[hgezim]

They’re huge. I’m sure their toilet paper rolls are make of $16k bills

I used to worry that the biggest threat was them releasing an API.

I’ve since learned that they won’t do that because they charge monthly fees to their customers and when a customer doesn’t use their credits, the credits don’t roll over and Midjourney pockets the cash.

Pay per use is bad for their business model.

[0xdeadbeefbabe]

Based on your growth rate they'll have more toilet paper in the future though. It would be interesting to try to discover a way to coexist, and I wonder if everyone at Midjourney hates you with equal passion or if some are sympathetic or even see value.

[hgezim]

I was really hoping to build out an amazing API product and when time came where they want to release one it would make more sense to acquire us. Alas.

[ahazred8ta]

Being a wise and thoughtful business owner, you already ran this concept by your own corporate attorney to get a written legal opinion before circumventing their TOS, right? ... No??

IMHO, stop calling yourself a Midjourney API of any kind and stop providing a service that uses Midjourney as a backend. You are not authorized to run Midjourney jobs using other people's account credentials; that's the TOS violation. Your lawyer will explain this to you.

[hgezim]

Yup, sure did. Just like I check with HR when I pass notes to my self on Slack where I'm the only member