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e should be able to not only own their apps, but be able to deeply customize them. I've also built an open source FAL/OpenRouter which I eventually want to build RunPod/Featherless (fine tunes) features into. It's called "Foundation", and it's in private beta but launches GA soon. I think it could have good positioning vs. Stripe / OpenRouter since it's open source and is meant to be extensible. Fully BYOK, too. I'm looking to hire someone to help me build a social layer for creators that ties all of this together. YesAnd got funding to pursue this, but I think they're taking the wrong approach. I think it should be open and hackable. More like Github, but still artist friendly. A lot of platforms either target B2B enterprise (Runway, Krea) or UGC / "everyone can be a creator" (Higgsfield, OpenArt), but I think creators look more like the Github set. Intentional, and in need of tools they own.

n Bevy. Our services use Actix Web and SQLx, and it’s preferable if you have experience with distributed systems. Strong need for Rust + MySQL + Backend experience. We leverage Claude Code extensively, but we still want meticulously maintainable, human readable/editable code. Email me: brandon@storyteller.ai

pting in the places and times where you know you what you want. It's like a WYSIWYG editor. Here's an example: https://app.getartcraft.com/edit-3d/m_qa72baw3crghyfn2bbw52j... (Sci-Fi horror film, starring Garry Tan.) I was just told that Google built a 3D tool similar to ours that they're showing off at Google IO. I don't view this as bad, but I do want to share ours before they get all the attention. OpenAI's GPT Image is a lot better at this "3D previz to full render" task than Google's Nano Banana, and it's excelled at this workflow since GPT Image 1. (Unless Google shows off a brand new model for the task, I expect this to still be the case.) Our plan is to build vertical specialized tools for animation, editing, dubbing and make the entire stack - including cloud API routers and model containers - open source. Here's an example of timeline based animation (and we have the ability to edit animation curves for all objects, meshes, cameras, etc.): https://imgur.com/a/00q76j2 Our tool has BYOK and subscriptions, so you can use lots of other API providers and even log in with the commercial versions of other models and aggregators. We don't care if we book the revenue directly, we want to build the rails and the UX and win mindshare. We hit a pretty good growth spurt and have had folks start sending us PRs, which has been exciting. Eager to see what Google's version of this looks like. If you're a Rust developer interested in film and media, I'd love to say hi.

dho We've been making silly shorts ourselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqoCWdOwr2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4NFXGMuwpY The secret is that a lot of studios have been using AI for well over a year now. You just don't notice it, and they won't ever tell you because of the stigma. It's the "bad toupee fallacy" - you'll only notice it when it's bad, and they'll never tell you otherwise. Comfy is neat, but I work with folks that don't intuit node graphs and that either don't have graphics cards with adequate VRAM, or that can't manage Python dependencies. The foundation models are all pretty competitive, and they're becoming increasingly controllable - and that's the big thing - control. So I've been working on the UI/UX control layer. ArtCraft has 2D and 3D control surfaces, where the 3D portion can be used as a strong and intuitive ControlNet for "Image-to-Image" (I2I) and "Image-to-Video" (I2V) workflows. It's almost like a WYSIWYG, and I'm confident that this is the direction the tech will evolve for creative professionals rather than text-centric prompting. I've been frustrated with tools like Gimp and Blender for a while. I'm no UX/UI maestro, but I've never enjoyed complicated tools - especially complicated OSS tools. Commercial-grade tools are better. Figma is sublime. An IDE for creatives should be simple, magical, and powerful. ArtCraft lets you drag and drop from a variety of creative canvases and an asset drawer easily. It's fast and intuitive. Bouncing between text-to-image for quick prototyping, image editing, 3d gen, to 3d compositing is fluid. It feels like "crafting" rather than prompting or node graph wizardry. ArtCraft, being a desktop app, lets us log you into 3rd party compute providers. I'm a big proponent of using and integrating the models you subscribe to wherever you have them. This has let us integrate WorldLabs' Marble Gaussian Splats, for instance, and nobody else has done that. My plan is to add every provider over time, including generic API key-based compute providers like FAL and Replicate. I don't care if you pay for ArtCraft - I just want it to be useful. Two disclaimers: ArtCraft is "fair source" - I'd like to go the Cockroach DB route and eventually get funding, but keep the tool itself 100% source available for people to build and run for themselves. Obsidian, but with source code. If we got big, I'd spend a lot of time making movies. Right now ArtCraft is tied to a lightweight cloud service - I don't like this. It was a choice so I could reuse an old project and go fast, but I intend for this to work fully offline soon. All server code is in the monorepo, so you can run everything yourself. In the fullness of time, I do envision a portable OSS cloud for various AI tools to read/write to like a Github for assets, but that's just a distant idea right now. I've written about roadmap in the repo: I'd like to develop integrations for every compute provider, rewrite the frontend UI/UX in Bevy for a fully native client, and integrate local models too.

dho We've been making silly shorts ourselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqoCWdOwr2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4NFXGMuwpY The secret is that a lot of studios have been using AI for well over a year now. You just don't notice it, and they won't ever tell you because of the stigma. It's the "bad toupee fallacy" - you'll only notice it when it's bad, and they'll never tell you otherwise. Comfy is neat, but I work with folks that don't intuit node graphs and that either don't have graphics cards with adequate VRAM, or that can't manage Python dependencies. The foundation models are all pretty competitive, and they're becoming increasingly controllable - and that's the big thing - control. So I've been working on the UI/UX control layer. ArtCraft has 2D and 3D control surfaces, where the 3D portion can be used as a strong and intuitive ControlNet for "Image-to-Image" (I2I) and "Image-to-Video" (I2V) workflows. It's almost like a WYSIWYG, and I'm confident that this is the direction the tech will evolve for creative professionals rather than text-centric prompting. I've been frustrated with tools like Gimp and Blender for a while. I'm no UX/UI maestro, but I've never enjoyed complicated tools - especially complicated OSS tools. Commercial-grade tools are better. Figma is sublime. An IDE for creatives should be simple, magical, and powerful. ArtCraft lets you drag and drop from a variety of creative canvases and an asset drawer easily. It's fast and intuitive. Bouncing between text-to-image for quick prototyping, image editing, 3d gen, to 3d compositing is fluid. It feels like "crafting" rather than prompting or node graph wizardry. ArtCraft, being a desktop app, lets us log you into 3rd party compute providers. I'm a big proponent of using and integrating the models you subscribe to wherever you have them. This has let us integrate WorldLabs' Marble Gaussian Splats, for instance, and nobody else has done that. My plan is to add every provider over time, including generic API key-based compute providers like FAL and Replicate. I don't care if you pay for ArtCraft - I just want it to be useful. Two disclaimers: ArtCraft is "fair source" - I'd like to go the Cockroach DB route and eventually get funding, but keep the tool itself 100% source available for people to build and run for themselves. Obsidian, but with source code. If we got big, I'd spend a lot of time making movies. Right now ArtCraft is tied to a lightweight cloud service - I don't like this. It was a choice so I could reuse an old project and go fast, but I intend for this to work fully offline soon. All server code is in the monorepo, so you can run everything yourself. In the fullness of time, I do envision a portable OSS cloud for various AI tools to read/write to like a Github for assets, but that's just a distant idea right now. I've written about roadmap in the repo: I'd like to develop integrations for every compute provider, rewrite the frontend UI/UX in Bevy for a fully native client, and integrate local models too.