AI Product Photography that doesn't suck!
New build, short and practical: an AI product photo studio for a candle brand, about 6 cents a photo. The stack: - Mobile-first front end: pick a photo, choose layout + aspect ratio, type a one-line prompt. - n8n workflow: webhook fires, an agent expands the one-liner into a full prompt tuned for the image model. - Image model: Google Nano Banana 2, run through KIE.AI (a marketplace that resells model usage well below retail). - Poll until the job finishes, download the image, push it to a self-hosted open-source image server, serve it back to the app. - Approve to publish: the photo lands in a wholesale partner portal so retail stores can pull assets themselves. Cost breakdown: about 6 cents per image to generate, under a penny for the prompt expansion (GPT-4o mini). The lesson I keep relearning: the unglamorous half (getting assets to retail partners) is usually the half that actually saves the client time. Build for the whole workflow, not just the cool part. Want the template? Say so and I will post it. Built something similar? Show me.