"Independent Development Diary: My Second Set of Emojis is Live"

After a long wait and review, my second set of stickers is now online.

Friends who are interested can download and use them. If you want to create your own, you can directly use the StickerAI I made to play around. The link is in the original text; just upload an image, and you can convert yourself into a sticker with one click, then package it for export in WeChat format, and just submit it manually.

StickerAI

Product Updates

Random Thoughts

The big challenge I encountered this week is whether everyone prefers clean stickers, those with text, or some variations. I made several versions and ultimately chose the image structure that I think will be used more frequently in daily life. I wonder if everyone can see the differences.

Additionally, there may be cases where the Chinese font generates poorly. I was thinking of making a version for the daily life of workers, but the more Chinese characters in the drawing, the higher the probability of errors. So later, I limited the Chinese characters in the generated images; the English version doesn’t have font rendering issues.

Moreover, I optimized the generation prompts, and it took two days to come up with a version that felt right. I referenced many of my favorite stickers, had the AI analyze them, and finally summarized some features to optimize the prompts.

Plans Ahead

Others

This week, I spent an afternoon having AI write a file manager for Cloudflare R2 to manage the image hosting, mainly because the blog needs images in markdown format, and I lacked an image host. Coincidentally, StickerAI is already using Cloudflare R2, and to avoid spending extra time researching and encountering some strange cross-domain issues, the code has been open-sourced. I hope some brave souls can help maintain it later.

https://github.com/sanvibyfish/OwlUploader

Additionally, I will be returning to my home country in early June. If anyone wants to meet up, please make an appointment in advance.

另外本周6月初会回国一趟，想面基的可以提前预约。