{"slug": "nano-banana", "name": "Nano Banana", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "Google's Gemini image generation and editing model, also known as Gemini Flash Image.", "recommenders": 16, "commenters": 24, "warners": 1, "score": 14.685, "rising": -3.91, "first": "2025-11-13", "latest": "2026-08-04", "why": "HN commenters like it for mocking up home remodels and landscaping, for cleanup and editing tasks such as fingerprint and branding work, and for high image quality that responds well to annotations drawn on the image.The most common caveat is that it struggles with some spatial prompts and text rendering, where GPT Images 2.0 does better, and it can't produce clean transparent or solid backgrounds.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 16, "neutral": 4, "compare": 3, "warn": 1}, "spark": [3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 3, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": ["Home visualization", "Image cleanup"], "caveat": "Spatial prompts", "short_quote": "nano banana is the first model that is able to do the task (it is astonishingly good at it)", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["Nano Banana", "Nano Banana 2", "NanoBanana", "Nano-Banana"], "verdict": [{"text": "HN commenters like it for mocking up home remodels and landscaping,", "cites": [{"id": 783868560, "item_id": 48991785, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991785", "by": "LogicFailsMe", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use nanobanana 2 to test changes in paint and flooring/tiling to great success.", "excerpt": "I use nanobanana 2 to test changes in paint and flooring/tiling to great success. And the real pro move is taking those images to a designer to tweak the remaining 20% or so.", "context": "", "use_case": "visualizing paint and flooring changes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"}, {"id": 779837680, "item_id": 48739855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739855", "by": "VectorLock", "date": "2026-06-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Nano Banana to make some mockups for a bath room remodel I'm doing and it worked pretty great.", "excerpt": "Using it for \"staging\" shitty rentals is pretty gross, but I used Nano Banana to make some mockups for a bath room remodel I'm doing and it worked pretty great.", "context": "", "use_case": "bathroom remodel mockups", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana 2 Lite"}, {"id": 746128016, "item_id": 46633001, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633001", "by": "soared", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Nano banana was better than any tool I found when I used AI to come up with landscaping visualizations.", "excerpt": "Easier to just use your preferred llm with image editing capabilities. Nano banana was better than any tool I found when I used AI to come up with landscaping visualizations.", "context": "", "use_case": "landscaping visualizations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Simpler than Photoshop but for free AI Landscaping"}, {"id": 783948576, "item_id": 48996786, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996786", "by": "paradox460", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used it recently to explore a few placements of a pool and glass building on my property.", "excerpt": "I used it recently to explore a few placements of a pool and glass building on my property. It's not authoritative, by any means, but it did answer some questions And at this level it's barely any different than an architectural render, more for \"how could this look\" rather than \"how will this look\"", "context": "", "use_case": "visualizing property changes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"}]}, {"text": " for cleanup and editing tasks such as fingerprint and branding work,", "cites": [{"id": 783899472, "item_id": 48993717, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993717", "by": "doctoboggan", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "nano banana is the first model that is able to do the task (it is astonishingly good at it)", "excerpt": "I have a side business selling custom fingerprint jewelry and I use gemini nano banana to clean up customer submitted fingerprint images. This was a step I used to do by hand at 10 - 15 minutes per image and nano banana is the first model that is able to do the task (it is astonishingly good at it). I can't wait to see what the next nano banana can do, hopefully its released soon.", "context": "runs a custom fingerprint jewelry business", "use_case": "cleaning up fingerprint images", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"}, {"id": 767362256, "item_id": 47960141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960141", "by": "sarreph", "date": "2026-04-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Nano Banana 2 [gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview] especially is adept at performing arbitrary operations on images.", "excerpt": "I've been working on an adjacent problem (extracting website branding data from a URL) for the past year, and previously had to rely on procedural techniques such as these -- props to the author! However, models are now getting to the point where we are starting to learn the bitter lesson[0] even with stuff like color-palette generation. Nano Banana 2 [gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview] especially is adept at performing", "context": "builds website branding extraction", "use_case": "extracting color palettes from images", "switched_from": "", "story": "Creating a Color Palette from an Image"}, {"id": 738295089, "item_id": 46143443, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46143443", "by": "itake", "date": "2025-12-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "than using nano-banana to remove non-compliant features (like pii) from the images", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve spent the past five years working in content moderation. In my opinion, the real gap in the market isn\u2019t \u201cbetter safety models\u201d. it\u2019s turn-key orchestration platforms that provide: - A web portal for manual moderation and data-labeling workflows - Multi-tier moderation checks (e.g., if a keyword is detected, escalate to an LLM) - Simple integration of custom, business-specific models (e.g., blocking competitor m", "context": "five years working in content moderation", "use_case": "removing PII from images", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: SafeKey \u2013 PII redaction for LLM inputs (text, image, audio, video)"}]}, {"text": " and for high image quality that responds well to annotations drawn on the image.", "cites": [{"id": 744604523, "item_id": 46537782, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537782", "by": "mythz", "date": "2026-01-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Also find Nano Banana/Pro (Gemini Flash Image) to consistently generate the highest quality images", "excerpt": "Gemini CLI is too slow to be useful, kind of surprised it was even offered and marketed given how painful it is to use. I thought it'd have to be damaging to the Gemini brand to get people to try it out, suffer painful UX then immediately stop using it. (Using it from Australia may also contribute to its slow perf) Antigravity was also painful to use at launch where more queries failed then succeeded, however they've", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI"}, {"id": 765699600, "item_id": 47856225, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856225", "by": "neom", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "none of them are nearly as good as Nano Banana.", "excerpt": "Here is my regular \"hard prompt\" I use for testing image gen models: \"A macro close-up photograph of an old watchmaker's hands carefully replacing a tiny gear inside a vintage pocket watch. The watch mechanism is partially submerged in a shallow dish of clear water, causing visible refraction and light caustics across the brass gears. A single drop of water is falling from a pair of steel tweezers, captured mid-splas", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Livestream"}, {"id": 786758384, "item_id": 49172399, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172399", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I thought Nano Banana did a great job!", "excerpt": "I thought Nano Banana did a great job! I used a trick I saw someone describe elsewhere where I inserted the annotations on the photo / google street view of the scene. It seems like the model does a better job of instruction compliance when you annotate on the image itself rather than provide text. So an arrow to place the penny farthing guy and so on.", "context": "", "use_case": "annotated image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"}, {"id": 734772960, "item_id": 45923310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923310", "by": "Genego", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I actually send an image with a red box around where the requested change is needed. And 8 out of 10 times it works well.", "excerpt": "Yes, the prompt is composed of 7 different layers, where I group together coherent visual and temporal responsibilities. Depending on the scene, I usually only change 3-5 layers, but the base layers still stay the same; so the scenes all appear within the same story universe and same style. If something feels off, or feels like it needs to be improved, I just adjust one layer after the other to experiment with the re", "context": "", "use_case": "storyboard image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}]}, {"text": "The most common caveat is that it struggles with some spatial prompts and text rendering, where GPT Images 2.0 does better,", "cites": [{"id": 765752096, "item_id": 47859506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859506", "by": "justani", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I have a few cases where nano banana fails all the time, even gpt image 2 is failing.", "excerpt": "I have a few cases where nano banana fails all the time, even gpt image 2 is failing. A 3 * 3 cube made out of small cubes, with a small 2 * 2 cube removed from it - https://chatgpt.com/share/69e85df6-5840-83e8-b0e9-3701e9233244 Create a dot grid containing a rectangle covering 4 dots horizontally and 3 dots vertically - https://chatgpt.com/share/69e85e4b-252c-83e8-b25f-416984cf3040 One where Nano banana fails but gp", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Livestream"}, {"id": 765843969, "item_id": 47865248, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865248", "by": "curious1008", "date": "2026-04-22", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I used NanoBanana and Images 2.0 to generate the same written article in Chinese as IMAGES", "excerpt": "I have tried Images 2.0 and I believe it does a way better job than the other image generation models. For example, I used NanoBanana and Images 2.0 to generate the same written article in Chinese as IMAGES, GPT does 100x better at rendering all the Chinese characters despite having minor mistakes.", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Livestream"}]}, {"text": " and it can't produce clean transparent or solid backgrounds.", "cites": [{"id": 737629008, "item_id": 46101813, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101813", "by": "IgorPartola", "date": "2025-11-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it cannot seem to generate transparent backgrounds or even solid ones", "excerpt": "This is perfect! I have had such a time with Nano Banana asking it to generate some very simple pixel art. One of the worst things is that it cannot seem to generate transparent backgrounds or even solid ones. It\u2019s always some blotchy cloud of off-white pixels or a simulated fuzzy grid that shows up in some places. I will need to give this a try to clean up some of what I had to try by hand.", "context": "", "use_case": "generating pixel art", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Home visualization", "summary": "Used to preview remodels, paint, flooring, pools and landscaping.", "quotes": [{"id": 783868560, "item_id": 48991785, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991785", "by": "LogicFailsMe", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use nanobanana 2 to test changes in paint and flooring/tiling to great success.", "excerpt": "I use nanobanana 2 to test changes in paint and flooring/tiling to great success. And the real pro move is taking those images to a designer to tweak the remaining 20% or so.", "context": "", "use_case": "visualizing paint and flooring changes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"}, {"id": 779837680, "item_id": 48739855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739855", "by": "VectorLock", "date": "2026-06-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Nano Banana to make some mockups for a bath room remodel I'm doing and it worked pretty great.", "excerpt": "Using it for \"staging\" shitty rentals is pretty gross, but I used Nano Banana to make some mockups for a bath room remodel I'm doing and it worked pretty