What Is tinyBots.net?

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tinyBots.net is the personal project hub of developer Dave Schumaker, described on the site as "home of fine internet projects." It's not a product or a platform you sign up for — it's a landing page that links out to a handful of small, mostly generative-AI and bot-driven web experiments. If you're looking for a single tool, you won't find one here; if you want to see what one developer has built with Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, and procedural generation, this is the index.

What's actually on the site

The homepage is a simple list of projects, each with a one-line description. Based on the page content, the current lineup is:

Project What it does
ArtBot A free service that uses an open-source Stable Diffusion distributed cluster ("AI Horde") to generate AI art
Real Fake News You supply headlines; it calls OpenAI's ChatGPT API to write a matching news article, then tries to generate a relevant image via AI Horde
Mr. RossBot A Twitter bot that posts a new Bob Ross–style Stable Diffusion landscape every hour
Just Triangles A Twitter bot that procedurally generates random triangle patterns using color palettes from colormind.io; you can also generate triangles directly on the site
Random Sandwiches A "book" of 1,449.5 random sandwich recipes, created for NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) 2017, with source code on GitHub

Who it's for

  • Curious browsers who want quick, low-commitment examples of generative AI and bot projects in the wild.
  • Developers interested in how AI Horde, the ChatGPT API, or procedural generation get wired into small side projects — the Random Sandwiches source is public on GitHub.
  • People who want a free AI art generator — ArtBot is the one project described as a free service, though the site itself doesn't detail limits, queues, or account requirements.

What it isn't

The site gives no pricing page, no signup flow, and no product documentation. ArtBot is described as free, but that description is the only pricing signal on the page — nothing else about cost, accounts, or usage caps is stated. Treat the other projects as demos and bots rather than services with support or SLAs.

How to use it

  1. Go to tinybots.net.
  2. Pick a project from the list based on what you want — AI image generation (ArtBot), AI text-plus-image generation (Real Fake News), or just to look at bot output (Mr. RossBot, Just Triangles).
  3. Follow the project's own link; each one lives at its own address, and some (the Twitter bots) are meant to be watched rather than operated.

The main thing to know: tinyBots.net is an index, not an app. Its value is as a compact showcase of one developer's experiments at the intersection of generative AI, Twitter bots, and procedural content.