Show HN: I'm 17 and I created an iOS app to hide one photo within another

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14 points·mike_eirinberg··11 comments

What does your age have to do with the app? Isn't that just irrelevant information?

Yes, irrelevant.

I think it's relevant. I like browsing the Show HN section to see what kind of stuff people build, and I'm curious about the people building the stuff. I look at things differently when they are made by a high school student vs someone who has been working in the industry for a couple of years. For example, I wouldn't complain that there are lot of similar competing apps when it's clear that this is someone just trying to build their first app...

Give the kid a break. He's making an app, let him show it to people - antics aside.

It is, but honestly most of HN is r/iamverysmart

I would be careful about sharing opinions like this on HN. The Politically Correct crowd on HN will tell you to "stop being a hater"and that you need to demonstrate hopeless optimism and positivity or you can excuse yourself from all discussion.

There is no room in modern discourse for criticism - not when peoples' feelings are at stake.

This is great! Others your age smoke and use drugs... Until they realize how quickly time passes, it will be too late.

> The app works by minutely altering the first photo to conceal the other.

What does this mean?

From the end-users perspective, I guess they still need the app to do this, at which point you could just send two images and no one would know anyway - and it'd save you some time.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Digital_messages

Yup, on point. This is a method of Steganography.

Very Snapchat-esque. Lots of room for improvement for UI, and social.

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