great.", "context": "", "use_case": "bathroom remodel mockups", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana 2 Lite"}, {"id": 746128016, "item_id": 46633001, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633001", "by": "soared", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Nano banana was better than any tool I found when I used AI to come up with landscaping visualizations.", "excerpt": "Easier to just use your preferred llm with image editing capabilities. Nano banana was better than any tool I found when I used AI to come up with landscaping visualizations.", "context": "", "use_case": "landscaping visualizations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Simpler than Photoshop but for free AI Landscaping"}]}, {"label": "Image cleanup", "summary": "Handles editing tasks like fingerprint cleanup, PII removal and other image operations.", "quotes": [{"id": 783899472, "item_id": 48993717, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993717", "by": "doctoboggan", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "nano banana is the first model that is able to do the task (it is astonishingly good at it)", "excerpt": "I have a side business selling custom fingerprint jewelry and I use gemini nano banana to clean up customer submitted fingerprint images. This was a step I used to do by hand at 10 - 15 minutes per image and nano banana is the first model that is able to do the task (it is astonishingly good at it). I can't wait to see what the next nano banana can do, hopefully its released soon.", "context": "runs a custom fingerprint jewelry business", "use_case": "cleaning up fingerprint images", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"}, {"id": 767362256, "item_id": 47960141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960141", "by": "sarreph", "date": "2026-04-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Nano Banana 2 [gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview] especially is adept at performing arbitrary operations on images.", "excerpt": "I've been working on an adjacent problem (extracting website branding data from a URL) for the past year, and previously had to rely on procedural techniques such as these -- props to the author! However, models are now getting to the point where we are starting to learn the bitter lesson[0] even with stuff like color-palette generation. Nano Banana 2 [gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview] especially is adept at performing", "context": "builds website branding extraction", "use_case": "extracting color palettes from images", "switched_from": "", "story": "Creating a Color Palette from an Image"}, {"id": 738295089, "item_id": 46143443, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46143443", "by": "itake", "date": "2025-12-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "than using nano-banana to remove non-compliant features (like pii) from the images", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve spent the past five years working in content moderation. In my opinion, the real gap in the market isn\u2019t \u201cbetter safety models\u201d. it\u2019s turn-key orchestration platforms that provide: - A web portal for manual moderation and data-labeling workflows - Multi-tier moderation checks (e.g., if a keyword is detected, escalate to an LLM) - Simple integration of custom, business-specific models (e.g., blocking competitor m", "context": "five years working in content moderation", "use_case": "removing PII from images", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: SafeKey \u2013 PII redaction for LLM inputs (text, image, audio, video)"}]}, {"label": "Image quality", "summary": "Described as producing the highest-quality images and beating rivals on a hard test prompt.", "quotes": [{"id": 744604523, "item_id": 46537782, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537782", "by": "mythz", "date": "2026-01-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Also find Nano Banana/Pro (Gemini Flash Image) to consistently generate the highest quality images", "excerpt": "Gemini CLI is too slow to be useful, kind of surprised it was even offered and marketed given how painful it is to use. I thought it'd have to be damaging to the Gemini brand to get people to try it out, suffer painful UX then immediately stop using it. (Using it from Australia may also contribute to its slow perf) Antigravity was also painful to use at launch where more queries failed then succeeded, however they've", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI"}, {"id": 765699600, "item_id": 47856225, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856225", "by": "neom", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "none of them are nearly as good as Nano Banana.", "excerpt": "Here is my regular \"hard prompt\" I use for testing image gen models: \"A macro close-up photograph of an old watchmaker's hands carefully replacing a tiny gear inside a vintage pocket watch. The watch mechanism is partially submerged in a shallow dish of clear water, causing visible refraction and light caustics across the brass gears. A single drop of water is falling from a pair of steel tweezers, captured mid-splas", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Livestream"}]}, {"label": "Visual annotations", "summary": "Follows edits better when arrows or bounding boxes are drawn on the image.", "quotes": [{"id": 786758384, "item_id": 49172399, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172399", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I thought Nano Banana did a great job!", "excerpt": "I thought Nano Banana did a great job! I used a trick I saw someone describe elsewhere where I inserted the annotations on the photo / google street view of the scene. It seems like the model does a better job of instruction compliance when you annotate on the image itself rather than provide text. So an arrow to place the penny farthing guy and so on.", "context": "", "use_case": "annotated image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"}, {"id": 734792256, "item_id": 45924516, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924516", "by": "Genego", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I made nano-banana accept my bounding boxes. Everything is possible with some good prompting", "excerpt": "No I am using my own workflows and software for this. I made nano-banana accept my bounding boxes. Everything is possible with some good prompting: https://edwin.genego.io/blog/lpa-studio < there are some videos of an earlier version there while I am editing a story. Either send the