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BlinkShot
An open source real-time AI image generator. Powered by Juggernaut Lightning Flux through Together.ai.
Tech stack
- Juggernaut Lightning Flux from RunDiffusion for the image model
- Together AI for inference
- Next.js app router with Tailwind
- Braintrust for image-generation tracing and observability
- Plausible for website analytics
Cloning & running
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/Nutlope/blinkshot - Create a
.env.localfile and add your Together AI API key:TOGETHER_API_KEY= - Run
npm installandnpm run devto install dependencies and run locally
Future Tasks
- Show a download button so people can get their images
- Add auth and rate limit by email instead of IP
- Show people how many credits they have left
- Build an image gallery of cool generations w/ their prompts
- Add replay functionality so people can replay consistent generations
- Add a setting to select between steps (2-5)