Ask HN: Would you pay for AI art on a T-shirt?

[bensampson]

With AI as hot as it is right now, and AI art having (kind of) an aesthetic all its own, I get the feeling that this startup has a high potential value to effort ratio. An MVP would be: - user submits a prompt and an art style - pre-trained model responds with AI artwork - user selects an artwork - size, colour, add to cart, checkout - use printing service and API to dropship the shirt This type of MVP should only take 60-100 hours to build depending on how tuned the model is towards generating good looking tees. What are your thoughts?

[muragekibicho]

You better ship your MVP ASAP to determine if people are willing to pay. This girl shipped the exact thing - AI designs printed on shirts - about two months ago. I checked today and her site is offline. She claims to be working on something else. Perhaps she failed - and that's fine.

The website https://www.dreamweaverai.com/

[NicoleJO]

If you knew anything about art, you'd know nobody wants a billion-fingered freak plastered across their chest!

[rman666]

No. But then again I don’t really buy any artsy t-shirts. Doesn’t everyone already get so many free promotional items shirts that they can barely close their dresser drawers?

[999900000999]

No.

Why not use Dalle to generate the image, and then print it yourself.

AI images aren't honestly all that great, I wouldn't want to pay to get it printed

[x11vnc4life]

No, id rather support the real artist directly

[brianjking]

no, because on demand printing is garbage.

[rman666]

No