Turns out all that "waitlist", the ethics lecturing, letting in only bluechecks and the larping about how dangerous it is doomed your product in the end.
Hopefully the next time someone makes a tool as revolutionary as this they'll remember the mistakes of OpenAI.
Also, you can run it locally on a non-powerful machine. It just takes longer, but you can also just queue up as many prompts as you want and let your machine crank them out at its own pace. I use a first-gen macbook air m1 and it usually takes ~90s to generate an image with my usual settings.
Plus integrations into other applications like Photoshop and Canva. Open source has such a huge multiplier effect for innovation.
For anyone else stability offer a paid web version.
I get that competing with an open self-hosted alternative is a tough sell, but is this really different from other pay vs self-host scenarios?
I’d bet one you’ll hit 1000 generations much faster than the other.