PixeLana

Inspiration

As software developers, we recognize the growing importance of prompt engineering not just as a technical skill, but as a creative gateway to unlocking the full potential of AI-generated art. With Stable Diffusion's emergence as a powerful tool for image generation, we saw an opportunity to not only delve into the mechanics of crafting effective prompts but to do so in a way that's engaging, communal, and rewarding.

What it does

PixeLana is a multiplayer web app game where Stable Diffusion meets the Solana Blockchain. Players will take turns entering a prompt for the rest of the party to utilize the power of Stable Diffusion and generate images based on the prompt. The author of each prompt will then judge and select which art piece is the funniest, prettiest, or best image in the context of the prompt.

Winners will have their art minted in memory and as an NFT on the Solana Blockchain with fast confirmation times and low transaction fees.

How we built it

By moving fast and breaking things, even pivoting at some point. Technical expertise is, of course, important. However, the speed at which we developed and more importantly what critical features vs. non-core features we deliberately decided to develop was essential to the development of a usable MVP.

Next.js, TypeScript, Socket.IO, Solana CLI, and the just released token-metadata-extension.

Challenges we ran into

We spent several hours drafting the system design of the web socketing and game logic. Running Socket.IO alongside Next.js was also a hassle to configure.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our project is user-intuitive, fun to play, and it works!

What we learned

Besides a stronger foundation of the tech stack as a whole, communicating and addressing blockers amongst each other as soon as possible (given one has already tried solving the issue themself) was critical to developing at the unprecedented pace we maintained throughout the hackathon.

What's next for PixeLana

We intend to maintain and scale the project for worldwide use of our web app. Potential features include stronger content moderation and integration of a cloud platform for hosting.