Makeayo End-of-Year Recap: Empowering Creators Through the Cloud—and Introducing Flux!
December 31st, 2024
What a whirlwind year for Makeayo! From our humble beginnings as a desktop app to harnessing the power of the cloud, 2024 has seen some of the biggest steps forward in Makeayo's history. As we ring in the new year, we want to celebrate everything our community has helped us build—and share a sneak peek of where we're headed in 2025.
Bringing the Desktop Experience to the Cloud
When I launched Makeayo, the priority was giving everyday creators a powerful yet user-friendly way to make AI-generated art locally on their PCs. But as the user base grew, so did the requests for more convenience and fewer hardware constraints. That's why 2024 was all about bridging the gap between local and cloud computing:
  1. No Installation Hassle: Our web-based platform makes it possible to generate art anywhere, on any device, with no setup.
  2. Offloading Heavy Tasks: You can now tap into cloud servers, utilizing cutting-edge GPUs to handle resource-intensive tasks. No more waiting around just because your local hardware can't keep up.
Now you can decide whether to work offline in the desktop app or harness the raw power of cloud resources—giving you flexibility, speed, and endless possibilities for creation.
Meet Flux: Exclusive to the Cloud
One of our proudest achievements this year has been integrating Flux, a state-of-the-art generative model designed to push AI art quality and complexity even further.
What does Flux deliver?
  1. Enhanced Detail & Resolution: Crisp lines, complex textures, and mesmerizing color palettes.
  2. High-Fidelity Styles: From hyper-realism to futuristic abstractions, Flux handles a wide range of styles with nuanced results.
  3. Rapid Iteration: Because Flux runs in the cloud, even multi-step workflows remain efficient and responsive.
  4. Loras: Flux enables use of its very own loras, able to be used exclusively with Flux and Flux derivative models.
While Flux is currently exclusive to the cloud, I hope to bring support for Flux models locally sometime early 2025!
Toward a Unified Makeayo
While the desktop and cloud versions continue to evolve, my grand vision for the future is to bring these two experiences together. Imagine a world where you can start a creation process locally, then seamlessly hand it off to the cloud (and vice versa) without juggling separate apps or platforms. We're already laying the groundwork, and here's what we're aiming for:
  1. Single Sign-On & Shared Resources: Log in once, and have access to all your saved prompts, models, and generated art across desktop and cloud.
  2. Adaptive Workflows: Switch from local GPU usage to cloud-based rendering on the fly, based on complexity or personal preference.
  3. Consistent UI/UX: Whether you prefer desktop or browser, you'll enjoy the same intuitive interface—no relearning required.
Highlights of 2024
2024 has been a transformative year for Makeayo. We made the platform accessible from anywhere through our cloud rollout, enabling users to create stunning art from laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Collaborative features were streamlined, allowing for easier sharing and project backups to support teamwork. On the desktop side, significant updates improved performance, refined the UI, and expanded model support to ensure a seamless offline experience. Most notably, the integration of Flux brought cutting-edge capabilities exclusively to the cloud, marking a bold leap forward in our offerings.
Looking Ahead to 2025
  1. Seamless Merging of Desktop & Cloud: A single Makeayo system that intelligently moves tasks between your local device and the cloud for maximum efficiency.
  2. Advanced Video Generation: Giving you the power to produce animated works of art and vivid storytelling sequences.
  3. Live Collaboration: Allowing multiple users to edit a single canvas in real time, letting creativity bounce off each other faster than ever.
  4. Deeper Style Transfer & Enhanced Model Variety: Empowering you to experiment with an even broader palette of aesthetic choices.
As always, we can't do it without your input. We thrive on your feedback and creative experiments—so keep sharing your thoughts, wishlist features, and extraordinary artwork. Our goal has always been to make your artistic journey as innovative, inspiring, and seamless as possible.
Join Us on This Journey
If you haven't joined our community yet, check out our Discord for real-time updates and sneak peeks at what's next.
Thank you for making 2024 an unforgettable year for Makeayo. Your passion and creativity drive everything we do, and we can't wait to see what 2025 holds for our growing family of creators.
Happy New Year,
The Makeayo Team
About Makeayo
Makeayo is the leading desktop application and easiest way to create generative art from your PC. Makeayo gives you quality on par with Midjourney plus more creative control and less hassle with features including full SDXL support, ControlNets, Loras, HD Upscaling, inpainting, integrated model browser, and more.
Led by a diverse team, Makeayo empowers artists to bring their creations to life, enabling new ways to interact with their canvas and creations. To learn more, visit https://makeayo.com/.