Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters

[akashbangad]

Glimora is a comic generator which creates comics with AI, You generate one scene at a time and the scene has audio narration and an comic panel. You choose what happens next in the story

[imdsm]

I wrote a thing, and clicked go, and had to sign in. Sigh -- fine okay.

Signed in. It sent me back and lost my prompt. Sigh -- fine okay.

Wrote it again, clicked go, and it said ran out of credits, and sent me to billing.

I can see it's a Claude-built app but this just shows the importance of UX.

Because the UX here, sucks!

[akashbangad]

Thanks for the feedback, Totally agree about the UX. I have pushed a fix and it should be live in some time.

[wedn3sday]

Clicked on one of the comics to see how the images came out and it immediately started playing audio. Auto playing media equals an instant tab closure never to return.

[akashbangad]

I have fixed this issue, should be live in some time. Thanks for the feedback

[peyloride]

What the hell is the pricing? You can't see the prices unless you create an account & login. I was eager to try this out but with this attitude, big no.

[Disposal8433]

Can you explain why would someone pay for this? The price is hidden (sneaky) but with uBlock I see it's $8 or more every month. I can buy any comic from the past 60 years at that price.

[liuliu]

That's the point of experiments right? From my own experience, I found these who use image / video generators are mainly in e-comm and advertisement. Only recently creative works (such as YouTubers) start to use these (they were early adopters for audio / speech generation, and lipsync. But image / video generators, even just for YouTube thumbnails are recent phenomenon).

[codedokode]

Those who want to make an advertisement comic?

[Hoasi]

Indeed it's better to buy comics to help real artists pay their bills while their work is "democratised".

[jug]

The only problem is that the generated comics have typos and seem to make little sense.. They’re just kind of setting up a story?

Edit: Oh, I missed the choose your adventure aspect to them, so what’s on the front page are just samples of what you can do, and how a start of a story can look like if someone had already made the choices for you? I guess I have to pay to choose outcomes myself and continue the stories.

[akashbangad]

Yes the ones on the front page are the stories that have been generated with a prompt and continued by choosing what happens next. here is a demo video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNXXMbyhNeU

[tmaly]

This is pretty cool. Have you seen anyone do this consistency with vector image format?

[akashbangad]

Very excited to share this tool with everyone of you, This is choose your own adventure style comic generator where you choose what happens next in the story. I am open to feedback. Browsing the comics generated by others if free and generating comics is a paid feature.

[Anduia]

Do not click ABOUT link, it is his personal profile in linkedin

[akashbangad]

since the project is an indie developer project, LinkedIn seem okay for about section. But I took the feedback and instead added a page for the about section

[bilater]

nice - i'd switch off the autoplay (or use latets state of play/pause) on navigation as it can be annoying for some users who dont want the audio.

[akashbangad]

Yeah got a lot of feedback around this, Fix is pushed should be live in some time

[xdennis]

It's so sad to see people embracing AI slop like it's normal.