Upfront: I'm the developer of Nodera, so this is self promo.

Two weeks ago I posted the first version here. Since then I've rebuilt most of it, and the biggest new things are Live & Stories.

🎬 Live mode. Some characters now live in animated scenes instead of a static picture. You find them in different places depending on the time of day: a rooftop at night, a market at noon, their room in the morning. As you talk the scene moves on with you, and every first moment goes into an album. Gifts unlock secret pictures, and holidays bring their own scenes (Halloween is up next). 10 characters to start, with hundreds of scenes between them.

🎧 Stories (You should try it, it's amazing) Tell it your mood and it writes a story just for you and reads it aloud in a voice you pick. You can keep it going when it ends. Like a audiobook experience in the age of companions

👥 Group rooms. You, your friends and up to 2 characters in one chat. They answer when you mention them and stay quiet when your friends talk to each other. Works solo too.

🧠 Memory that matters. Characters remember what happened, open up over time, and unlock more of their story and gallery as you get closer.

🖼️ See it. Turn any moment into a picture with consistent faces, or animate it into a short video.

🎨 Make your own. A visual builder with 70 art styles, with portraits and galleries made right in the editor.

✍️ Full control. Free rerolls, rewind, edit your message, personas, and new chats that keep the old ones.

🔞 Adults only where you want it. SFW by default, with 18+ characters, rooms and pictures behind an 18+ setting.

It's free, and there's no paid plan at all. You get free credits every day. There's a brand new home page, 700+ public characters.

The question I'd love answered: does Live feel like fun gamified experience, or like watching a screensaver? Honest answers help more than nice ones.

https://app.nodera.ai

Nodera is completely free: chat, image generation, video generation, all of it, just to get it out of the way from the start.

Every character in these images was made with Claude Opus 5.5 through the Nodera MCP connector overnight. You connect it once, then just tell it who you want, like "make Tifa, keep her true to FF7 Remake, 18+". It then does the whole thing for you:

• Looks up the official art so the character actually looks like the source
• Writes the card: personality, backstory, opening scene, voice and secrets
• Sets up 11 relationship stages that change how they act as you get closer
• Generates the portrait and a how ever many gallery images that unlocks as the relationship grows
• Supports NSFW characters and galleries for verified adults

This is how I got 400+ characters in a few days, all playable right now.

Try it at https://nodera.ai/. The MCP endpoint is https://api.nodera.ai/mcp if you want to build your own.

Self promo upfront: I'm posting because I just released something new and I need people to break it.

Group Rooms: one chat with up to 6 humans and 2 AI companions for the Alpha testing.

* They know who you're talking to. u mention one, call them by name, or just reply to what they said. Ask "you two" and both answer. Talk to your friends and they stay out of it.

* Works solo too. You plus two companions is already a scene, and they talk to each other.

* Turn any moment into a picture. Everyone in the room sees it, and the companions react to what's in it. Characters stay looking consistent between pictures.

* You're the host. Make a companion quiet or chatty, change their reply length, or only let them speak when called.

* Uncensored. 18+ rooms for adults, with an NSFW switch for pictures. Nobody gets pictured without their own opt in.

* Free. Free credits plus a daily top up, and 150 bonus credits for your first room.

Fair warning: it's an alpha. Companions will sometimes miss a message or answer the wrong one, pictures can be slow or fail (you get refunded), and capacity is small.

Try it: https://app.nodera.ai → Chats → New room, pick your companions, invite a friend or go solo.

Tell me when a companion does something weird. Screenshots help a ton.

I’m testing a question for consumer AI apps: how consistent does a generated character actually need to be before users recognize it as the same person?

The attached images are Z-Image Turbo generations using text prompts alone, no character LoRA, reference-image conditioning, or custom node workflow. Most were first attempts.

When I shared them in r/ZImageAI, someone pointed out that the nose, lip thickness, and freckles change between images. Their assessment was: “They look like sisters.”

That’s fair criticism. There’s a recognizable similarity, but the character’s identity isn’t perfectly preserved. My earlier description of “80% consistent” was a subjective impression, not a measured score.

