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NightCafe?
BUILD FIRST
- A non-sensitive or read-only version of the core experience
- A manual review step wherever correctness or trust matters
- A narrow companion tool that removes a real piece of work
LEAVE FOR LATER
- Regulated decisions, payments, or irreversible actions
- Claims of correctness, compliance, or uptime that the MVP cannot support
- Sensitive integrations until security, support, and auditability are ready
RESEARCH NOTES
What this tool actually does.
NightCafe is an AI art generation platform that aggregates hundreds of AI image models—including Flux, GPT Image, Seedream, Nano Banana, DALL-E 3, and SDXL—into a single web interface. Its free AI Image Generator page allows creation without login or payment, with no queues for free users. The core workflow is: choose a model, enter a text prompt, adjust settings, generate in seconds, then download or refine the result. The platform also supports text-to-video, prompt-based image editing, and multi-image fusion. NightCafe awards daily free credits and runs official daily AI art challenges, rewarding community participation. It offers web and mobile apps with cross-device sync. A help center and an AI models guide document the available models and recommended use cases. NightCafe monetizes via paid credits for premium models and features, though many models remain free.
RESEARCHED BUILD PROMPT
Give this to your coding agent.
Build a focused replacement for NightCafe, a multi-model AI image generator. The core workflow: a user lands on a creation page, selects an AI model from a catalog (e.g., SDXL, Flux, and one or two smaller open models), types a text prompt, adjusts common settings (aspect ratio, quality/step count, seed, number of images), clicks Generate, sees a progress state, then views the finished image with download and 'edit prompt and rerun' actions. Also include a lightweight user system with daily free credits and a simple public gallery of recently created images. Technical approach: use Next.js (App Router) for the frontend/API routes, route model inference through a provider like Replicate or fal.ai behind a unified adapter interface, store users, credit balances, and image metadata in Postgres with Prisma, and upload finished images to S3-compatible storage. Use a job queue (e.g., BullMQ or QStash) for asynchronous generation, and polling or webhooks to update results. UI should be clean, utilitarian, and not resemble the original brand; do not copy NightCafe's name, logo, color scheme, or layout. Explicitly out of scope: video generation, prompt-based image editing, multi-image fusion, mobile apps, paid subscriptions, and community challenges. Deliver a README covering setup (env vars, migration, seed script), how to add a new model adapter, and important limitations (rate limits, provider latency, credit abuse prevention being minimal).