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Hey Hacker News community! I'm thrilled to share with you my latest creation - Photovatar, the ultimate avatar generator app powered by state-of-the-art AI models like sczhou/codeformer and pollinations/modnet.

With Photovatar, you can easily generate custom avatars with just a few clicks. The app allows you to remove unwanted backgrounds, define custom backgrounds, and even increase photo quality. And the best part? It's completely free, and you can build your own! Our app is perfect for anyone looking to create personalized avatars for their social media profiles, blogs, websites, and more. We've also made it super easy to accept payments and top-up credits with Stripe integration(test mode)

Stripe test cards: Card number: 4242 4242 4242 4242 Expiration date: Any future date (1234) CVC: Any 3 digits (567)

Give Photovatar a try, and let us know what you think! Feel free the share any feedback and question. Contribute the example repository with issues and pull requests.

Live demo: https://www.photovatar.com

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Warning: If you sign up (i.e.: via Google) there is no option (that I have found) to delete your account again.

Feedback: Please enable me to delete my account again or point me in the right direction.

For all the "AI-powered" hype, I expected a lot more than an automatic background removal tool. It doesn't even do a good job around the edges - there's a noticeable halo, especially around hair.

Tried it, not all that impressed to be honest. This is just a glorified background remover. Even trying out the add background feature, it's just some pre-generated gradients (no custom) or a solid color (custom). Downloading the result, it doesn't look that great. Bad aliasing, low-res[0].

You also say this in your OP:

> Contribute the example repository with issues and pull requests.

You make it sound like this is open-source, but I see nothing about this.

Echoing the other comments: allow me to delete my account, I don't want to have to email anyone.

Really don't know why this has been upvoted so much...

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/eiacVKd.png

Can we aggregate all the other ai avatar generators for comparison, why is this one climbing up the front page?

> Is my data secure?

> Yes, we take data security seriously and have robust measures in place to protect user information.

I think if you're going to mention this, you should add more information.

This vague response makes it look shadier than if you didn't mention this at all.

This is exactly the sort of boilerplate my non-technical cofounder constantly made me sign off on before talking with a big potential enterprise customer.

The other thing I always had to sign off on is saying "we'll be SOC compliant by X" knowing we had no plans to.

In iOS you can just long hold over any person in an image and it will be extracted perfectly from the background.

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