The prompting method is a reusable three-part template:

1. Person fixed: Repeat the same age, facial features, hair, skin tone, freckles, and identifying marks word for word.
2. Scene variable: Change the outfit, pose, location, and action. Keep outfit descriptions fixed too when the clothes should stay the same.
3. Photography controlled: Specify framing, viewpoint, lighting, and camera style so the images feel like they belong in the same collection.

It’s simple enough to assemble programmatically. Keep the character description stored, insert the current scene, and append the photography instructions. A fixed seed helps compare prompt edits, but it doesn’t guarantee the same face across different scenes.

The trade-off I’m exploring is speed, cost, and recognizable identity.

For AI companions, character chats, or illustrated stories, would an ordinary user accept these images as the same character? Or would the changing facial details break the experience, even if generation is inexpensive?

I’m building OpenMayhem.ai, where I ran these tests. It offers browser access and an OpenAI-compatible API for open models, including uncensored Z-Image and uncensored chat models, without needing your own GPU.

For budgeting, $0.0025 per generation means $2.50 for 1,000 images.

If you want to test your own character prompts or prototype an integration, there’s a $5 welcome-credit offer: https://openmayhem.ai/offers/welcome

Create an account or sign in and follow the claim verification steps. Stripe card verification may be required to prevent repeat claims; no payment is collected for that verification. There’s also a separate limited free playground without signup. Customizable ComfyUI workflows for Z-Image are in development.

Looking at the images, would you call this “the same character,” “close enough for casual use,” or “different people”? And would your answer change between a story app and an AI companion where users become familiar with one face?

I’m testing a question for consumer AI apps: how consistent does a generated character actually need to be before users recognize it as the same person?

The attached images are Z-Image Turbo generations using text prompts alone, no character LoRA, reference-image conditioning, or custom node workflow. Most were first attempts.

When I shared them in r/ZImageAI, someone pointed out that the nose, lip thickness, and freckles change between images. Their assessment was: “They look like sisters.”

That’s fair criticism. There’s a recognizable similarity, but the character’s identity isn’t perfectly preserved. My earlier description of “80% consistent” was a subjective impression, not a measured score.

The prompting method is a reusable three-part template:

1. Person fixed: Repeat the same age, facial features, hair, skin tone, freckles, and identifying marks word for word.
2. Scene variable: Change the outfit, pose, location, and action. Keep outfit descriptions fixed too when the clothes should stay the same.
3. Photography controlled: Specify framing, viewpoint, lighting, and camera style so the images feel like they belong in the same collection.

It’s simple enough to assemble programmatically. Keep the character description stored, insert the current scene, and append the photography instructions. A fixed seed helps compare prompt edits, but it doesn’t guarantee the same face across different scenes.

The trade-off I’m exploring is speed, cost, and recognizable identity.

For AI companions, character chats, or illustrated stories, would an ordinary user accept these images as the same character? Or would the changing facial details break the experience, even if generation is inexpensive?

I’m building OpenMayhem.ai, where I ran these tests. It offers browser access and an OpenAI-compatible API for open models, including uncensored Z-Image and uncensored chat models, without needing your own GPU.

For budgeting, $0.0025 per generation means $2.50 for 1,000 images.

If you want to test your own character prompts or prototype an integration, there’s a $5 welcome-credit offer: https://openmayhem.ai/offers/welcome

Create an account or sign in and follow the claim verification steps. Stripe card verification may be required to prevent repeat claims; no payment is collected for that verification. There’s also a separate limited free playground without signup. Customizable ComfyUI workflows for Z-Image are in development.

Looking at the images, would you call this “the same character,” “close enough for casual use,” or “different people”? And would your answer change between a story app and an AI companion where users become familiar with one face?

Upfront: I'm involved in this, so self-promo post I guess.

Every time I wanted to add an AI feature to something, it was the same slog: one vendor for text, another for images, another for voice, each with its own SDK, key and invoice. And if you want the open models, you're either renting a GPU that bills 24/7 whether you use it or not, or paying a cloud host's margin to run it for you.

