What happens after the image is generated?
Notes from building the less visible parts of CreaTrades.
When I visited e-commerce businesses in 2025, one business described product-image sets costing around RMB 1,000. Just as striking was the time spent communicating and making revisions. It was one encounter, but it gave our team a concrete problem to work on.
At CreaTrades, my backend work connects model requests to tasks, stored results, reusable assets and credit quotations. Each part affects what a person can do next: find a result, revise it, continue a workflow or understand its cost.
That work has made me pay closer attention to continuity. A generated image is one moment in a longer process. The surrounding system needs to carry the user’s choices from that moment into the next.
I now want to investigate a related interaction question: when a seller changes direction, what should an agent keep, question or reopen? Engineering a usable workflow gives me a place to ask that question. It does not, by itself, establish which answer works best.