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Comment by tristanho | Hacker News Reader

Wow, this is just such a great idea. Dan (author) if you're reading these comments, you should definitely sell these cameras as a product.

Also would love to see some side-by-sides of an actual image and the Draw This photo.

EDIT: installing the project locally right now -- will see if I can generate some side-by-sides :)

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Get the Flintstones license, make it look like it was carved in rock by a dinosaur inside the camera.

This is one of the greatest toy idea of the century, and yet I'm sad that it's never going to see store shelves.

I think it depends on the market. Younger kids I would imagine aren't familiar with a 50 year old cartoon.

I very much want to see side by side samples. Also the ability to buy would be pretty cool.

I recommend starting with an app...

Given these cameras are:

* Fairly easy to make, a la github instructions

* Can command a _very steep_ margin per sale, compared to an app

* Offer (imo) most of the product value by being something physical/tangible you can show to your friends

* Polaroid cameras are surprisingly popular https://www.wsj.com/articles/fujifilm-zooms-in-on-instaxs-re...

I think I'd have to disagree here!

OTOH if it’s even mildly successful someone will clone it in app form within a week anyway, which will almost certainly crush hardware sales. (Why pay $99 for a gimmicky camera when a $1 app does basically the same thing? All my friends are on Instagram anyway.)

I say just get the app out there first and try to make up for the lower price per unit with volume. If it becomes truly popular and there’s demand for physical prints then rebadge and sell a commodity Bluetooth printer.

It's probably gonna be for the gift market. Also parties, weddings etc, keep one on each table for fun

An app that does this would lose its novelty pretty quickly I think. The delight comes from a black box spitting out a physical piece of paper with the drawing on it.

I mean, that might also lose novelty after a few uses, but it would always be a conversation starter and a cool thing to leave on your coffee table.

There are already many deep-learning based image processing apps, including ones that apply style transfer.

Yeah I'd buy this as a gift in a heartbeat

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