Clipdrop

USER REALITY (48 HackerNews comments; top 25 by upvotes shown, thread context is Stability AI's acquisition of Clipdrop from Init ML). Hands-on verdicts are technically positive but commercially skeptical. Function praise: '+64 The cropping shown on the website looks pretty spectacular. Testing it, the accuracy of the automatic cropping is on point'; '+64 The edge detection of this is pretty impressive'; '+64 I tried it out. It works really well'; '+64 Wow, it seems pretty good. Its demo seems legit.' One tester doubts the demo (squared clip where stray body parts were auto-removed: 'Really?'). Pricing is the main fault line: '+64 79.99/year does not quite justify it. Especially since I already have the ability to copy paste to my computer for free using KDE connect'; '+64 the price is wayyyyy too high and the nagging way too aggressive for a casual like me.' Product-thesis skepticism runs high: multiple comments argue 'this is something what you would expect from an Operating System' and cite XKCD 1425 on tasks that look magical but are niche. Counter-enthusiasm exists: '+64 sent it to 4 friends who thought it was the coolest thing and wanted it straight away (and thought it was underpriced)' with named use cases — eBay sellers, product ads, background removal on portraits/merchandise, asset monitors. Minor UX gripe: saves only as PNG behind an 'All files' dialog. Much of the +86 comment mass is adjacent industry talk (Stable Diffusion ownership split between Runway/CompVis/Stability, funding-runway worries, whether image gen is a durable business) — interest in the underlying tech more than the app itself, including hope that Clipdrop's monocular depth estimator gets opened up for ControlNet use.

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