coords and describe the location well, or draw a box around the bb and tell it to return the image without the drawn bb, and only the re", "context": "", "use_case": "AI image editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}, {"id": 734772960, "item_id": 45923310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923310", "by": "Genego", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I actually send an image with a red box around where the requested change is needed. And 8 out of 10 times it works well.", "excerpt": "Yes, the prompt is composed of 7 different layers, where I group together coherent visual and temporal responsibilities. Depending on the scene, I usually only change 3-5 layers, but the base layers still stay the same; so the scenes all appear within the same story universe and same style. If something feels off, or feels like it needs to be improved, I just adjust one layer after the other to experiment with the re", "context": "", "use_case": "storyboard image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}]}, {"label": "Marketing images", "summary": "Used for product listing photos, event posters and cover images.", "quotes": [{"id": 751036913, "item_id": 46939807, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939807", "by": "idopmstuff", "date": "2026-02-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "using Nano Banana for listing images and whitebox photos", "excerpt": "I left my job as a PM a couple of years ago to start acquiring small e-commerce brands that sell on Amazon. I'm currently running those, and mid-acquisition on one. Because they're relatively low-effort (Amazon is terrible for sellers in many ways but man do they provide an incredible amount of infrastructure), that leaves me plenty of time to play with AI, and it just so happens that the business serves as a giant, ", "context": "runs small Amazon e-commerce brands", "use_case": "product listing images", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)"}, {"id": 751131280, "item_id": 46945705, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945705", "by": "akashbangad", "date": "2026-02-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use gemini nano banana model to create event posters for instagram", "excerpt": "I build an AI automation that finds cool things to do in my city, which is stockholm and updates the website every night along with updating the website with the events it also automatically publishes top 5 events to instagram. I use gemini nano banana model to create event posters for instagram link to site - https://sortberry.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "generating event posters", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)"}, {"id": 734834994, "item_id": 45927187, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927187", "by": "jojogh", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Powerful generative tools like Midjourney and nano banana have shown us the magic of natural language.", "excerpt": "As a busy founder, my time is my most valuable asset. My days are a constant juggle between architecting our SaaS platform, leading our go-to-market strategy, and my family life. I have to work 60+ hour a week, often until 11 PM, only to wake up at 6:30 AM to get my kids to school before my workday starts at 8:00 AM. I'm also deeply involved in our marketing, which means writing technical articles and sharing them on", "context": "busy SaaS founder", "use_case": "image generation and editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Is Canva too manual and slow in the age of generative AI?"}]}, {"label": "Storyboards", "summary": "Used to keep characters and style consistent across storyboard frames for video.", "quotes": [{"id": 734734128, "item_id": 45920883, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920883", "by": "taylorhughes", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use nano banana extensively to build video storyboards", "excerpt": "We use nano banana extensively to build video storyboards, which we then turn into full motion video with a combination of img2vid models. It sounds like we're doing similar things, trying to keep images/characters/setting/style consistent across ~dozens of images (~minutes of video). You might like the product depending on what you're doing with the outputs! https://hypernatural.ai", "context": "builds a video product", "use_case": "video storyboards", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}, {"id": 734772960, "item_id": 45923310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923310", "by": "Genego", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I actually send an image with a red box around where the requested change is needed. And 8 out of 10 times it works well.", "excerpt": "Yes, the prompt is composed of 7 different layers, where I group together coherent visual and temporal responsibilities. Depending on the scene, I usually only change 3-5 layers, but the base layers still stay the same; so the scenes all appear within the same story universe and same style. If something feels off, or feels like it needs to be improved, I just adjust one layer after the other to experiment with the re", "context": "", "use_case": "storyboard image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Spatial prompts", "summary": "Repeatedly fails some geometric and grid-based prompts.", "quotes": [{"id": 765752096, "item_id": 47859506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859506", "by": "justani", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I have a few cases where nano banana fails all the time, even gpt image 2 is failing.", "excerpt": "I have a few cases where nano banana fails all the time, even gpt image 2 is failing. A 3 * 3 cube made out of small cubes, with a small 2 * 2 cube removed from it - https://chatgpt.com/share/69e85df6-5840-83e8-b0e9-3701e9233244 Create a dot grid containing a rectangle covering 4 dots horizontally and 3 dots vertically - https://chatgpt.com/share/69e85e4b-252c-83e8-b25f-416984cf3040 One where Nano banana fails but gp", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Livestream"}]}, {"label": "Text rendering", "summary": "Rendered Chinese text far worse than GPT Images 2.0 in one test.", "quotes": [{"id": 765843969, "item_id": 47865248, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865248", "by": "curious1008", "date": "2026-04-22", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I used NanoBanana and Images 2.0 to generate the same written article in Chinese as IMAGES", "excerpt": "I have tried Images 2.0 and I believe it does a