An anime concubine in japanese kimono driking from a traditional japanese alcohol bottle
Why Goonsai exists
Yes the video is clickbait. This is exactly how this idea started.
When open source video models were released, it was clear, it wont run even on my beefy GPU workstation that costs over 8,000 US$. I tried a few services…this was my experience.
- service 1 - do these 5 things… and maybe we let you generate.
- service 2 - put 5$ credit. I did. Prompt
an arabic sailor in the high seas looks through the sextant. Service said “Inappropriate” and gave me nothing. Funny this, I translate it in Chinese and it went through. Ofcourse I cant prompt in another language so this isn’t tenable. - service 3 - same as above but gave me no video and charged me for it anyway.
- others - We can do it, you see an example, but they dont actually have the service. That’s the clickbait
- These days - Image to video, but you cant use your own picture. What I cant be ironman…FUUUUU
I don’t want gimmicks, I am ready to pay, why is this so hard.
It took me 2 days to get it to work, I just made my own service complete with Hardware & software. It just works.
People signed up to back the development and then it was ready for public release.
And so this is how Goonsai.com came to be.
8 months later…
Today, videos generate in 3-4 minutes, understand prompts better and deliver great quality and fluid motion. I have opensource contributions to AI model for generating prompts and over time I have developed custom models to improve prompt understanding. It is possible for you to generate locally if you have time and money and patience and willing to put hundreds if not thousands of hours into it. Oh yes, buy an RTX 5090 system at the very least and good luck.
I deliberately made the service 1-1 and no middleman. i.e. All data is deleted and videos are sent to your phone via telegram. It was always the case.
It’s not bad luck that allowed another video/image generation service to leak their user data including all private pictures and videos. Turns out every generation they did was publicly accessible. Not here, once delivered, keep nothing. No Big cloud, No data analysis, nothing. A scrub is done every set number of generations of all systems. It deletes everything and returns to state of zero.
Your data is your own and private, there is no “trust me bro”. Because payment is managed by a secure 3rd party like Stripe, even I, who builds and maintains the systems, have no direct way of knowing anything about you or what you generate and link to who you are. The backers share their interests, feedback on shortcomings etc via direct communication channels and that’s how I know what’s working and what’s not. The rest is just metrics.
Stay Safe, Stay Private.