So we built OpenMayhem: an open-source market where people serve open models on their own hardware, and you buy inference from them directly, with full privacy. One OpenAI-compatible endpoint, one balance, pay for exactly what you generate.

Live right now:

- Text: Qwen3.6-35B (262K context), Gemma 4 E4B, Ternary Bonsai 27B, Huihui Agents A1

- Image: Z-Image Turbo Uncensored

- Voice: Chatterbox (TTS + cloning), Parakeet (speech-to-text)

- Music: ACE-Step 1.5

- Video: Sulphur-2 Uncensored

Including open finetunes the big APIs won't host at all. Prices float on supply and demand instead of a pricing page, and no subscription or minimums, so trying something costs cents.

It's beta and things will break. There's a browser playground running the live models, no account needed try it in 10 seconds: https://www.openmayhem.ai/playground

If you're building something real, DM me for starting credits and I'll help you get it wired in. Would love to hear which model you'd actually need.

Upfront: I am involved in this, so this is a self-promo post I guess.

I work in the AI/LLM space, and one thing kept bugging me: the models are open, and capable hardware is literally everywhere (gaming PCs, Macs, homelab racks sitting idle 20 hours a day), but the moment you want to run an actual app on open models you're back on some company's pricing page, with the caps and only the most regulated basic models.

So we're building OpenMayhem, an open-source peer-to-peer market where people's machines serve verified open models and your app buys tokens from them directly.

💸 Pay for tokens, not a GPU rental. No renting a GPU that bills whether you use it or not, no cloud host's margin. Your requests route to people already serving the model, you pay for exactly what you generate. Cents to start, and capacity grows as providers come online.

🖥️ No company in the middle. There's nothing sitting between you and them to squeeze you later.

It's beta and things will break. Nine models are live so far, and one balance covers all of them:

- LLMs: Qwen3.6-35B uncensored, Gemma 4 E4B, Ternary Bonsai 27B, Huihui Agents A1 Uncensored
- Image: Z-Image Turbo
- TTS: Chatterbox (TTS + voice cloning), Parakeet (speech-to-text)
- Music: ACE-Step 1.5
- Video: Sulphur-2 (video + audio)

More onboarding now. There's a browser playground running live models, no account needed to try it out for free to see how the p2p systems work.

Try it on something real, tell me what breaks and which model you're missing for your project. DM me for starting credits and I'll personally get you running.

https://www.openmayhem.ai/playground - look around without an account
Github: https://github.com/Trac-Systems/openmayhem

Upfront: I am involved in this, so this is a self-promo post I guess.

I work in the AI/LLM space, and one thing kept bugging me: the models are open, and capable hardware is literally everywhere (gaming PCs, Macs, homelab racks sitting idle 20 hours a day), but the moment you want to run an actual app on open models you're back on some company's pricing page, with the caps and only the most regulated basic models.

So we're building OpenMayhem, an open-source peer-to-peer market where people's machines serve verified open models and your app buys tokens from them directly.

💸 Pay for tokens, not a GPU rental. No renting a GPU that bills whether you use it or not, no cloud host's margin. Your requests route to people already serving the model, you pay for exactly what you generate. Cents to start, and capacity grows as providers come online.

🖥️ No company in the middle. There's nothing sitting between you and them to squeeze you later.

It's beta and things will break. Nine models are live so far, and one balance covers all of them:

- LLMs: Qwen3.6-35B uncensored, Gemma 4 E4B, Ternary Bonsai 27B, Huihui Agents A1 Uncensored
- Image: Z-Image Turbo
- TTS: Chatterbox (TTS + voice cloning), Parakeet (speech-to-text)
- Music: ACE-Step 1.5
- Video: Sulphur-2 (video + audio)

More onboarding now. There's a browser playground running live models, no account needed to try it out for free to see how the p2p systems work.

Try it on something real, tell me what breaks and which model you're missing for your project. DM me for starting credits and I'll personally get you running.

https://www.openmayhem.ai/playground - look around without an account
Github: https://github.com/Trac-Systems/openmayhem

Hey everyone, welcome to r/Open_Mayhem.

