Show HN: A free text-to-image website that supports SDXL Turbo

[frankmao]

https://comfyuiweb.com/

The homepage of the website allows for free image generation, and in the workflows, there are introductions to nodes related to ComfyUI. In the AI tools section, Pixart-Alpha is currently available for free use. I am still updating this website, and feedback and communication are welcome.

[smusamashah]

Why you named it ComfyUI? Your name make it sound like you are making that whole interface available online while infact you are only using that as your backend.

[noman-land]

How are you able to provide this service for free? What if someone generates tens of thousands of images? Won't that be very expensive for you?

[frankmao → noman-land]

Yes, there is a certain queue for the free service. If too much is generated, the longer the wait time is. The SDXL Turbo model has a manageable cost because it is generated faster.

[ilaksh → frankmao]

I assume your plan is to just hope that Stability.AI doesn't bother using you? Clearly this is a commercial service.

[frankmao → ilaksh]

Yeah, I know. I'm not doing anything profitable with the model, but of course if I wanted to commercialize it, I'd apply for a license from stability.ai

[simonw → ilaksh]

https://github.com/Stability-AI/generative-models/blob/main/... doesn't have any restrictions on commercial usage does it?

[out_of_protocol → simonw]

SDXL != SDXL-turbo, different license

[simonw → out_of_protocol]

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sdxl-turbo/blob/main/LICE...

Huh, TIL: "STABILITY AI NON-COMMERCIAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT"

[frankmao → simonw]

I learned. I will be replacing the model soon. I haven't looked too closely at the license.

[webmaven]

Nice! What settings are you using (steps, etc.)?

[frankmao → webmaven]

It's SDXL turbo model. And it only has 1 step.

[webmaven → frankmao]

Okay, and the other settings? Guidance, sampler, etc?

[bsenftner]

One would think, being described as "Comfyui Online" the expectation is the Comfy UI itself. Since it is not, is this not a misappropriation of the Comfy UI team's identity and their own grass root branding?

[brucethemoose2 → bsenftner]

Yeah, I am on the fence about flagging this post actually. Using the branding so blatantly feels really slimey.

That would be bad HN etiquette, right? Its not a straight up scam, its seemingly a legitimate service...

[cmdr2 → bsenftner]

Yeah, I assumed it was made by Comfy's author, as maybe a next evolution of their project. I was feeling happy for them.

But since it's not made by Comfy's author, it's definitely not cool to name your project by using their name.

[velcrovan]

Consider adding a spinner and disabling the generate button once clicked, otherwise there's no indication that clicking the button did anything.

The generated faces are whack

[frankmao → velcrovan]

There is spinner on the PC side. You can generate face using https://comfyuiweb.com/Pixart-alpha. The model is perfect and can generate 1024x1024 resolution images.

[neontomo → frankmao]

I also did not see any spinner on the PC side, but cool project and I love how fast it is.

[brucethemoose2]

Also see artbot, an actually free SD image generator: https://tinybots.net/artbot

The front end is all in the web app, and the backend generation is done by a swarm of volunteer hosts running on the AI Horde. I donate GPU time on my own 3090/2060 sometimes (albeit for text generation, not imagegen).

https://aihorde.net/

The whole thing is an awesome and tragically underused system.

[alsuren → brucethemoose2]

This is a pretty cool idea.

Recently I have been using SD 1.5 checkpoints with the LCM lora for all of my image generation (generally weighted down to 0.8 strength, with 6 step inference). It's not as fast as sdxl turbo, but at least it does a good job of people's faces.

It would be good to make more efficient use of people's donated resources by making it possible to use LCM lora.