Playbooks 12 min read· 21 Aug 2026· By Playbooks
Building an image generation SaaS
Architecture for a scalable image gen product — queueing, storage, CDN, moderation.
The image gen call is one line. Everything else — queueing, storage, moderation, CDN — is the actual product.
The pipeline#
- Queue: BullMQ / Sidekiq / Cloud Tasks
- Generate: TokenBaazar image endpoint
- Store: S3 or R2 (cheap, CDN-friendly)
- Moderate: pre-prompt filter + post-image classifier
- Serve: signed URLs, 24h expiry