithashtags


96%, really proud of that


thank you so much for sharing this site! I've been having a hard time wrapping my head around some Vue2->Vue3 changes and this is very helpful


I kinda feel it's mostly because of the paywall


Thank you! I think you're so right and I used that spirit to launch Gumtrends. I was worried about the reaction of people (about bugs, the scraping, missing features) but I'm so happy I launched anyway.


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