I'm a developer who can't draw but always wanted to make comics. Commissioning an artist for even a short chapter costs hundreds of dollars, so I built a tool for people exactly like me.

Inkroost lets you:

• Describe your characters once (hair, clothes, personality). They stay consistent across every page
• Write each page as one sentence ("she finds the letter pushed under the door") and get up to 4 drawing options to pick from
• Upload your own art instead, if you draw. Both paths work
• Publish free chapters or gate them behind your own Patreon (you keep the audience and the income)
• Use whole export module which allows you to export your chapters as images, pdfs, epub or cbz.
• You keep full rights. Inkroost is non-exclusive

Inkroot is also probably the only similar platform you can use directly with your favourite agent via MCP

Currently 7 creators, 12 series, 62 chapters. New accounts start with 15 free credits, no card needed.

My main pricing model is selling generation and watermark free exportables. I'm currently trying to grow the platform. I have 20 users in a month, 5 this week and this is increasing. But it requires me to actively post different platforms which is time consuming.

I'd love feedback on:

(a) the positioning. Does "comic from your story" make sense?

(b) the pricing model.

(c) how should I approach marketing of this side project since I can't spend all my time on promoting?

Link: https://inkroost.com

We have some new and powerful features on Inkroost.

1 - You can now export your chapter or whole series.

Export screen

2 - You can now visualise your character sheets in detail with different styles to test things out.

https://preview.redd.it/qddcq6kf40kh1.png?width=764&format=png&auto=webp&s=6238e81b56b4c3be1c38727899b17fddec9f5c74

Seinen

Chibi

Webtoon

Here is how it looks on action

Example beats

3 - You can AI generate multiple pages from a single prompt

Beat split in action

4 - Publishing is streamlined and made easy

You just click the button

If you’re looking for inspiration, look for copyright free books! This is a modernized version of Pride & Prejudice on inkroost. I really like how it’s evolving. AMA!

My comedy bits, inkroost generator.

Hey r/aicomicmakers - builder here, so this is self-promo, flagged up front. Mods, happy to remove if it's not welcome.

The problem I kept running into: there are loads of good tools now for generating comic pages, but almost nowhere decent to actually put the finished thing. Post AI-assisted work on most comic platforms and it gets removed or dogpiled. So the work ends up sitting in a folder.

Inkroost (inkroost.com) is my attempt at a home for it:

• Publish hand-drawn or AI-assisted chapters. AI-assisted series get an "AI-assisted" tag - visible, not hidden. I'd rather be upfront with readers than pretend.
• Free to read, free to start, no subscription.
• You keep your rights. Your manga stays yours.
• Monetisation runs through your own Patreon rather than us sitting in the middle - you keep the reader relationship and the money directly. (well, there is Patreon but that's not my business)

Being honest about where it's at: it is very early. A handful of series, most of them mine while I test the pipeline, and a tiny reader count. I'm not going to pretend there's an audience waiting for you - there isn't yet. What I can offer early creators is that your series won't be buried under thousands of others, and I'll actually build what you ask for.

I don't have any talent to draw so I have been improving the AI generation to help myself. Huge difference in consistency between the early chapters of https://inkroost.com/series/dead-hours and latest ones.

What I'd genuinely like feedback on:

1. Is open "AI-assisted" tagging the right call, or does it just paint a target on creators' backs?
2. Patreon-based monetisation vs. something native - which would you actually want?
3. What's the one thing that would make you upload a series somewhere new?

Tear it apart, I'd rather hear it now. And if you've got a finished comic sitting in a folder, that's exactly who I built this for.

I’m making this indie manga platform nowadays and added bunch of ai to it for people with no talent like myself. I’m pretty happy about how the comedy series Dead Hours turned out 😅