I shipped www.imgto3d.ai a few months ago. It's an AI-powered 3D model generator: you upload an image, pick a generator (upscale, denoise, face recovery, or full restoration), and get back a .glb file you can drop into Blender, Unity, or straight into a web page.
The AI backend part — calling Replicate, polling for results, handling credits — was straightforward. The part that actually made me lose sleep? Getting those generated 3D assets to render smoothly inside a Next.js app without turning the user's phone into a hand warmer.
This is the story of how I built the frontend, and the specific performance tricks I had to pull to make browser-based 3D preview not feel like a PowerPoint from 2003.
What the Product Actually Does
ai3dgen.com runs four generators:
