It’s about this time last year that I finished working on the prompt generator and the Prompt Juice website.
I had actually forgotten exactly when I stopped working on it. It felt like longer than a year ago. The only reason I remembered the timing is because I saw a post on X from around this time last year where I had said something like, “Hey, I made this thing.”
Using ChatGPT, I created an image prompt generator via a plugin. As of right now, the prompts it kicks out are random. Perhaps I will incorporate Ai in the future so the prompts contain more logic.
— Waylon Piper (@WaylonPiper) January 27, 2025
I do remember having an extended break around then—either around Christmas or New Year’s—where I had a few extra days off. That stretch of time is when I wrapped up the plugin and the site.
The plugin itself did not take very long—maybe just a few days. By that point, I had already done most of the work on the website with ChatGPT’s help. After that, the idea for the plugin came pretty naturally.
The idea came from using Artspace.ai a lot to generate images and pulling prompts from Hugging Face. Inside Artspace’s generator, there were all these different elements you could select—artists, styles, boosters, and so on. The tricky part was always figuring out what to select and how many to include. That’s where the idea for a prompt generator came from.
I considered three ways to build it. One was making it a GPT that lived right inside ChatGPT. Another was building a WordPress plugin, which I was more comfortable with. The third was creating a standalone generator that worked like Hugging Face. I went with the plugin because it felt like the right fit.
As I worked with ChatGPT on the plugin, I had to redirect it a few times. For instance, I’d give it a list of fifty artists, and it would only include twenty. I noticed because the prompts it generated started to feel repetitive. Once I figured that out and made sure it included everything, the plugin worked as intended.
That was when I realized I could tackle more complex projects. Enter the Sudoku generator, or just the general idea that I could code things that felt more involved.
And actually, just a few days ago, we made a kind of version two of the plugin. We narrowed the scope even more to get the outputs tighter. It was a small update, but it made the generator work even more the way I wanted.
So that was the second real step into coding with ChatGPT. Nothing too advanced, but enough to make me comfortable. And from there, it eventually led to the Sudoku generator and everything else I’ve done since.
