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Alano is an open-source cat mascot built to fix a specific problem: AI-generated websites all look like the same because they lack character. A mascot is a perfect solution - use it in onboarding flow, chatbot, wherever. This repo pins each generation to fixed reference images and a locked style prompt, so the same mascot stays consistent across new poses, scenes, and short videos. Includes the reference set, generation scripts, and post-processing (cutouts, loops). Free for commercial use.
I built Alano for our own CRM and kept noticing the same problem in other AI-built apps: the backend works, the UI works, but nothing about it feels specific to the product. Swap the logo, and most of these apps look the same.
So I'm open-sourcing Alano, the cat mascot from our app. Code is MIT. The character assets are under a free mascot license: use it commercially, adapt it, put it in your app - just don't resell the files or claim the character as your own.
Right now the repo has the mascot in a few poses, plus the reference images and prompts we use to keep the character consistent across new generations. More brand assets (icons, splash screens, onboarding illustrations) are next.
Repo: github.com/Pursuitli/alano-mascot. Happy to answer questions.
love that you locked in fixed reference images to keep the look consistent across new poses, that's the kind of detail most mascot kits skip and it makes all the difference
Having a mascot changed your product BIG TIME. Give a little character to it, make it more likeable, liveable - and much more loveable. Why not?
Finally something that solves the cat inconsistency problem with image models. The locked style prompt plus fixed reference set is exactly what I needed for my side project clips.
finally something that actually keeps a mascot looking like itself across different poses, basically plugged in the reference images and it just worked without me fiddling for an hour
Super useful approach to the consistency problem. One thing that would really help is a small web playground where you can drag in a scene description, see the locked style prompt applied automatically, and preview the result with the reference set before running scripts locally. Would lower the bar for designers who don't want to touch the CLI just to test a pose.
A LoRA training pipeline baked in would be huge so people can fine tune on their own character without wrestling with ComfyUI separately.
The consistency angle is the real win here. One thing that would make this even more useful is a small SDK wrapper, something like Python or JS, so I can drop the reference-locking logic straight into my existing pipeline instead of running the scripts by hand each time.
About Alano Mascot on Product Hunt
“A free, open-source cat mascot for your app”
Alano Mascot was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 20 upvotes and 16 comments, placing #35 on the daily leaderboard. Alano is an open-source cat mascot built to fix a specific problem: AI-generated websites all look like the same because they lack character. A mascot is a perfect solution - use it in onboarding flow, chatbot, wherever. This repo pins each generation to fixed reference images and a locked style prompt, so the same mascot stays consistent across new poses, scenes, and short videos. Includes the reference set, generation scripts, and post-processing (cutouts, loops). Free for commercial use.
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