At a cut-off date when starting The hustle culture is backWhen “locked up“Tech founders have even joined the “996“The way we work – 9am to 9pm, 6 days per week – there’s something dystopian about using an AI app to create fake holiday photos of yourself.
And yet here we’re.
Product designer Laurent the Kingwho recently joined Meta's Superintelligence Lab, began a side project called Endless summera photograph booth app for iPhone that creates AI-generated vacation photos with you in locations all over the world. Here you’ll be able to explore a beach town or look out over a European city out of your balcony. Whether shopping, having dinner with friends or at a social gathering.
It doesn't seem like anyone in these photos is talking about AI or entrepreneurship or lack of sleep.
Ace of Kings explained When sharing the beginning on
(If you’ll be able to't live life, you would possibly as well fake it, right?)
The product designer told TechCrunch that he was inspired to create the app because summer is his favorite season and he loves how life feels during this season.
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“At the top of the season I desired to make something that felt like that. I redeveloped the product experience based on that feeling,” he says. “I created an Xcode project and began iterating straight from there, type of designing the code experience.”
The experience he landed on was an easy interface with a small camera preview button at the underside of the screen. You tap the button to create an AI-generated “summer photo.” When you click, the photos appear in your screen in a type of camera roll view. Each photo shows you, or moderately an AI version of you, exploring the world and looking out pretty content.
Behind the scenes, Gemini's nano-banana image model does the heavy lifting, because the app prompts the model for various variations of the summer photo output.
The app doesn't save your selfies, says Del Rey, unless you’ve the optional auto-generation mode enabled. Additionally, users can delete their account at any time with just two taps, which is able to delete all the pieces.
Although nanobananas are relatively inexpensive, they cost money. For this reason, Endless Summer doesn't mean you can create unlimited photos at no cost. Instead, after your first six images, you'll hit a paywall and payment options will probably be suggested to you beforehand.
The price isn't bad should you just need to experiment with the personalized AI images out of curiosity – or since you regret missing your summer vacation this yr.
It costs $3.99 to create 30 images, $17.99 for 150, and $34.99 for 300. You can enable or disable a “room service” mode that routinely gives you two photos each morning together with your latest summer trips and world travels. You also can set or guess your gender within the app (“Auto” mode) and enable or disable an option that routinely saves the AI images to your iPhone’s camera roll.
A brand new option within the app helps you to create Halloween photos that show you in several costumes as an alternative of summer photos.
The photos themselves have a vintage film aesthetic, making them seem like the casual lifestyle images they’re intended to resemble. This gives the app a way of nostalgia because it evokes a mid-2000s feel.
This reflects other modern trends surrounding online photo sharing. Whether it's adopting retro technology like zoomers with disposable cameras or posting Instagram photo dumps with blurry images, there's a desire for some people for a less curated, less “technically perfect” version of life.
How bizarre is it that it's now AI that brings you this?