way better job than the other image generation models. For example, I used NanoBanana and Images 2.0 to generate the same written article in Chinese as IMAGES, GPT does 100x better at rendering all the Chinese characters despite having minor mistakes.", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Livestream"}]}, {"label": "Backgrounds", "summary": "Cannot reliably generate transparent or solid backgrounds for pixel art.", "quotes": [{"id": 737629008, "item_id": 46101813, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101813", "by": "IgorPartola", "date": "2025-11-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it cannot seem to generate transparent backgrounds or even solid ones", "excerpt": "This is perfect! I have had such a time with Nano Banana asking it to generate some very simple pixel art. One of the worst things is that it cannot seem to generate transparent backgrounds or even solid ones. It\u2019s always some blotchy cloud of off-white pixels or a simulated fuzzy grid that shows up in some places. I will need to give this a try to clean up some of what I had to try by hand.", "context": "", "use_case": "generating pixel art", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust"}]}, {"label": "Not authoritative", "summary": "Output shows how something could look and may need a designer to finish.", "quotes": [{"id": 783948576, "item_id": 48996786, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996786", "by": "paradox460", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used it recently to explore a few placements of a pool and glass building on my property.", "excerpt": "I used it recently to explore a few placements of a pool and glass building on my property. It's not authoritative, by any means, but it did answer some questions And at this level it's barely any different than an architectural render, more for \"how could this look\" rather than \"how will this look\"", "context": "", "use_case": "visualizing property changes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"}, {"id": 783868560, "item_id": 48991785, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991785", "by": "LogicFailsMe", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use nanobanana 2 to test changes in paint and flooring/tiling to great success.", "excerpt": "I use nanobanana 2 to test changes in paint and flooring/tiling to great success. And the real pro move is taking those images to a designer to tweak the remaining 20% or so.", "context": "", "use_case": "visualizing paint and flooring changes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"}]}, {"label": "Inconsistent edits", "summary": "Targeted edits work about 8 out of 10 times and need careful prompting.", "quotes": [{"id": 734772960, "item_id": 45923310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923310", "by": "Genego", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I actually send an image with a red box around where the requested change is needed. And 8 out of 10 times it works well.", "excerpt": "Yes, the prompt is composed of 7 different layers, where I group together coherent visual and temporal responsibilities. Depending on the scene, I usually only change 3-5 layers, but the base layers still stay the same; so the scenes all appear within the same story universe and same style. If something feels off, or feels like it needs to be improved, I just adjust one layer after the other to experiment with the re", "context": "", "use_case": "storyboard image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}, {"id": 734792256, "item_id": 45924516, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924516", "by": "Genego", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I made nano-banana accept my bounding boxes. Everything is possible with some good prompting", "excerpt": "No I am using my own workflows and software for this. I made nano-banana accept my bounding boxes. Everything is possible with some good prompting: https://edwin.genego.io/blog/lpa-studio < there are some videos of an earlier version there while I am editing a story. Either send the coords and describe the location well, or draw a box around the bb and tell it to return the image without the drawn bb, and only the re", "context": "", "use_case": "AI image editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}]}, {"label": "Surpassed by rivals", "summary": "One commenter found it less impressive after trying Seedance 2.", "quotes": [{"id": 754690801, "item_id": 47168175, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168175", "by": "Mizza", "date": "2026-02-26", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Nano Banana was technically impressive the first time, but after Seedance it's not really.", "excerpt": "Check out Seedance 2: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance2_0 Nano Banana was technically impressive the first time, but after Seedance it's not really. It's all just an internet pollution machine anyway.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"}]}], "who": [{"by": "doctoboggan", "context": "runs a custom fingerprint jewelry business", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993717", "date": "2026-07-21"}, {"by": "sarreph", "context": "builds website branding extraction", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960141", "date": "2026-04-30"}, {"by": "idopmstuff", "context": "runs small Amazon e-commerce brands", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939807", "date": "2026-02-08"}, {"by": "bored-developer", "context": "building an AI wallpaper app", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779969", "date": "2026-01-27"}, {"by": "itake", "context": "five years working in content moderation", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46143443", "date": "2025-12-03"}, {"by": "jojogh", "context": "busy SaaS founder", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927187", "date": "2025-11-14"}, {"by": "taylorhughes", "context": "builds a video product", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920883", "date": "2025-11-13"}], "tags": ["for remodel mockups", "for e-commerce images", "for game sprites", "for video storyboards", "for marketing graphics"], "use_cases": ["image generation", "annotated image generation", "visualizing property changes", "cleaning up fingerprint images", "visualizing paint and flooring changes", "bathroom remodel mockups"], "compared": [{"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gemini-flash", "name": "Gemini Flash", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gpt-image-2", "name": "GPT Image 2", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "opencv", "name": "OpenCV", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "midjourney", "name": "Midjourney", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852835", "title": "OpenAI Livestream", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917875", "title": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989701", "title": "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937696", "title": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167113", "title": "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993414", "title": "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 3, "warn": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 2}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "compare": 1}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 2, "compare": 2}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 3}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 786758384, "item_id": 49172399, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172399", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I thought Nano Banana did a great job!", "excerpt": "I thought Nano Banana did a great job! I used a trick I saw someone describe elsewhere where I inserted the annotations on the photo / google street view of the scene. It seems like the model does a better job of instruction compliance when you annotate on the image itself rather than provide text. So an arrow to place the penny farthing guy and so on.", "context": "", "use_case": "annotated image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"}, {"id": 783948576, "item_id": 48996786, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996786", "by": "paradox460", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used it recently to explore a few placements of a pool and glass building on my property.", "excerpt": "I used it recently to explore a few placements of a pool and glass building on my property. It's not authoritative, by any means, but it did answer some questions And at this level it's barely any different than an architectural render, more for \"how could this look\" rather than \"how will this look\"", "context": "", "use_case": "visualizing property changes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"}, {"id": 783899472, "item_id": 48993717, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993717", "by": "doctoboggan", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "nano banana is the first model that is able to do the task (it is astonishingly good at it)", "excerpt": "I have a side business selling custom fingerprint jewelry and I use gemini nano banana to clean up customer submitted fingerprint images. This was a step I used to do by hand at 10 - 15 minutes per image and nano banana is the first model that is able to do the task (it is astonishingly good at it). I can't wait to see what the next nano banana can do, hopefully its released soon.", "context": "runs a custom fingerprint jewelry business", "use_case": "cleaning up fingerprint images", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"}, {"id": 783868560, "item_id": 48991785, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991785", "by": "LogicFailsMe", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use nanobanana 2 to test changes in paint and flooring/tiling to great success.", "excerpt": "I use nanobanana 2 to test changes in paint and flooring/tiling to great success. And the real pro move is taking those images to a designer to tweak the remaining 20% or so.", "context": "", "use_case": "visualizing paint and flooring changes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"}, {"id": 779837680, "item_id": 48739855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739855", "by": "VectorLock", "date": "2026-06-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Nano Banana to make some mockups for a bath room remodel I'm doing and it worked pretty great.", "excerpt": "Using it for \"staging\" shitty rentals is pretty gross, but I used Nano Banana to make some mockups for a bath room remodel I'm doing and it worked pretty great.", "context": "", "use_case": "bathroom remodel mockups", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana 2 Lite"}, {"id": 774761538, "item_id": 48422596, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422596", "by": "leoncos", "date": "2026-06-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The best solution now is to directly use Nano Banana or other AI image models.", "excerpt": "When I use Codex/Claude to complete a computer vision task, such as extracting assets from an image, OpenCV is their default solution. However, I believe that using YOLO and other methods is outdated. The best solution now is to directly use Nano Banana or other AI image models. A paper has proven that image generation models can perform most CV tasks well. I believe the new OpenCV should become a wrapper for VLM or ", "context": "", "use_case": "computer vision tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"}, {"id": 767362256, "item_id": 47960141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960141", "by": "sarreph", "date": "2026-04-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Nano Banana 2 [gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview] especially is adept at performing arbitrary operations on images.", "excerpt": "I've been working on an adjacent problem (extracting website branding data from a URL) for the past year, and previously had to rely on procedural techniques such as these -- props to the author! However, models are now getting to the point where we are starting to learn the bitter lesson[0] even with stuff like color-palette generation. Nano Banana 2 [gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview] especially is adept at performing", "context": "builds website branding extraction", "use_case": "extracting color palettes from images", "switched_from": "", "story": "Creating a Color Palette from an Image"}, {"id": 765843969, "item_id": 47865248, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865248", "by": "curious1008", "date": "2026-04-22", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I used NanoBanana and Images 2.0 to generate the same written article in Chinese as IMAGES", "excerpt": "I have tried Images 2.0 and I believe it does a way better job than the other image generation models. For example, I used NanoBanana and Images 2.0 to generate the same written article in Chinese as IMAGES, GPT does 100x better at rendering all the Chinese characters despite having minor