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How We're Building the Portfolio Platform AI Artists Deserve

We Built GitHub for AI Art — Here's What We Shipped This Week
AI art is booming. Millions create with Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, and Flux every day. But where does that art live?

Instagram wasn't built for AI art. Twitter compresses your images. DeviantArt feels stuck in 2010.

We're building PixelAI — a portfolio-first platform for AI artists. Think GitHub, but for generative art.

This week we shipped a massive update. Here's everything that's new.

📂 Collections
Every great portfolio tells a story. Collections let you group works into themed projects — "Neon Dreams", "Character Studies", "Client Work" — whatever makes sense for your creative process.

Public or private
Custom descriptions
Grid view with thumbnails
Add works from any post detail page
🏷️ Tags & Full-Text Search
10 genre categories: Character, Landscape, Abstract, Portrait, Concept Art, Photography, Illustration, 3D Render, Logo & Icon, and Anime & Manga.

Every post is searchable by title, description, and prompt text. Combined with genre chips and model filters, discovery just works.

⚙️ Generation Parameters
The AI art community runs on reproducibility. Now you can share:

Negative Prompt
Seed, Steps, CFG Scale, Sampler
Up to 5 custom key-value parameters
Progressive disclosure — the upload form stays clean for beginners, power users expand "Advanced Parameters" for full control.

🖼️ Multi-Image Carousel
Upload up to 10 images per post. Swipe on mobile, arrows on desktop. Perfect for process shots, model comparisons, prompt variations.

⚡ 2x Faster Page Loads
We rewrote every server-side page to use parallel data fetching. 7-8 sequential DB queries → 2-3 parallel batches. Portfolio page: ~1.5s → under 600ms.

🔜 What's Next
Bulk Upload — Upload 20+ works at once
Dynamic OG Images — Beautiful social cards
Product Hunt Launch — Coming soon 👀
Try it free: pixelai.world

Your work deserves a proper home. Not a social media feed. A portfolio.

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