Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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But if you make a real photo, all the problems with your face, like it just, you look wrong, you know? So I started making photo AI, which was like a pivot of it, where it was like a photo studio where you could take photos without actually needing a photographer, needing a studio. You don't just, you know, you just type it. And I've been working on it for like the last year.
And it's a lot, like it's a lot for anybody. It's a lot for me, like, uh, making 10 K a day on this, you know, that's amazing.
And then the nested tweet, like that's the launch tweets. And then the, before there is like the me hacking on it.
Because my eyes are quite far apart. I learned when I did YouTube, I would put like a photo of like my DJ photo, you know, my mixture. And people would say I'd look like a hammerhead shark. It was like a top comment. So then I realized my eyes are far apart.
Yeah, it helps you realize how you look, you know?
First trap.
It's water from the waterfall, but the waterfall is in the back, you know? So what's going on?
It's all AI. It's all AI. Yeah.
Exactly. So, but this was hit or miss. So you had to do a lot of curation because 99% of it was really bad. So these are the photos I uploaded.
Yeah.
Exactly. I would imagine that too. When I started, I was like, oh, this must be like some 3D scan technology, right? Yeah. So I think the cool thing with AI, it trains the concept of you. So it's literally like learning, just like any AI model learns, it learns how you look. So I did this and then I was getting so much, I was getting DMs, like Telegram messages, like, how can I do the same thing?
I want these photos. My girlfriend wants these photos. So I was like, okay, this is obviously a business. But I didn't have time to code it, make a whole app about it. So I made an HTML page, registered a domain name. And this was not even, it was a Stripe payment link, which means you have literally a link to Stripe to pay, but there's no code in the back.
So all you know is you have customers that paid money. Then I added a Typeform link. So Typeform is a site where you can create your own input form, like Google Forms. So they would get an email with a link to the type form or actually just a link after the checkout and they could upload their photos. So enter their email, upload the photos and I launched it. And I was like, here, first sale.
So it's October, 2022. And I think within like the first 24 hours was like, I'm not sure, it was like a thousand customers or something. But the problem was I didn't have code to automate this. So I had to do manually.
So the first few hundred, I just literally took their photos, trained them, and then I would generate the photos with the prompts and had this text file with the prompts and I would do everything manually. And this quickly became way too much. But that's another constraint. Like I was forced to... code something up that would do that. And that was essentially making it into a real website, right?
No, it's download the images myself. It's a zip file. It's a unzipped zip file. And you unzipped it? Yeah, unzipped it. Yes, and then I, no, because, you know, do things, don't skill, Paul Graham says, right? So, and then I would train it and then I would email them the photos. I think from my personal email, say, here's your, Here's your avatar. And they liked it.
They were like, wow, it's amazing.
Because I didn't have an email address on this domain.
Yeah, and then you know who signed up? Like, man, I cannot say, but really famous people, like really, really like billionaires, famous tech billionaires did it. And I was like, wow, this is crazy. And I sent, I was like so scared to message them. So I said, thanks so much for using my sites. You know, he's like, yeah, amazing app, great work.
So it's like, this is different than normal reaction, you know? It's Bill Gates, isn't it? Cannot say anything.
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