Product Weekend Apr 2025
Two days before my product weekend in April, OpenAI released the Image API gpt-image-1 model, which drove tons of traffic when they released the image-generating tools through ChatGPT. This allows you to generate AI images without access to ChatGPT.I immediately thought of building a tool to utilise the API for generating images, but I was considering that I might need to add a unique selling point for it; however, that can wait until after the product weekend.
My #ProductWeekend Apr 2025 - build a tool to generate AI images for teams using the latest #Openai image API gpt-image-1#productweekend #buildinpublic
— Knight (@imknight) April 25, 2025
So, the idea for my product weekend is to have a one-page site that allows users to enter prompts and select styles to create images. Using the PHP OpenAI library did work, but it didn’t allow me to track token usage, so in the end, I settled on a direct API request.
My #ProductWeekend Apr 2025 end
— Knight (@imknight) May 4, 2025
I build a tool that generates images based on the #openAI Image Generation API. The demo is pretty basic, but I’m going to show it to potential clients. The idea is to enhance this tool for team use.#productweekend #buildinpublic #imagegpt… pic.twitter.com/Ly2CUwDGFg
The demo work for the product weekend took slightly longer than a weekend, but I'm pretty happy with the demo I built. It’s a bit rough, but it works. I'm calling it ImageGPT for now and will wait until I find the product's USP to get a new name for it.