Sandpaper Sunday

AI pictures

Your OpenAI key

Open platform.openai.com/api-keys and sign in.
Tap “Create new secret key” and copy it.
Paste it here. It saves by itself.

This isn't your ChatGPT Plus login: the API is billed separately by OpenAI. The key stays on this Mac.

Stop new pictures at a monthly limitNothing new is made once this month's AI spending reaches it. $a month Limit each helper per dayA helper is someone you've invited under People. $a day each Check each picture against the photoFlags a picture that changed the piece itself. Less than 1¢ each. Try once more when a picture changed the pieceIf the check finds a drawer, leg or shape changed, it's made again once, more strictly. Uses another picture when it happens.

More AI options

How AI picture costs show in your profit As one shop cost (recommended)A piece's profit leaves out its few cents of pictures. On each pieceEach piece's costs include its own pictures.

Quality when you redo an old pictureNew pictures use the Studio's Draft / Medium / Final choice.

Which AI models

Picture model Listing writer model Leave blank to use the newest one.

How I work

What's an hour of your time worth?$an hourEach piece then shows whether it paid you more or less than this. Leave empty to hide it.

The time estimates on each piece's Time sheet start from these, then learn your own pace from the steps you time.

How fast I work

I paint with My usual paint

I have an orbital sanderSanding by hand takes about twice as long.

Pieces I usually paint at oncePainting several at once shares the setup and cleanup.

Market prices

What refinished pieces sell for around you, so each piece's likely price is local.

Where the prices file comes from

Sandpaper Sunday's price research looks at what refinished pieces actually sold for nearby, on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist. It sends its prices here by itself, or you can choose its prices file (market.json) by hand.

Plan

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People

Helpers can use the Studio, My paints, In stock, Photos and Sales (not Expenses). Only you can change Settings, invite people or delete whole pieces.

Backups

Businesses on this site

You run this site. Other businesses join by invitation: each has its own pieces, money and people, which you never see. Here you see their sizes and spending, and set what each may use (the site pays their OpenAI pictures).

What other businesses see when they ask for a plan

Your name How to reach you

Shown on their Plan page. Leave empty to say only "the person who runs this site".

Limit the whole site's AI spendingEvery business together, yours too. $a month

Feedback and problems

Notes people send from the menu (Send feedback), and anything that broke on their screens or on the website, kept until you clear them. Everyone in another business, and your helpers, can send notes.

Close this business

Closing deletes this business and everything in it (pieces, photos, sales, costs, expenses, receipts and its people) a day later. Download a full backup first if you want to keep anything; until then you can change your mind.

Start with a photo

My paints

Know your numbers