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I’m curious why you don’t think tattoo shops would want this as a monthly expense? $30/mo is cheap to give customers the ability to easily generate designs. Like another commenter said in this thread, good artists are often booked months out and that’s just to get the design started. Make a simple app that shows the UI in kiosk mode on an iPad using the store’s account. Even offer a finetuning service that they can use with photos of their own designs to get a unique style per customer (I’ve successfully finetuned myself with under 20 photographs, although style might be better with 50-100).

The other big benefit of tattoo shops is that they’re a well established type of business that you can sell to, instead of trying to market to consumers. First thing I’d do is buy a list of tattoo parlors and their contact information from InfoGroup/Data Axle/Dun & Bradstreet and start cold contacting them with a free month so they can try it out. I’d monitor the demos and reach out to those who don’t use their free month much to get feedback and refresh the demo period so they can try again. There are conventions where you can sell to the owners and artists en masse too. Google says there are over 20,000 stores in the US which is enough scale to just have a few GPUs to handle base load and autoscale during peak to drive costs down.

I think it can be a very lucrative lifestyle business to someone with good distribution and sales sense, just as long as some VC doesn’t come in and prop up a better resourced competitor.