At the same time Startup Hustle culture is backwhen “locked in“Tech founders are embracing it too”996“The way it works – 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week – there’s something dystopian about using an AI application to generate your fake holiday.
And yet, here we are.
Product Designer Laurent Kingwho recently joined MalaTentelIgence Lab, launching a side project called Endless summerphotoBooth app for iPhone that creates AI-generated vacation photos of you in locations around the world. Here you explore a beach town, or see a European city from your balcony. There you can go shopping, eat with friends, or socialize.
It doesn’t look like anyone in the photo is talking about AI or entrepreneurship or sleep deprivation.
King’s Ace explained When sharing is launched on X, the new application is for when “Burnout hits and you need to share the soft life you deserve.”
(If you can’t live, you might as well fake it, right?)
The product’s designer told Techcrunch that he was inspired to create the app because summer is his favorite season, and he loves how life is during that time.
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“As the season ends, I want to create something that feels like that. It’s from that feeling, I reverse engineered the experience,” he said. “I created an Xcode project and started using it right from there, adhering to the code experience, so to speak.”
The experience it provides is a simple user interface where the camera preview button is at the bottom of the screen. You tap a button to create an AI-generated “summer” photo. When you click, the photo is displayed on the screen, with the view of the camera’s camera. Each photo features you, or rather an AI version of you, exploring the world and looking content while doing so.
Behind the scene, the nano-banana-mangu image does the heavy lifting, as the app asks for models for a variety of summer photo variations.
The app doesn’t save your selfies, it says, unless you’ve turned on the Optional Generation Generation mode. In addition, the user can delete the account at any time with just two tapes, which delete everything.
While Nano-Banana is quite cheap, the cost is worth it. For that reason, you can’t generate unlimited photos for free with unlimited summer. However, you’ll hit the paywall after the first six images, with payment options suggesting even earlier.
It’s not too expensive if you’re just looking to print a personal image out of curiosity – or because you’ve missed your summer vacay this year.
It’s $3.99 to make 30 pictures, $17.99 for 150, and $34.99 for 300. You can enable or disable the “Room Service” that is sent to you every morning, displaying the latest summer. You can also set your gender in the application or leave the mode (“automatic”), and enable or disable the option that can be used for the AII camera image to play the iPhone camera.
A new option in the app allows you to generate Halloween photos instead of summer photos, which feature you in various costumes.
The photo itself has a vintage film aesthetic, which seems like the casual lifestyle it should be. That brings a sense of nostalgia to the app, as it strives for a mid-2000s feel.
This represents another modern trend around online photos. What implements retro technology, like Zoomer that carries a camera that can be used, or sends Blurry pics, is the desire among some versions that are less curated, less “technically perfect”.
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