Jose M.

I'm not an engineer. Just building with AI until something works. Welcome to the chaos. 💥

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

I’m not an engineer.
I just build messy tools with AI until something clicks.
Most days it's broken.
Some days it works.
Either way, I’m sharing it all. 💥

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@Emarky Nice! Share the setup please!🙌

[Carlos Santana @DotCSV]

Lo dije según lo probé y me pareció que no se le estaba dando la importancia que merecía, pero el Motion Control de Kling 2.6 es una locura de lo bien que funciona!

Qué ganas de tener una alternativa con calidad similar open source

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

"Las transformaciones sistémicas no nacen de grandes gestos heroicos, sino de miles de pequeñas decisiones acumuladas."
— Kate Raworth, economista creadora del modelo Economía Rosquilla

¿Conoces el concepto kaizen? Es la filosofía japonesa de mejora continua: 1% mejor cada día s

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@JulianGoldieSEO YES

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@SimslearnAi Detalle

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@perezreverte @sanchezcastejon ¡Un hideput* es lo que es! Como diría uno que yo me sé… 🗡️ Este fantoche podría meterse sus “consejos” por salva sea la parte y practicar esa política útil que escucha a los ciudadanos, que le dicen —cada día y en todos los husos horarios— que se pire ya de una vez.

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@unbelievable_ai WANT

[Usra Chowdhury @Usra_Chaudhry0]

We hit $230K in 28 days with one product.

No paid ads.
No content team.

Just 18 TikTok accounts & Mass UGC running 24/7.
348 AI videos/day.

All auto-posted.
To get it;
Like & RT +Comment “WANT” and I’ll send the system.

Must be Following

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@Zephyr_hg NEWS

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@Marcilenyaraa @davidwillam33 n8n

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@levelsio I’ve been following you for over 2 years, and it’s been an inspiring journey. Thanks for sharing! Even though it can feel a bit overwhelming at times 😅 to see the pace you move at compared to the rest of us (or at least me), I always end up learning something

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@levelsio

[@levelsio @levelsio]

✨ Photo AI just reached a new record of $150,000/mo

💳 2,573 active subscribers

💸 87% profit margin

👌 100% bootstrapped + $0 funding

😊 Employees: 1 = just me on my laptop

🥞 Tech: PHP + jQuery + SQLite on a Hetzner VPS with Nginx and Ubuntu

It took 2 years, 7 months, 14 days, or almost 1000 days to get there

Photo AI started out in 2022 as Avatar AI (the first app to make those gimmicky avatars which started that trend)

Then I pivoted it into Photo AI a year later to take real AI photos of yourself. Because I thought that might be possible next. In a way I was way too early and the photos were actually pretty bad for about 2 years (remember the hands?). Faces were distorted and it didn't resemble you much. I used Stable Diffusion back then and it was the best model but it wasn't so good at people. But with a lot of help from @philz1337x I then built a giant pipeline of models on top of other models to fix faces, hands, and bodies and upscaling it to make it look somewhat good, but still it wasn't great

In a way I had product-market-fit (PMF) but without the product. Because I knew the demand would be there but the product, well the technology, definitely wasn't there (yet!)

Then in 2024, a new AI image model called Flux was launched and overnight Photo AI was now good enough: the photos actually really resembled you, the quality was high and hands, faces and bodies looked real

I now did have PMF!

Since then Photo AI has grown a lot and it's now become a highly realistic AI photo and video production studio for content that features real people. There's other AI image generators, but they're not as good with people as mine, because that's my focus and niche

Photo AI is now used by fashion designers (to try on clothes), ad makers (for talking videos), marketers (to show people presenting physical products), education companies (to teach people courses), short film makers (making videos with real actors) and game designers (to create 3d characters from people)

And even just people who want to do a photo shoot for their social media profile or dating app and can't afford an expensive $1000 photographer (you get 1000 pics for $49, so about 20x-50x cheaper)

The app itself is standing on the shoulders of giants, that I am grateful every day for, which are the countless AI models I use and combine which are made by companies like Black Forest Labs, Bytedance, Kuaishou and more recently Google (with Nano Banana) made by very smart AI researchers and my GPU providers FAL and Wavespeed hosting them reliably

When I started people kept telling me I just made a "GPT wrapper" (of course it didn't even use ChatGPT), then a "Flux wrapper". I now use a lot more models than Flux, so yes I guess it's more like "shitloads of models duct taped together with a lot of frontend and backend logic added wrapper" but that doesn't roll of the tongue so easily 😂

Most of my traffic comes from SEO and specifically pSEO, there's a lot of sub pages I added (like the photo packs and individual phtoos) which capture a lot of traffic and sign ups. X is about 9% of traffic and even less of paid signups, so a lot less than people usually think. I'm mostly on here to tell my story, X doesn't actually help so much revenue wise. Increasingly ChatGPT etc is becoming a bigger referrer of traffic and paid signups though

There's so many other AI apps out there, and mostly we all use the same models, and I guess Photo AI shows there is enough pie for everyone, it's not the biggest either, but it's big for me and it's nice in its own way and I get happy working on it

It's been a wild ride, and stressful at times (especially during 2023 trying to get Stable Diffusion to work), but mostly just really exciting to be able to work with groundbreaking technology every day and get paid for it too

I remember in 2021 with my businesses Nomad List and Remote OK sitting and thinking "after almost a decade coding, everything is finally kind of stable now, now I am satisfied" but then the AI wave started in mid 2022 and I just knew I had to jump on it and catch that wave and I did with my entire being :D

And I caught it I think!

🏄‍♂️ Surf's uppppppppp 🤠

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@oscar_puente_ Viniendo de ti que eres un experto en la materia, es una opinión a tener en cuenta...y no, no hablo de transportes, en ese campo todos sabemos ya de tu absoluta incompetencia. Pero los retrasos (en todas sus acepciones) en eso no hay quien te "tuesa". Ya va quedando menos 🥀

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@DotCSV Podrías explicar un poco mas en profundidad esto: "Pero si programo una escena interactiva bien construida" ¿como lo has hecho o que prompt has usado en este caso para conseguirlo? Gracias!

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@DotCSV Me encanta, dan ganas de ponerse a investigar, programar o resolver problemas…
Hasta que te topas con el absurdo límite de consultas cada 5 horas😅.

Anyway, el anuncio es una pasada 👌

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@SuperViiral Es muy triste, si hay alguna manera de ayudar seria, es decir, que no acabe yendo el dinero a lo mismo, estaría bien saberlo

[Jose M. @JoseMBuilds]

@oscar_puente_ No engañáis a nadie ya con estos datos falseados tan burdamente¿Comentamos la evolución del poder adquisitivo y comparamos el esfuerzo que supone el acceso a bienes básicos como la vivienda en ambos países? Di algo de lo que esta pasando con los trenes o cierra la puta boca RATA