Show HN: Live Dangerously – 1-for-1 anonymous photo sharing via SMS
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I think most social media sites do this by default but I wish they were more selective about it. Okay to scrub GPS location if present but copyright/photographer/exposure details, etc, are all helpful and should be kept if at all possible.
I've never gotten a dick pick... I feel left out! Ha.
Being able to for example, send a picture of a book knowing I'd get one back would be pretty nifty. Food would be a popular topic for swapping pics judging by the main page.
It's like posting to a subreddit, but super low friction (no title, no finding the appropriate subreddit, etc). Really nifty idea
Well, unless you want to use geolocation and match them up by location. Think of all the romance you could spark of you knew what sort of genitalia people sending were hoping of receiving.
joking aside, while i agree with your model, i'd be curious to see cases where users get trapped in these auto-identified sub-worlds of obscenity. I imagine as we get better at content recognition this model will become more prevalent, and thus innocent crossfire will be more commonplace (even if to the tiniest degree).
Interesting times we're heading into
I think the danger element more refers to just putting yourself out there and sending a photo to a stranger and not knowing when or what you will receive back. It could be beautiful artwork, nature, cute animals, or something more strange or challenging. That's the danger part.
Anything that crosses the line will be immediately removed and appropriate action taken.
Negativity follows!
Not sure what it's for? Seems like it's trying to get a corpus for training image recognition - but then I can't rate the tagging of images or highlight when they've failed (like one of the "car" images is an aeroplane interior).
I can't link to a tag page. The images loading are shifting about and re-ordering which I find quite discombobulating and distracting. Some images -- someone's takeaway of indiscernable type -- that are loading for the front-page are quite large, 800+kB to show me a thumbnail. I hope you're not paying by the byte!
When you say anonymous, what's the scope of that? I see your are using Twilio - does that mean you can tell Twilio to drop all logs of the sender details of the images? If I have a group of people send large images can I DDoS the site?
It's only an experiment right now, so it's not built for anything specific at this point. There are some interesting ways to take it, but I wanted to see how it was used first. As you suggest, the ability to a further curate through the website would be great. One idea is some kind of stock photography site with users receiving a cut?
The frontend definitely needs polish and some architecture upgrades, as you pointed out. I wanted to see if anyone actually used it before putting more time in, but the feedback today has been encouraging.
As for anonymity, it's anonymous between users, but some basic Twilio data (phone number, city, state) is stored with your user account on my end.
As for attacks, Twilio provides some high level security, but beyond that I'm sure I could easily be hosed if someone were inclined. It's a hobby project, so the resources would fail pretty quickly under a sustained attack, and what fun is that?
Thanks for taking a look and the time to provide your thoughts.
Interesting service, I initially thought of it as a pen pal for the modern day where I'm linked to another account 1to1 instead of just receiving images from a stream. The rating aspect is unclear if 1 or 5 is better, I'm assuming 5 is better? Kinda fun but I'd be worried about receiving too many low quality pictures and I'd ignore posting again.
You already rated the last photo you received. Send another photo and wait for the response before submitting another rating.
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