This community is for people interested in open peer-to-peer AI inference, including distributed compute, node operation, LLMs, image generation, video generation, embedding models, AI agents, benchmarks, workflows, and open AI infrastructure.

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Introduce yourself in the comments below:

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Upfront: I built this, so this is a self-promo post I guess.

I work in the AI/LLM space (finetuning, harnesses, some open-source), and the companion apps I used kept dying on the same two things: the character forgets everything after a while, and the good parts always end up paywalled by a company you know will squeeze you later.

So I built Nodera.ai, now in free web early access so you cant even spend money even if you wanted to. What it does differently:

📲 Swipe feed, not a directory. You discover characters TikTok-style instead of scrolling a wall of cards, later on this changes where companions make their own posts and this gets shown in the feed instead.

💞 Relationships that grow over time. Whatever the bond is, it deepens as you talk, the character opens up, shifts how they treat you, and unlocks more of their story and galleries the closer you get.

🧠 Memory that holds. A layer underneath tracks the plot and the relationship so long chats stay coherent and progressing instead of quietly resetting.

✍️ A creator built for depth. You write how a character reacts when pushed, not just a pile of traits, so they feel like a person, not a bio.

The real goal is a local desktop version: bring your own models, get every community character, free forever. Nothing on my servers means nobody can enshittify it later. That's the whole point of doing this.

It's early and things will break. I want brutal feedback way more than I want users right now.

https://app.nodera.ai look around without an account

Discord (brand new): https://discord.gg/qSjVcpTpzF

I keep going down a rabbit hole on this. You can give a character traits, a backstory, a way of talking, a relationship that shifts over time, and somehow two characters with the same amount of detail land completely differently. One feels real, one feels like a list of adjectives.

I've been tinkering with a creator to test different setups (screenshots below from what I've been messing with), and honestly the tool is the easy part, figuring out what to actually put in is the hard part.

So I want to compare notes with experts who actually tried out other tools:

- When you make a character that really clicks, what did the heavy lifting?

- What's a scenario setup that reliably goes somewhere good instead of fizzling?

- What do you always wish you could control when making one, but never can?

And if you want to actually try this prototype out, the thing I've been building is free to use right now: https://app.nodera.ai/feed
Would also appreciate to get feedback on Discord: https://discord.gg/qSjVcpTpzF

Like probably half this sub I've cycled through most of the companion/RP apps and the same two things kept killing it for me: the character forgets anything that mattered after a while or hallucinates things that never happened, and every app eventually walls the good parts behind paywalls once the VC money wants its returns.

I work in the AI/LLM space for a living (model finetuning, Agent harnesses and automation), so at some point I stopped complaining and built my own thing on the side. It's called Nodera and the web early access went live this week. I attached some screenshots so you can judge the current state of it

What it is right now: a swipe feed of characters where every card is someone you can talk to, on top of a model tuned for roleplay and a memory system I spent way too long on. Relationships actually progress, characters open up over time and unlock more of their story and gallery the closer you get. There's a character creator where you define who they are at stage 0 and who they become at stage 10. The long-term vision is a real merge of a TikTok-style feed that gets populated by real character actions and a chat. What's live now is the compromise I could ship without sitting on it for another year.

Everything is free during early access. No payments anywhere in the app. I want bug reports and brutal opinions, not money.

The part I care about most, and why I'm posting here: the plan is a local desktop version where you bring your own models, local LLM, image gen, TTS, and you get the full experience including every character the community creates. Free, forever, because nothing burns server money. I want one corner of this niche that can't get enshittified, and running local is the only honest way to promise that.

Current state: web only, I tested everything myself so it should be reasonably polished, but plenty is missing and some things will break. The roadmap is genuinely open and the Discord is brand new and basically empty, so if you want to shape where this goes, right now is the moment your opinion has the most weight.

Web (runs in the browser, you can look around without an account): nodera(dot)ai

Discord: gets the post removed by reddit whenever I include it, sorry