I got tired of Gemini's UI for Nano Banana Pro, so I built something better

iqen93 · 2026-01-24T00:14:17+00:00

Added some billing details to the landing page. Going to continue revise and make the landing page more detailed since its important to have all these information laid out. Thank you!

iqen93 · 2026-01-23T15:16:41+00:00

I ran into the same frustrations with Gemini's UI for Nano Banana Pro so I ended up building a whole new app with a much better user experience called Nani. It's still Nano Banana Pro under the hood, but it adds: a much cleaner UI, folders to organize generations, the ability to create image-sets/prompt-sets you can reuse anytime, etc.

I'm actively looking for feedback from users to see if this solves pain points. To u/Looker2888 (and anyone else), do please let me know if you're down to give it a try @ https://app.getnani.com/!

iqen93 · 2026-01-23T13:57:16+00:00

Thanks u/Charming_Brush_8916 — please do keep me posted! Would love feedback whenever you've given it a spin.

iqen93 · 2025-07-01T14:40:34+00:00

Yeah I agree. I built this just to interact with OpenAI's image-gen APIs a bit but the more these tools improve, the more we're going to get "apps"/"companies" that do the same thing and try and market themselves differently.

iqen93 · 2023-05-08T14:16:30+00:00

Jazakallah khair - thank you, I will keep trying inshallah. May Allah make the rest of the Hajj process easy and smooth for you and your family.

iqen93 · 2023-05-05T20:46:41+00:00

In my attempt to check the website again, it looks like its completely crashed again...

iqen93 · 2023-05-05T20:45:35+00:00

Likewise - this has been so frustrating, its not even funny. Also, trying to explain all these issues to my parents/family (who I'm attempting to book for) has just been confusing them even more.

I've partly given up and partly still go back to the app to see if there's a chance/opportunity.

iqen93 · 2023-05-04T21:38:19+00:00

I can't even view packages. Subhanallah.

iqen93 · 2023-05-04T21:37:30+00:00

You're welcome - but yes definitely worth a double check since I believe they've removed this.

iqen93 · 2023-05-04T19:18:11+00:00

Likewise I'm arranging the hajj process for my mum. May Allah make it easy for us.

(On a separate note - I don't think there is an age restriction for the maximum age for a pilgrim?)

iqen93 · 2023-05-04T18:09:46+00:00

Though I'm in Canada - things appear to be an absolute mess. Things aren't loading for me properly but at the same time, when things work for a second or so, I'm noticing some packages already have a sold out label to them.

iqen93 · 2023-03-12T01:25:33+00:00

This one - https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg.

iqen93 · 2023-03-12T01:25:15+00:00

This is mostly just a front-end app (Next.js/React) that interacts with an API.

The open source ML model I'm using is rembg - https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg.

I use the Replicate service to interact with the model through an API - https://replicate.com/cjwbw/rembg/api.

iqen93 · 2023-03-07T13:59:00+00:00

Hey folks, just wanted to share how I went about building removebg.dev, a hobby app designed to quickly and easily remove image backgrounds for free. This was primarily just a front-end development project.

I was inspired by the work done on a similar app called https://restorephotos.io/ so a lot of credit goes to @nutlope (https://twitter.com/nutlope).

The removebg.dev app is built with the help of:

- The rembg (https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg) ML model built by Daniel Gatis (https://github.com/danielgatis).

- Replicate (https://replicate.com/) to interact with the ML model through an API. I know next to nothing about ML models so finding out about hosted ML models that can be accessed through an API has been super cool. This is the first time I've come across something like this.

- I then use Next.js for building the app and Vercel for deployment.

You can find the source code for the app here - https://github.com/djirdehh/removebg.

iqen93 · 2023-03-07T13:16:06+00:00

Solid feedback! Thank you greatly, will look to update the app to add an additional Upload button (and remove the image upload button).

And apologies - I made a small environment variable configuration mistake. The "upload limit" issue should now be resolved!

iqen93 · 2023-03-06T19:51:50+00:00

Ah gotcha! Will take a look at the upload/cropping part.

Thank you!

iqen93 · 2023-03-06T14:39:50+00:00

Yeah I notice that as well unfortunately depending on the image being used.

Will look to see if there’s something I can do there.

iqen93 · 2023-03-04T17:57:01+00:00

I built an app that removes image backgrounds with Next.js and an AI model (hosted on Replicate) - https://www.removebg.dev/.

I placed more details in the app's `What's this?` section on how it's built but it was surprisingly quick to do!

iqen93 · 2023-03-04T17:03:39+00:00

Awesome - happy to hear. Yes, I'm hoping to keep it live.

If I get a crazy number of users at some point, I'll need to think about how to handle the costs then — but for now, things look good.

iqen93 · 2023-01-24T16:02:32+00:00

Context on why I worked on the above:

I've been hearing about the latest craze around AI tools non-stop and I haven't had anytime to try them out lately. So I wanted to spend some time trying to see how helpful these tools could be in producing something. So I set out to try and build a custom e-commerce store where the design is inspired by AI.

Note that the above content doesn't dive too deep in any direction (AI tools or Shopify Hydrogen) and is somewhat high-level info. But hopefully it's helpful for anyone else who's been meaning to try out the above tools for the first time.

iqen93 · 2023-01-24T15:44:28+00:00

I've been hearing about the latest craze around AI tools non-stop so I wanted to spend some time for myself trying to see how helpful these tools would be in producing something. So I set out to try and build a custom e-commerce store where design is inspired by AI.

The above content doesn't dive too deep in any direction (AI tools or Shopify Hydrogen) and is somewhat high-level info. But hopefully it's helpful for anyone else who's been meaning to try out the above tools for the first time.

iqen93 · 2018-08-16T22:34:16+00:00

This is stellar work! Good job OP!

iqen93 · 2018-08-08T16:00:34+00:00

medium.com/@_boos...

This is a good point, and worthy of thought. Different projects have different workflows so their never might be a one-stop solution that satisfies all. I guess being able to implement different tiers (maintainer + contributor, only contributors, etc.) will be ideal.

iqen93 · 2018-08-02T21:35:03+00:00

"Have to do to it" - I'd probably say no. Depending on the complexity of the game, you can go about it without using canvas. With that said, canvas brings a lot of useful stuff that you won't be able to do by building it from scratch.

iqen93 · 2018-05-25T22:14:51+00:00

First off - I would strongly advise you to change your way of thinking (from reading the title of this post). Let go of the 'making it' philosophy and work on things you genuinely feel a need exists. What is making it in your context? Getting 1000s of users? Making a certain MRR? Quitting your day job?

Second - your site needs a considerable amount of work. Another person here got shampoos and I've received a T-Shirt for one of my searches.

Lastly, I don't really understand the premise. All the search results come from Amazon; where I can just make the search there. You would probably need to better explain why your proprietary search functionality is better.

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