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Over the past month, I built Styleloop, a solo side project that uses AI to transform images into stylized artworks. The primary focus is image-to-image transformation, with curated styles like Ghibli, pixel art, Animal Crossing, and more.

It’s my first real SaaS project, and honestly, the process changed how I think about building and shipping products. From backend to payments to UI polish — doing it all solo was exhausting and incredibly rewarding.

Styleloop was built with Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, and Cloudflare. I plan to keep improving it and add more creative modes.

I'd love your feedback on whether you’re into AI x creativity or solo hacking projects!

Thanks for checking it out!

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danbars · 2d ago

Nice, but I think pricing model should not be a monthly subscription. Most people need these things occasionally or for some project that they're working on. I'd consider non-expiring credits purchase. I know it's not MRR, but I think it has a better chance getting people to pay.

WenbinFan · 2d ago

I used AI a lot during dev.

ChatGPT (4o) is used for planning and single-file tasks, and Cursor for multi-file code editing.

Most of the basic code was AI-generated; I just reviewed and adjusted. It sped things up, even things like generating i18n files were mainly automated.

cebert · 2d ago

How do you plan to position this as a product when people can do the same thing with their existing ChatGPT subscription?

WenbinFan · 2d ago

Good question!

Styleloop keeps it simple: upload a photo, pick a style, and done. The biggest difference is that there are no rate limits like ChatGPT has. You can generate freely with credits.

cebert · 1d ago

Good response!

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