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Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Which AI image generator is actually worth the money?

I've looked at about a dozen different image generators: - Nano Banana - Flux - Midjourney - GPT Image 2 - Firefly - Ideogram - Recraft - Leonardo - Canvas - Meta AI They all have their pluses and minuses but they all do a decent job. If I'm looking to spend thousands over a year on an image generator, what would you suggest. This would be mainly for business and a little for art.

Claude doesn't generate images?

New to Claude. It can't create images?

Small update today. Many requested a "anti-prompting" feature for V8 models (which existed in previous versions) which we call the --no flag. This is now available today in V8.1! So if you're trying t

Small update today. Many requested a "anti-prompting" feature for V8 models (which existed in previous versions) which we call the --no flag. This is now available today in V8.1! So if you're trying to get something out of your images (like people) try --no people. Have fun!

Midjourney Weekly Office Hours - 5/6 https://t.co/tadkDlmcPa

Midjourney Weekly Office Hours - 5/6 https://t.co/tadkDlmcPa

Two quick announcements - We've pushed an update that improves V8.1 image quality and sharpness, particularly with SREFs, moodboards and HD images, but you should notice it globally too! Secondly, V8

Two quick announcements - We've pushed an update that improves V8.1 image quality and sharpness, particularly with SREFs, moodboards and HD images, but you should notice it globally too! Secondly, V8.1 is now available on our main website as well as Discord. Enjoy! https://t.co/WOm4WHc4KQ

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Midjourney Weekly Office Hours - 4/29 https://t.co/ukywUDbh6F

Midjourney Weekly Office Hours - 4/29 https://t.co/ukywUDbh6F

I built a prompt library with 1,000+ prompts, these are the 2 I actually still use weekly

Quick disclosure, I created [PromptCreek](https://promptcreek.com/), a free prompt library. Putting that at the top so it's clear up front. Link is at the bottom, no paywall, no login to browse. The post itself is the value. I've spent the last two years writing, testing, and organizing prompts. We're at 1,200+ now across Claude, ChatGPT, Midjourney, and others. The funny thing is that out of all of them, I personally only reach for a handful weekly with Claude. Here are 2 I keep coming back to (I use more than these 2, but this post would be too long if i start pasting more prompts). Pasting the full text so you can copy/test them right now. Both use {{variables}} so you can plug in your specifics and reuse them indefinitely. **1. Competitive Intelligence Analysis** The pain this solves: I have scattered competitor data, pricing screenshots, half-read blog posts, LinkedIn announcements, random observations from sales calls. Synthesizing it into something I can actually act on usually takes hours. This prompt turns that mess into a real executive briefing in about 30 seconds. Not a wall of paragraphs an actual structured output with positioning analysis, strategic moves, threats/opportunities, and recommended actions split into "this week / this quarter / monitor closely." The prompt: # Role & Objective You are a Senior Business Analyst specializing in competitive intelligence and market research. Your role is to transform fragmented competitor information into a comprehensive strategic briefing that executives can act on immediately. # Context The user is tracking competitors but has scattered information: pricing screenshots, product announcements, blog posts, feature updates, funding news, and random observations. They need this synthesized into a structured analysis that reveals competitive positioning, strategic moves, and market implications without spending hours organizing the data themselves. # Inputs - **Primary competitor focus:** {{competitor-focus}} - **Analysis timeframe:** {{timeframe}} - **Strategic priority:** {{strategic-priority}} - **Raw competitor data:** (User will paste screenshots, notes, links, observations below) # Requirements & Constraints - **Tone:** Executive-ready, analytical, and actionable - **Depth:** Strategic insights with specific evidence and implications - **Format:** Scannable sections with clear headers and bullet points - **Focus:** Connect tactical moves to broader strategic patterns - **Assumption:** User needs insights for strategic planning, not just data compilation # Output Format ## Executive Summary - 3-sentence overview of key competitive developments - Primary strategic threat or opportunity identified ## Competitor Positioning Analysis ### [Competitor Name] - **Current positioning:** How they present themselves - **Target market shifts:** Who they're pursuing - **Value proposition changes:** What's different ## Recent Strategic Moves - **Product/Feature launches:** What they shipped and why it matters - **Pricing changes:** Strategic implications - **Marketing positioning:** Messaging shifts - **Partnership/Funding:** Resource advantages ## Competitive Threats & Opportunities - **Immediate threats:** What requires response in next 90 days - **Strategic gaps:** Where they're vulnerable - **Market opportunities:** Spaces they're leaving open ## Recommended Actions 1. **This week:** Immediate tactical responses 2. **This quarter:** Strategic positioning adjustments 3. **Monitor closely:** Key indicators to track # Examples **Example Input:** - Competitor focus: Direct SaaS competitors - Timeframe: Last 3 months - Priority: Product differentiation - Data: Screenshots of new pricing tiers, blog post about AI features, LinkedIn announcement of Series B **Example Output Would Include:** - Analysis: "Competitor X raised Series B to fund AI development, positioning against enterprise market with 40% price increase" - Threat: "New AI features directly compete with our core value prop" - Action: "Accelerate our AI roadmap announcement to maintain market perception" # Self-Check Before finalizing your analysis: - Have you connected tactical moves to strategic implications? - Are recommendations specific enough to act on this week? - Have you identified both threats AND opportunities? - Is the analysis based on evidence from the provided data? - Would an executive understand the competitive landscape after reading this? What makes it work: most "analyze my competitors" prompts get you prose. This one forces Claude into a fixed briefing structure and explicitly asks it to connect tactical moves (a pricing change, a feature launch) to strategic

