Matthew Choo

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🎨 I Built SIA App So You Don’t Have to Code Your Way into Creative Flow

As someone who’s juggled design, automation, and content production for years, I kept running into the same wall: too many tools, too many…

🎨 I Built SIA App So You Don’t Have to Code Your Way into Creative Flow

As someone who’s juggled design, automation, and content production for years, I kept running into the same wall: too many tools, too many steps, too much friction — especially when working with AI-generated visuals for stock image platforms.

So I built the SIA App (MLT Stock Idea Assistant) to solve that.

It’s a no-code, end-to-end assistant that automates the entire visual ideation pipeline — from AI-generated prompts to tagged, upload-ready images. If you’re a designer, content creator, or entrepreneur, my goal with SIA is simple: let you focus on creativity, not complexity.

🚀 Why I Built It

Every tool I tried either required:

  • Custom Python scripting
  • Manual API calls
  • Or painful toggling between Ollama, ComfyUI, and tagging spreadsheets

So I built SIA to bridge that gap — for myself at first, then polished it for public release.

It follows a no-code philosophy: zero coding, one-click output. Whether you’re prepping content for Adobe Stock or experimenting with AI prompts for a new product line, you can get inspired and publish faster.

⚙️ How It Works (Behind the Scenes)

Here’s the workflow SIA automates under the hood:

1. 📝 AI-Powered Prompt Generation

You type a theme — like “urban minimalism” or “futuristic workspace” — and SIA uses Ollama + Mistral to generate creative, structured prompts in seconds.

Title: “Quiet Desk at Dawn”
Description: A minimal white desk by a window with warm sunlight.
Keywords: calm, workspace, morning

2. 📄 Flattening and Cleaning

The app auto-structures the prompts into one-liners for seamless processing by image generators.

3. 🎨 Image Generation with ComfyUI

SIA calls a preconfigured SDXL workflow via API, injects your prompt, configures seed/resolution, and handles queueing — all automatically.

4. 🧠 Metadata Tagging

Every generated image is embedded with its title, keywords, and description using EXIF data. A CSV file is created too — for stock platform uploads.

5. 📂 Organize & Upload

Images are timestamped into folders and can be uploaded via FTP with a single button click. No more dragging files or renaming folders.

🧠 No-Code by Design

I wanted SIA to work for:

  • Designers who don’t code
  • Marketers who don’t want to touch Python
  • Creators who just want clean, usable outputs

Everything happens in a GUI. You can:

  • Generate prompts
  • Launch ComfyUI
  • Wait for image completion
  • Embed metadata
  • Upload via FTP

…all from buttons and dropdowns.

🛡️ Licensing & Versions

To keep things fair and sustainable, I created 3 modes:

  • Free: Test the workflow (3 prompts per batch)
  • Pro Personal: For portfolio or non-commercial use (no prompt limit)
  • Pro Business: Full commercial rights, client projects, stock sales (no prompt limit)

I also included a built-in EULA popup and Gumroad license validation. Commercial users can track license status securely via Firebase logging (anonymous and private).

💡 Who This Is For

If you’ve ever thought:

“I wish I had a button that just did all this for me…”

That’s exactly who I built this for.

SIA is ideal if you:

  • Sell images or design assets online
  • Run marketing campaigns needing fast visual variety
  • Want to explore AI-generated visuals — without the technical baggage

🧩 What It Replaces

✅ Manual prompt crafting  ✅ Jupyter notebooks or CLI tools  ✅ Image folder wrangling  ✅ Spreadsheet-based metadata prep  ✅ Tedious FTP uploads

All collapsed into a single, visual assistant.

📘 Try It Out

You don’t need to know how to code. You just need an idea.

🙏 Thanks for checking it out. I built this to help myself and now I hope it helps you too.

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If you’re building something creative — I’d love to hear about it.

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