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Show HN: YourPictureGetsMine.com

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This is a direct rip-off of my service nakedescrow.com, developed in the wake of the Greg Oden scandal. I'm livid, my large income stream is threatened.

That's an unusual issue to solve! What kind of instances do you see it being used in? Online dating?

Also, on your first page, there's a typo in the word 'directly'

The idea came from a friend that uses craigslist for dating. I see that it might provide a safer alternative for exchanging photos with strangers. Thanks for noticing a typo. I am not a native speaker. I already corrected that.

Another typo: "Wait for reciver" should be receiver

What if one person sends a pic of some celeb or a cat?

Yes, perhaps it should be renamed "anyrandomimagegetsmypicture.com"?

Just any random picture won't do. But I admit that if the picture is one of a person, then you still might get scammed.

How's it doing that? Automated scan for flesh-tones or facial recognition or something else?

Both parties are able to see blurred thumbnail sized pictures, before the exchange commences.

Great idea with the blurring solution.

But, being really honest, I'd say the biggest issue confronting you right now is design: it does not look professional or trustworthy. When your brand is based on a notion of trust (that's essentially what you're offering to mediate), you need to be very sensitive to the elements of design that help establish that.

Thanks. It is still work in progress. I am happy that I putted up on HN first, getting a lot of feedback. I know now what should I focus on next. And changing design would be one of those things.

Hmm... 1. Ok i understand the usecase, but the website itself looks spooky..probably bcoz a,Design-- the frame surrounded by so many pics b, am just biased due to the the goth look on the front page pic.. 2.spelling mistake at step 3 receiver not reciver(i recommend using a spell-checker. bad spelling raises the spooky component)

Typos aren't as bad as bad grammar. I can immediately correct typos in my mind as I read the text. I have to parse the sentence first to correct grammar.

Butchering of English aside, the service can't deliver unless it's human moderated which it can't be.

I don't really see how the human moderation would help. You still cannot make sure if the picture that one of the parties is trying to send is actually his/her real picture.

Maybe also checking against a reverse image search to reject publicly available photos?

I'm not disagreeing with anything you're saying, but if you're going to be a grammar/spelling nazi, you could at least take the time to format your comment in a reasonable fashion.

I would welcome any suggestions about website. Just write it here, or email me at kowalkowski.michal@gmail.com.

Cheers

Very interesting concept, I think it will be popular if it gets noticed with your target group.

Have you thought about how to prevent people gaming the system? What if someone uploads a blank image with no photo? Do you know if there is any way to automatically detect if an actual face is uploaded through some image analysis?

Creating an face recognition system would be next step, first I want to see if there is a demand for this kind of a website. The way it is done now is, that both parties of the exchange have the access to (blurred) thumbnail sized pictures of the other party. So they can judge for themselves, if the picture is one of a person or not.

Blurred thumbnail is a great solution. Best of luck to you.

You could take a look at face.com for a face recognition API. Have only used it for some demo apps and it worked alright.

If I don't want to send a picture of me, I can still upload a "sample.jpg" & trick the other person into sending me a picture. This doesn't solve the issue.

Am I missing something?

Authenticating images would be nice problem to solve along side this.

So a user might upload a couple of images on your site and somehow have to prove it's them before they are exchangeable.

This is a really good idea. Thanks for your comment!

idea is great! but could use other colors for the template (low priority)

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