ask questions here https://t.co/fBQbot10GL

ask questions here https://t.co/fBQbot10GL

Midjourney Weekly Office Hours - 4/22 https://t.co/w8ck4spfkZ

Midjourney Weekly Office Hours - 4/22 https://t.co/w8ck4spfkZ

Built an MCP server for publishing AI art zero-signup demo token, works in Claude Desktop in one line

tl;dr: `@vynly/mcp` — four tools for posting AI art to Vynly (an AI-only social feed), no signup required to try it. Add this to `claude_desktop_config.json`: { "mcpServers": { "vynly": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@vynly/mcp"], "env": { "VYNLY_TOKEN": "DEMO" } } } } Restart Claude. Ask it to make an image and post it. That's the whole install. --- ## Why I built it I kept trying to get Claude to "share" images it generated, and every path sucked: - Twitter/X API: agents get rate-limited or flagged as bots - Instagram: no usable API, scraping is TOS violation - Generic blob uploads: nothing renders them as a social post The real problem is that mainstream social networks are hostile to agents by design. So instead of fighting that, I built a feed specifically for agent-published AI images — Vynly. Then I built the MCP server so any MCP-aware client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Zed, Windsurf) can use it. ## The 4 tools - `vynly_post_image` — permanent post. Accepts a local path, a URL, or base64 bytes. Caption + hashtags optional. - `vynly_post_spark` — 24-hour ephemeral image (like a story). Same inputs, no caption. - `vynly_read_feed` — paginated public feed reader. Useful for "show me what other agents posted today." - `vynly_search` — search users, tags, posts. ## How the zero-signup thing works Most MCP servers force you through an OAuth dance or API-key provisioning before you can even see if the tools work. I hated that friction — you shouldn't have to commit to a service to try a 4-tool MCP server. So the server has a fallback: If `VYNLY_TOKEN=DEMO`, the first tool call hits a public endpoint `POST /api/agents/demo-token` and mints a capped agent-demo token (10 writes per IP per 24h). Subsequent calls reuse that token in-memory. If you want more, swap `DEMO` for a real `vln_...` token minted on the site. Same env var name, no config changes. The token code is ~15 lines: async function ensureToken(): Promise { if (TOKEN && TOKEN !== "DEMO") return TOKEN; const r = await fetch(`${BASE}/api/agents/demo-token`, { method: "POST" }); if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`Could not mint a demo token: HTTP ${r.status}`); const body = await r.json(); TOKEN = body.token; return TOKEN; } The server-side endpoint is rate-limited (one active demo token per IP per 24h) and posts go under a shared `agent-demo` handle, so abuse is bounded. ## Provenance verification (the weird bit) Vynly only accepts AI-generated images. Not by policy — by architecture. When an image lands, the server runs three checks in order: **C2PA manifest** — OpenAI, Adobe Firefly, and others embed signed provenance. **SynthID watermarks** — Google's invisible watermark in Imagen / Gemini outputs. **XMP DigitalSourceType** — the IPTC standard metadata tag. If none match AND you didn't pass `declaredSource`, the upload gets 422'd with a `NO_PROVENANCE` code. The declaredSource enum (15 generators: dalle, midjourney, flux, sd, etc.) is the escape hatch for tools that strip metadata. Agents self-declare; if they lie, server-side moderation catches obvious photographs via a separate NSFW/real-image classifier. This keeps the feed coherent without a moderation army. ## The Claude-specific gotcha I hit MCP's `ListToolsRequestSchema` handler runs with no auth — Claude calls it immediately after spawning the server to figure out what tools exist. If your tool-list handler throws (or blocks on auth), Claude silently hides the server. Mine used to eagerly mint the token at startup, which meant if the demo endpoint was slow, Claude would blank the tools. Fixed by deferring `ensureToken()` to the first CallTool — ListTools returns instantly from a static manifest. const server = new Server( { name: "vynly-mcp", version: "0.1.0" }, { capabilities: { tools: {} } }, // ({ tools: [ /* static list */ ], })); If your MCP server "doesn't show up" in Claude Desktop, 9/10 times it's because ListTools is throwing or slow. ## Also published to - Glama (AAA score): https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/Vovala14/vynly-mcp - Smithery, MCP Registry, mcp.so - Source: https://github.com/Vovala14/vynly-mcp Happy to answer questions about the MCP SDK specifics, the provenance pipeline, or the Glama AAA requirements (that was its own adventure — they want a Dockerfile, a LICENSE file, a SECURITY.md, a glama.json, and a GitHub release, in that priority order). If you try it and something breaks, drop a comment — I'll fix it tonight. submitted by /u/Nftdude2022 [link] [comments]

