https://x.com/BennyKokMusic/status/1968325785158394089
I'm open-sourcing the entire ComfyDeploy platform again. Yes, our entire YC company.
And we are officially moving on from ComfyUI. The community will decide what's next for ComfyDeploy.
Below is an abstract; for more, head to the open source repo below.
Existing customers will not be affected; more details are in the repo. The service will continue to run until the last customer remains.
For those who are new, ComfyDeploy is a cloud service that deploys ComfyUI, provides a simplified interface, and an API to creative teams.
How did we get here?
In late 2023, I started ComfyDeploy as an open source project while I was working at my previous company. We had a problem deploying ComfyUI to our production server because of the complexity involved in integrating it into a serverless environment.
I posted here about this little project that I was working on as an indie hacker, and it blew up overnight. I woke up to 100k impressions on the post. I put up my cal link, and people started scheduling calls. I had the opportunity to speak with numerous individuals worldwide, including those who reached out to help or potentially utilize ComfyDeploy.
We got into YC with ComfyDeploy around 2.5K MRR.
Around the same timeframe, ComfyOrg was introduced, Stability collapsed, and Flux just came out.
We continued building ComfyDeploy for months, keeping things going.
The company was growing, but very slowly. We realized the biggest issue is that we are still really early, and it takes time for businesses and enterprises to really adopt such a niche tool. And we are not ComfyOrg.
Meanwhile, closed-source models dropped, and many workflows we knew became no longer useful.
Coming from a game developer background, I saw huge potential with ComfyUI at first. Still, I never would have imagined that one giant model could do precisely what you put into words, and you still need workflows to fine-tune and control the exact outputs. ComfyDeploy made it possible for teams to experiment with this.
But we were stuck in the middle. First, we are not ComfyOrg; second, closed-source models were doing things way better and slowly eating up the market.
As of today, ComfyDeploy is doing $29k MRR, and our last 30 days' revenue was $50k processed. Which is the highest we have ever got, but also the most depressing day I have ever had.....
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025