An AI Creation Product Is More Than a Model Picker

Description and use

<p>The first version of an AI creation product is easy to imagine.</p> <p>Add a prompt box, connect a model API, wait for a result, and put a download button underneath it.</p> <p>That is enough for a demo. It is not enough for a product.</p> <p>While building <a href="https://sceneflare.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">SceneFlare</a>, an AI image and video creation platform, I kept running into the same gap. Users do not arrive with provider-shaped questions. They do not want to decide which API payload should contain a source image, how a callback should be retried, or why one model calls a s

Problem

<p>The first version of an AI creation product is easy to imagine.</p> <p>Add a prompt box, connect a model API, wait for a result, and put a download button underneath it.</p> <p>That is enough for a demo. It is not enough for a product.</p> <p>While building <a href="https://sceneflare.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">SceneFlare</a>, an AI image and video creation platform, I kept running into the same gap. Users do not arrive with provider-shaped questions. They do not want to decide which API payload should contain a source image, how a callback should be retried, or why one model calls a s

Outcome

<p>The first version of an AI creation product is easy to imagine.</p> <p>Add a prompt box, connect a model API, wait for a result, and put a download button underneath it.</p> <p>That is enough for a demo. It is not enough for a product.</p> <p>While building <a href="https://sceneflare.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">SceneFlare</a>, an AI image and video creation platform, I kept running into the same gap. Users do not arrive with provider-shaped questions. They do not want to decide which API payload should contain a source image, how a callback should be retried, or why one model calls a s

Evidence

An AI Creation Product Is More Than a Model Picker

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