Hi HN,
The idea is simple: new space-themed DALL-E images are generated every 30 minutes. The prompts used to generate the images are also AI generated: they are from GPT-4 API. A new prompt is added to the pool every 30 minutes and a new image is generated from a random pick in the list of prompts.
Users can generate their own images too, using our GPT4-built prompts. Each prompt is actually generated from a prompt-prompt! So that a "prompt" really starts with "Craft a DALL-E prompt that...." and then that prompt is used to generate the image. The space themes themselves and the initial prompts are also GPT generated (this time, with Chat-GPT4).
So I have a concept of 'space gold' which is kind of like GPT tokens. Generating an image costs 5 space gold, which you can earn by inviting users or buying space gold (500 space gold is $5).
I hope the tone of the site and text isn't too cute-sy or whatever - I wanted to capture an early-internet vibe; a site about space should include you in the crew, you know?
I also have a plan to make a 'text'-adventure game (but with DALL-E graphics generated on each turn) where users can explore the galaxy in an adventure. It will probably cost a few space gold per turn but I also imagine you could plunder a ship and get some gold out of it if you're clever. I think this idea should be possible but of course it is tricky to ensure the game stays on-topic. Eventually I'd like to make it multiplayer with a shared game state. Not sure if the LLMs can handle that yet though...
So here it is, incomplete and probably a bit janky but I think it's time to launch it. What do you think?
https://cosmictrip.space
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Some things I want to try: running a stable diffusion locally on the server rather than API calls to DALL-E, and also ideally a local LLM for the prompts but obviously GPT4 is best at that for now.
I also want to let users generate their own prompts from tags that are extracted from the GPT prompts. Haven't got this yet but will implement this soon.
Tech stack: Frontend is vanilla js+css+html, backend is python on flask, server is ubuntu on linode 4GB, database is sqlite3. This is my first website I've made in like 10-15 years so please be kind - constructive criticism massively welcome!
