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photoshot
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premieroctet / photoshot

photoshot

An open-source AI avatar generator web app - https://photoshot.app

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3.9KGitHub stars
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What it is

An open-source AI avatar generator web app - https://photoshot.app

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-12-09 09:56:13 UTC to 2023-01-22 13:29:13 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsDec 52022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 262023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 16

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Dec 52022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC110
Dec 122022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 192022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 262022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 22023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 92023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 162023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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Show HN: Low-Cost 4K AI Avatar Generator

A little project I've been working on a project for the past month that offers low-cost AI avatar generation. And what distinguishes it from other AI avatar generators is, you can create as many AI avatars as you want, after training it once. Price for just generation is $0.01 per image(4k upscaled as well). Instead of using costly third-party APIs for training, inference, and upscaling, I'm using Runpod, which offers the lowest costs possible. The only way to get lower costs is getting so much volume that I can afford multiple GPU servers full time. I somehow missed the boom in AI avatar generators over the last two months, and in this fast-moving field, it feels like you can become obsolete if someone else gets there even a week before you. I want to give credit to https://github.com/shinework/photoshot for the foundation and frontend s
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tyling. The MVP I had early this month had a working backend but frontend styling is just not something I'm good at
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