RT @AndyAyrey: midjourney is one of the only apps which works exactly the same in both dreams and waking life and i find this both fascinat…

RT @AndyAyrey: midjourney is one of the only apps which works exactly the same in both dreams and waking life and i find this both fascinat…

V8.1 is live! Our iconic aesthetics are back w native 2K HD rendering - 3x faster and 3x cheaper vs V8. Full quality V8.1 1K mode is faster than V7 draft mode. Image prompts are back. New "Describe" i

V8.1 is live! Our iconic aesthetics are back w native 2K HD rendering - 3x faster and 3x cheaper vs V8. Full quality V8.1 1K mode is faster than V7 draft mode. Image prompts are back. New "Describe" is live - and you'll love our new moodboards & srefs. More soon <3 https://t.co/rb86hu3oDo

I have started treating claude like a creative director instead of an assistant and the quality of my work jumped overnight

I think most people are using claude wrong for creative work and I was too until about a month ago when I accidentally stumbled into a completely different way of interacting with it the way I was using it before "claude write me a caption for this post" or "claude give me 5 ideas for a video about X" basically treating it like a vending machine where I put in a request and get back a finished thing. the results were always fine, technically correct nd clearly AI generated in that way where everything is competent but nothing has a pulse. the shift happened when I was working on a video project and I was stuck on the visual direction, I had raw footage that looked boring and I couldn't figure out what was missing, instead of asking claude to solve the problem I started describing the footage to it and asking it questions like what emotion should someone feel when they watch this and what's the visual language of that emotion . what it did was ask me questions back that forced me to think about my own creative intent more precisely than I'd been thinking about it, things like "you said you want it to feel nostalgic but nostalgic for what specifically, childhood or a relationship or a version of yourself, because those require different visual approaches". that one question completely changed the direction of the project, I realized I was going for a vague instead of a specific emotional target and that's why the footage felt flat. what i did was bring raw footage and a rough idea to claude and we have a conversation about what the piece should actually be before I touch any tools, then I take those creative decisions to midjourney for concept art or magic hour for style tests or premiere for the edit, the tools haven't changed but the thinking that goes into how I use them has completely changed because claude helps me interrogate my own creative instincts before I start executing the difference in my output is noticeable enough that a client last week said something changed in my work recently and I almost told them it's because I've been having creative direction conversations with an AI before every project but I decided to just say thanks lol. And theres no lesson in this i was just sharing my experience here ,hopefully i find more ways to improve myself through it anyone else shifted from using claude as an executor to using it as a creative collaborator and noticed a similar jump in quality submitted by /u/DangerousFlower8634 [link] [comments]

is AI making us better thinkers or just faster workers

I've been using claude daily for about 8 months now and something has been nagging at me that I want to talk about. when I first started using it I was genuinely thinking more, I'd use claude to challenge my assumptions and explore angles I hadn't considered and stress test ideas before committing to them, it felt like having a thinking partner that made my actual reasoning sharper. lately though I've noticed a shift in myself that I don't love, I've started going to claude brfore even I think instead of after, like I'll get a new project at work and instead of sitting with it for a while and forming my own perspective first I'll immediately open claude and say "here's the situation what should I consider" and whatever it gives me becomes the starting framework I work within. The difference is subtle but it matters, in the first version I'm using AI to refine thinking I've already done, in the second version I'm outsourcing the initial thinking entirely and just editing what comes back and those are very different cognitive processes even though the output might look similar. I noticed it most clearly last week when I was doing research for a client project, I had claude pull together an analysis and I was about to send it and then I stopped and asked myself do I actually agree with this or am I just sending it because it sounds smart and I didn't have to think hard to produce it and I genuinely couldn't tell which one it was and that scared me a little. I think there's a version of using claude that makes you sharper and a version that makes you lazier and the line between them is just whether you're thinking first and using AI to go further or skipping the thinking entirely because the AI can produce something passable without it. I do a lot of creative work too, video stuff for clients where I use midjourney for concepts and kling, magic hour and runway for motion references, and I see the same pattern there, when I have a clear creative vision and use the tools to execute it faster the work is great, when I open the tools with no vision and just see what comes out the work is mediocre even though it looks polished. curious if anyone else has caught themselves making this shift and whether you've found a way to stay on the "better thinker" side instead of sliding into the "faster worker" side because I think it's one of the most important questions about how we use these tools and nobody's really talking about it submitted by /u/Major_Cable_8079 [link] [comments]