We're currently working on our license/terms of service. Will have an answer for you shortly

yes definitely - thanks for the comments. We'll think about these points and get back to you later this week(via your contact in your bio)

This is a work-in-progress, will get back you

To be very clear, I never said open-source is a problem.

In fact, Rubbrband started as an open-source project.

Each member of our team are ML researchers who have committed tens of thousands of lines to open-source.

I think you're conflating open-source with local installations. Our founding team was not fan of the interfaces that a lot of these projects have for our use cases. Not to mention, our hardware just doesn't run them.

Thanks Ed! really appreciate the feedback and support.

this is true. However I would my friends and I only have Macbooks so for us we wanted something that ran on the cloud

Are you saying that the torch performance with MPS support enabled didn't meet your performance expectations? Or are you using an intel macbook and/or one with a tiny amount of ram/vram?

The M1 was released in 2020, chances are by now a macbook has ARM and neural cores which are ok to do local inference

They’re OK, but certainly a lot slower than with an Nvidia GPU.

Modern MacBooks are great at this stuff since they have unified memory and the GPU can use all of it

yeah we went through a few pivots actually - Rubbrband was initially a mobile app for musicians. It would listen to your practice sessions and give feedback. We pivoted out of this primarily because of issues with the technology and market.

At what point does it stop making sense to call it a pivot? I was an adopter during your open-source SD training script phase. These earlier efforts sound completely unrelated to anything I'd be interested in. So what are you, as a team, even doing, if your customer and your product are so inconsistent? What is the driving force?

Bizarre, IMO.

We don't offer any non-free-to-use checkpoints/LORAs on the platform out-of-the-box. If you wanted to import a model/lora to your own account from a CivitAI link you can do so, but we're at this point letting users do this under good faith that they have permission to use these models.

We also have face IP-adapter nodes in our app!

I would say there are a lot of more minor UX differences about our app than other offerings. One particular favorite of mine is the ability to switch between the Node Editor screen and the Playground screen using cmd+p.

We built this feature mainly bc the node editor isn't great for generating images, but it's awesome for dialing in the exact aesthetic you want with different nodes/settings. We built the Playground screen for generating images once you have a workflow you like.

appreciate it! would love to hear your thoughts after using it

gotcha thanks. any suggestions there? our goal is to have more levers than something like Midjourney, but without the complexity of comfy. Hard to convey this in a tagline lol

Take a look at OpenArt and how they're positioning themselves. They ditched their free and hobbyist users and now they're doing workflows for business and marketing use cases. Word on the street is that they're making an absolute killing. More revenue than giants like Leonardo, which is a full on drawing and animation suite.

You'd be surprised what making workflow easy can unlock in revenue potential. Look at how they're selling it and lean into that. I'd be doing it if our product was shaped like that.

Thanks this is very helpful

Maybe something like "Simple UI to get started. Advanced options for power users who want more control."