Как я заработал $100K за 2 недели с помощью инструмента AI для портретных фото

Danny's first Stable Diffusion product was Stock AI, an AI generated stock photo library. He built it, ran it, then abandoned it before HeadshotPro existed. He describes this in a written interview with Unite.AI, not in his own writing.

Two reasons in his own account: the generated images were not good enough, and he expected a legal fight with the incumbent stock libraries over image rights.

ProfilePicture.AI, the product between Stock AI and HeadshotPro, sold well for about a week on the back of a Twitter spike, then faded. This is his account in the Unite.AI interview.

It was a novelty buy. Once the initial excitement passed, sales fell and he treated that as the signal to pivot again rather than to keep pushing the same product.

Deep Agency, the synthetic modelling agency built on the same photo technology, launched alongside HeadshotPro and became the press story of the two. Note that he describes the launches as simultaneous while his own tweets put them ten days apart, 6 and 16 March 2023.

Coverage did not convert. TechCrunch, PetaPixel and others wrote about the synthetic models angle, but the attention did not turn into paying customers, while HeadshotPro sold immediately.

He stayed solo on HeadshotPro longer than he should have. In the Unite.AI interview he names the fear of hiring as the reason he kept automating around himself instead of bringing people in.

His own verdict on the delay, given roughly a year after launch, is that it cost him time and that the team does work he could not have done himself.