if anyone is curious about what the generations look like, I just hooked up the website to the telegram group so all new images get shared automatically 😄
I finally opened a lightning wallet and logged in with LNURL and it was truly revolutionary. I don't have to bother with entering my email or giving Google even more control of my experience. What other sites are there that use LN-AUTH
It worked for me. Did your browser reload the page? That should have caused it to not work. It took me around a minute after payment for the image to render, while there was a loading spinner on the screen
However I have to do the math here: a 10 USD subscription with midjourney will give me 200 renders a month, so 0.05 USD a render.
At 1K sat per render this currently is 4x that price (0.20 USD). Plus here I have to dispose of my very much treasured sats while midjourney takes dirty fiat.
Not complaining. Dalle-2 might have its own cost structure and you're free to charge whatever you want. Just making a comparison here.
Fair enough, no KYC on this side, that's a plus for sure. Enough to grant a 4x price? well that's for everyone to evaluate individually.
It might also depend on what you're trying to generate and/or if you want to get around the rules. Just as an anecdote, MJ wouldn't draw anything that contains the word Jinping for instance, and if you try to go around it you might have your account banned. 🙄
I think it's important to remember that Midjourney does not allow for you to pay less than $10 per month. And Dalle-2 doesn't allow an expense less than $15. The minimum amount of money you can pay on describe.photo is $0.20, making getting images on demand. For the person that only wants to generate a few images and not 200, the $0.20 will always be cheaper than $10 min but for $0.05 / render.
Write a sentence of a photo you would like to get, like "Karl Marx buying a coffee with Bitcoin", click on GENERATE, LN invoice QR shows, so you pay that. And then you wait 20 seconds and 4 pictures show up. The cost is 1000 sats.
This is cool but it needs to be expanded to include all the tools (incl. MidJourney and StableDiffusion), for variations, and it needs to add outpainting and the breadth of options of StableDiffusion. Cool idea though!
Also just analysing the cost. 115 credits is 15 bucks. And there are 15 free credits every couples weeks. 13 cents an image, that's about 657 at the current exchange rate. Pretty good deal, tbh! Like the business model!
Jinpingfor instance, and if you try to go around it you might have your account banned. 🙄