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Snappr Photo Analyzer — AI that tells you if your profile pic is actually any good
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@cpresc Thanks Chris! Not sure if the brainstorming was exactly like that but we definitely wanted something that was engaging!
Slick interface. I like how the categories are broken down with 3 simple criteria - fewer or more would be less convincing.
Though this is clearly not the purpose of the app, I would be wary about what perceptions are used as truth in the model. In the wrong hands (for instance a tool like this on the hiring side instead of the individual side) could carry out existing biases.
@ggnall Hi Graham, thanks for the kind comment + thoughtful insight. I guess the analyzer is helping to bring some of our unconscious biases to the surface, which I think is always a good thing!
@bradenhamm Hey Braden! All you gotta do is give a bit more of a smile and I think you can rank in the top 10%.
Wow, congrats on this launch. Inviting, effortless experience and clean UI. As a user, you quickly taught me something new about myself -- always fun. As a product person, you also seamlessly parlayed that into an intro to your paid service -- well done! (btw 74/100. My perfect jawline and I will take it!)
@edecaria Thanks for the feedback Ed. 74/100 is much better than my 69/100! ^_^
81/100 #winning
This is really detailed. Marks photos based on things I've never even heard / thought of. eg. "squinching" which apparently I am an ace at.
@shimmb Nice job! Just ran the numbers, and based on the people who've used the analyzer so far, that puts you in the top ~98% of scores. Thanks for leaving the comment :)
@mdschiller Finally I succeeded at something. Although I didn't take the picture...
I'd love to see some examples of 100/100 (or near to it).
@shimmb Here's the distribution of scores so far if you're interested: http://bit.ly/score-distribution Nobody pushing beyond the 90 barrier...
Fun tool, reminded me of the OKCupid and Coffee Meets Bagel photo analyzers. Your tweet, linkedin, and facebook posts aren't pre-filled btw. Also, one of my pictures got a N/A, but that may be because you couldn't see my face. Either way, great work and look forward to seeing what else you guys come up with
@_andrewlee Thanks Andrew! The bug with the OG images on sharing has now been fixed, thanks for spotting!
@danthevc Thanks Daniel! Really happy that you liked it! Let us know if you have any feedback or feature requests!
It's good for the world that we care about whether people's photos are good enough.
@arlogilbert Hey Arlo - you make an interesting point. The way we look at it is that Linkedin is just a virtual way for us all to engage and communicate with each other. Some photos are better than others in how they help build a human relationship via the digital platform, and that's what we are trying to help out with!
Only for Linkedin?
Would be keen to try this out for other platforms but being in the tech world, I can't say that Linkedin is that much of a priority for me personally.
When can we expect to see this for other sites?
@bentossell Thanks for the question! On the results page, you can upload alternative photos (not just from LinkedIn), but it will still judge them for their likely impact in a professional context. We have started work on a dating photo version too!
@mdschiller @bentossell Why not to add FB and Twitter even in professional context? This is not very complicated to do. Linkedin is banned in some countries, just saying...
@vladzima Thanks for the suggestion, appreciate it! Wasn't aware of this ban. The reason we focused on LinkedIn was that the AI was trained on the type of professional photos that tend to be used there, not on more 'social' photos. That might be something we look at for a future release! But the good news is you can upload ANY photo for analysis from the results page, as long as you have a LinkedIn account to get you there :)
@mdschiller @vladzima Trhing to upload a "custom" photo gives me a very strange error? "Sorry, LinkedIn's systems are experiencing an error and we can't pull your photo. Try again later." Since I've used a picture from my pc, how is this possible?
Matt and Ed presented Snappr at a Product Hunt Sydney event. Back then, they demoed the main photographer-customers march making mechanism of the app. Utilising a photo analysing AI tool to tell you how effective your headshot is, takes off a lot guess work, which is great.
I wonder what principles the analyser uses to draw its conclusions (just in general terms)?
All in all, great product and value add, and hopefully you can demo it at a future phsyd event.
@elbahnasy Thanks Iz! As far as general principles, the focus was on things that drive perceptions of professionalism. The analyzer steers clear of things that we don't have the ability to change.
So quick and clean for something so insightful! When is the dating one coming out? ;)
@philippehong Thanks mate, very kind :) No launch date yet for a dating photo analyzer, but hopefully in around 2 months. If you need urgent help with your Tinder game, we'd be happy to give you early access to a testing version ;)
@theleovogel Servers seem to be coping with the load ok, so if it keeps happening its probably something else. If you PM me your photo link I'll test it out and send you the result :)
@theleovogel If it is free, you are the product. I'll give them credit, their privacy policy is very up front about their intentions.
- We may disclose personal information to: third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services (including but not limited to booking services) or direct marketing to you. This may include parties located, or that store data, outside of Australia including in the United States of America
- We collect and use the information for purposes including: for marketing including direct marketing; to run competitions or offer additional benefits to you; to send you promotional information about third parties that we think may be of interest to you; and for data analytics purposes.
Totally impressed by the speed and accuracy in recognizing all face features. More so on the profoundly detailed feedback and improvement suggestions. Way to go team!
Also love how you guys are using this free tool to market your photography service - reminded me of Hubspot's marketing strategy. Very smart!
@edricsub Thanks Edric, very kind! There were two cool free tools (both non-photographic) that gave us a bit of inspiration at the outset: TestMySite by thinkWithGoogle, and WordStream's free AdWords performance report: https://testmysite.thinkwithgoog... http://www.wordstream.com/ Would be grateful if you could share the analyzer with everyone at Vopo and Twitter :)
Looks awesome!
@mdschiller What's a perfect photo? Its good to show an example too.. Eg: When you say there's not enough squinch, please show one which is perfect and one which is bad. So we will get an idea.
Just my 2 cents. Take it or trash it :D
@surjithctly Thanks for the comment! @bradleyengel made a similar suggestion earlier in the week, and its now made its way onto our roadmap :) Here's some good/bad examples from @edkearney in the meantime: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/7...
@kallefreese Thanks Kalle! Once the team got past the concept and started building, we broke the back of it (80/20 style) in around 2 weeks. Then polished it for around 2 months (low-intensity) leading up to today :)
My profile pic is ~7 years old (here's why I haven't changed it).
I just tried this out and scored a 68/100. Not the worst. 😛
@rrhoover Definitively agree with you Ryan, I have not changed my Twitter avatar since day 1 (2006), and it's not even me on it :P
I have a score of 67/100 on my Linkedin photo, could be worst too.
Curious to see how are scoring the "pro-CV-mugshot" people/companies are sometimes offering.
@rrhoover Also fully agree. I've used the same profile picture for Twitter, LinkedIn, and About.me since I first created these accounts. Not sure if it's as important for LinkedIn, but I figure consistency doesn't hurt.
@rrhoover Don't worry, you'll get a score bump when we add the 'retro charm' attribute into the formula ;)
@rrhoover I've had my avatar as-is for 8 or 9 years, and I'll likely never change it for exactly the same reason. It's meant to be iconic, not photographic.
Better than mine, I got:
"There was an error with your image. In fact, it appears to be an album cover. Please try another image. Or maybe you don't have an image - why not book a Snappr?"
Guess I should put out an album.
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