--- title: How we make Ty | daily.dev description: Tigris Data uses AI-generated illustrations featuring their mascot Ty the tiger for blog post cover images. The creative process involves distilling a post's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-make-ty-79i1bnjfz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How we make Ty | daily.dev og:description: Tigris Data uses AI-generated illustrations featuring their mascot Ty the tiger for blog post cover images. The creative process involves distilling a post's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-make-ty-79i1bnjfz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/79I1bnJfz.png og:image:alt: How we make Ty og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How we make Ty **[Tigris](https://daily.dev/sources/tigris)** · 6 min read · 14 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tigris Data uses AI-generated illustrations featuring their mascot Ty the tiger for blog post cover images. The creative process involves distilling a post's key insight into visual concepts, then iteratively refining prompts with GPT-4's image generation model. To streamline this workflow, they built Tygen, an open-source tool using Go, HTMX, OpenAI API, and Postgres that automates image generation and stores outputs in Tigris object storage. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#golang](https://daily.dev/tags/golang), [#genai](https://daily.dev/tags/genai), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#htmx](https://daily.dev/tags/htmx) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-make-ty-79i1bnjfz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How we make Ty","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-make-ty-79i1bnjfz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-make-ty-79i1bnjfz"},"datePublished":"2025-10-07T18:54:56.509Z","dateModified":"2025-10-07T18:55:19.113Z","description":"Tigris Data uses AI-generated illustrations featuring their mascot Ty the tiger for blog post cover images. The creative process involves distilling a post's...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/fa6f6901009c06498a7066efb20239dc?_a=AQAEulh","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/fa6f6901009c06498a7066efb20239dc?_a=AQAEulh","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Tigris","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Tigris","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--A5ku_6TS--/f_auto/v1716186679/logos/tigris","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tigris"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-make-ty-79i1bnjfz","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":14},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,golang,genai,openai,htmx","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tigris","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tigris"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How we make Ty"}]} ```