Hey guys, thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my app, MemeCam, an app that can understand the context of photos and generate relevant and funny captions for them.
The results are sometimes super funny, other times strange or completely awkward. It all depends on what you snap a picture of, and mood of the AI, I guess!
I was really excited to build this app, because I love memes and I love making people laugh even more.
Given the hefty cost of image captioning service I built the app with subscription at first. But we all hate subscriptions, so I changed it to be free with optional donation/tipping. There are ads which can be turned off with a one time fee, too. Hope this old-school model is still sustainable financially.
How does it work?
You snap a picture, which is sent to an image captioning service (Replicate) and based on the caption, it uses OpenAI to generate a meme for it.
You can get it here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memecam-memes-by-ai/id6447441001
I would love to have your feedback!
Just wondering what’s actually happening behind the scenes here. I used it first with data/wifi enabled, it took around 40 seconds to process and caption a picture (raccoon image)
Then I turned on Airplane mode and used a different image (Kevin James) and it generated a captioned image instantly - so are there pre-baked captions written by you as well?
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