mistakes.", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Livestream"}, {"id": 765752096, "item_id": 47859506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859506", "by": "justani", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I have a few cases where nano banana fails all the time, even gpt image 2 is failing.", "excerpt": "I have a few cases where nano banana fails all the time, even gpt image 2 is failing. A 3 * 3 cube made out of small cubes, with a small 2 * 2 cube removed from it - https://chatgpt.com/share/69e85df6-5840-83e8-b0e9-3701e9233244 Create a dot grid containing a rectangle covering 4 dots horizontally and 3 dots vertically - https://chatgpt.com/share/69e85e4b-252c-83e8-b25f-416984cf3040 One where Nano banana fails but gp", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Livestream"}, {"id": 765699600, "item_id": 47856225, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856225", "by": "neom", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "none of them are nearly as good as Nano Banana.", "excerpt": "Here is my regular \"hard prompt\" I use for testing image gen models: \"A macro close-up photograph of an old watchmaker's hands carefully replacing a tiny gear inside a vintage pocket watch. The watch mechanism is partially submerged in a shallow dish of clear water, causing visible refraction and light caustics across the brass gears. A single drop of water is falling from a pair of steel tweezers, captured mid-splas", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Livestream"}, {"id": 761460977, "item_id": 47591311, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591311", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2026-03-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Here's an example of where I demonstrate generating better sprite sheets with NB:", "excerpt": "Nice job. FYI there have been a couple of attempts at an RTS LLM Arena with varying degrees of success. Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47149586 Show HN: RTS for Agents https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649853 And of course there's a ton of research into more traditional forms of AI playing RTS games such as Alphastar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/", "context": "", "use_case": "generating pixel art sprites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Shards of Stone \u2013 A Warcraft 2-inspired RTS that runs in the browser"}, {"id": 756393873, "item_id": 47274617, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274617", "by": "KaiserPister", "date": "2026-03-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Or you can just ask Nano-Banana for sprite sheets and it does a pretty good job!", "excerpt": "I'll shill this project again: I built myself a small sprite generator because I'm a terrible artist. If you're looking for pixel-art sprites, check out 8bitsmith.com. Or you can just ask Nano-Banana for sprite sheets and it does a pretty good job!", "context": "", "use_case": "generating sprite sheets", "switched_from": "", "story": "LibreSprite \u2013 open-source pixel art editor"}, {"id": 754690801, "item_id": 47168175, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168175", "by": "Mizza", "date": "2026-02-26", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Nano Banana was technically impressive the first time, but after Seedance it's not really.", "excerpt": "Check out Seedance 2: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance2_0 Nano Banana was technically impressive the first time, but after Seedance it's not really. It's all just an internet pollution machine anyway.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"}, {"id": 751131280, "item_id": 46945705, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945705", "by": "akashbangad", "date": "2026-02-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use gemini nano banana model to create event posters for instagram", "excerpt": "I build an AI automation that finds cool things to do in my city, which is stockholm and updates the website every night along with updating the website with the events it also automatically publishes top 5 events to instagram. I use gemini nano banana model to create event posters for instagram link to site - https://sortberry.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "generating event posters", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)"}, {"id": 751036913, "item_id": 46939807, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939807", "by": "idopmstuff", "date": "2026-02-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "using Nano Banana for listing images and whitebox photos", "excerpt": "I left my job as a PM a couple of years ago to start acquiring small e-commerce brands that sell on Amazon. I'm currently running those, and mid-acquisition on one. Because they're relatively low-effort (Amazon is terrible for sellers in many ways but man do they provide an incredible amount of infrastructure), that leaves me plenty of time to play with AI, and it just so happens that the business serves as a giant, ", "context": "runs small Amazon e-commerce brands", "use_case": "product listing images", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)"}, {"id": 748511954, "item_id": 46781997, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781997", "by": "smeej", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "when I was trying to prompt Nano Banana to generate something", "excerpt": "As a person who's worked in support roles in tech companies and has a working familiarity with Python but is not a software developer or engineer at all, it's been fascinating to watch the changes. In the last couple weeks, both Gemini and Claude have asked me, \"Can I use the computer?\" to answer some particular question. In both cases, my question to each was, \"What computer? Mine, or do you have your own?\" Here I h", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"}, {"id": 748479505, "item_id": 46779969, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779969", "by": "bored-developer", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "From a technical standpoint they\u2019re very solid.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve always had a thing for wallpapers. Back in the Windows era, I\u2019d spend hours browsing and changing them constantly, even making my own. Same with Winamp skins. At some point I started using 3D software like 3ds Max just to experiment and create visuals for myself. Later I got into photography and ended up creating a few wallpaper packs, some sold on Etsy, some given away on Unsplash and similar sites. Point is, t", "context": "building an AI wallpaper app", "use_case": "wallpaper generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Realism vs. style in AI image models (lessons from building a wallpaper app)"}, {"id": 746128016, "item_id": 46633001, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633001", "by": "soared", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Nano banana was better than any tool I found when I used AI to come up with landscaping visualizations.", "excerpt": "Easier to just use your preferred llm with image editing capabilities. Nano banana was better than any tool I found when I used AI to come up with landscaping visualizations.", "context": "", "use_case": "landscaping visualizations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Simpler than Photoshop but for free AI Landscaping"}, {"id": 744604523, "item_id": 46537782, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537782", "by": "mythz", "date": "2026-01-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Also find Nano Banana/Pro (Gemini Flash Image) to consistently generate the highest quality images", "excerpt": "Gemini CLI is too slow to be useful, kind of surprised it was even offered and marketed given how painful it is to use. I thought it'd have to be damaging to the Gemini brand to get people to try it out, suffer painful UX then immediately stop using it. (Using it from Australia may also contribute to its slow perf) Antigravity was also painful to use at launch where more queries failed then succeeded, however they've", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI"}, {"id": 738295089, "item_id": 46143443, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46143443", "by": "itake", "date": "2025-12-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "than using nano-banana to remove non-compliant features (like pii) from the images", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve spent the past five years working in content moderation. In my opinion, the real gap in the market isn\u2019t \u201cbetter safety models\u201d. it\u2019s turn-key orchestration platforms that provide: - A web portal for manual moderation and data-labeling workflows - Multi-tier moderation checks (e.g., if a keyword is detected, escalate to an LLM) - Simple integration of custom, business-specific models (e.g., blocking competitor m", "context": "five years working in content moderation", "use_case": "removing PII from images", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: SafeKey \u2013 PII redaction for LLM inputs (text, image, audio, video)"}, {"id": 737629008, "item_id": 46101813, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101813", "by": "IgorPartola", "date": "2025-11-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it cannot seem to generate transparent backgrounds or even solid ones", "excerpt": "This is perfect! I have had such a time with Nano Banana asking it to generate some very simple pixel art. One of the worst things is that it cannot seem to generate transparent backgrounds or even solid ones. It\u2019s always some blotchy cloud of off-white pixels or a simulated fuzzy grid that shows up in some places. I will need to give this a try to clean up some of what I had to try by hand.", "context": "", "use_case": "generating pixel art", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust"}, {"id": 734834994, "item_id": 45927187, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927187", "by": "jojogh", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Powerful generative tools like Midjourney and nano banana have shown us the magic of natural language.", "excerpt": "As a busy founder, my time is my most valuable asset. My days are a constant juggle between architecting our SaaS platform, leading our go-to-market strategy, and my family life. I have to work 60+ hour a week, often until 11 PM, only to wake up at 6:30 AM to get my kids to school before my workday starts at 8:00 AM. I'm also deeply involved in our marketing, which means writing technical articles and sharing them on", "context": "busy SaaS founder", "use_case": "image generation and editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Is Canva too manual and slow in the age of generative AI?"}, {"id": 734792256, "item_id": 45924516, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924516", "by": "Genego", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I made nano-banana accept my bounding boxes. Everything is possible with some good prompting", "excerpt": "No I am using my own workflows and software for this. I made nano-banana accept my bounding boxes. Everything is possible with some good prompting: https://edwin.genego.io/blog/lpa-studio < there are some videos of an earlier version there while I am editing a story. Either send the coords and describe the location well, or draw a box around the bb and tell it to return the image without the drawn bb, and only the re", "context": "", "use_case": "AI image editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}, {"id": 734772960, "item_id": 45923310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923310", "by": "Genego", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I actually send an image with a red box around where the requested change is needed. And 8 out of 10 times it works well.", "excerpt": "Yes, the prompt is composed of 7 different layers, where I group together coherent visual and temporal responsibilities. Depending on the scene, I usually only change 3-5 layers, but the base layers still stay the same; so the scenes all appear within the same story universe and same style. If something feels off, or feels like it needs to be improved, I just adjust one layer after the other to experiment with the re", "context": "", "use_case": "storyboard image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}, {"id": 734734128, "item_id": 45920883, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920883", "by": "taylorhughes", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use nano banana extensively to build video storyboards", "excerpt": "We use nano banana extensively to build video storyboards, which we then turn into full motion video with a combination of img2vid models. It sounds like we're doing similar things, trying to keep images/characters/setting/style consistent across ~dozens of images (~minutes of video). You might like the product depending on what you're doing with the outputs! https://hypernatural.ai", "context": "builds a video product", "use_case": "video storyboards", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}]}