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jacobgc··on Show HN: Stella Foster – iMessage on Any Phone
yes, Stella Foster app (daemon) is running on the mac, iMessage, and the laptop needs to be opened, and running. We pass it to you through Stella Foster’s phone number
jacobgc··on AI Will Disrupt Tinder
As a dating product, I do think that the rubber needs to meet the road and facilitate actual dates. And if all dates on your platform ends up being with duds that were only able to seduce AI and have no transferable IRL qualities then I don't think the platform will be successful longterm.

So I think the winning product here will be find the right balance

jacobgc··on Show HN: Turn Your Thoughts into a Newsletter
The idea is that it does not seem like it is written by AI. Everything that is written is based off of original thoughts of the author that were shared with the AI via a voice conversation.

I have been making many long form posts using the app and I do not say that it is written using AI and people do not notice.

jacobgc··on When to leave a company to start your startup
Lol that's what most people do
jacobgc··on Show HN: I built a site to transform faces into a baby and 99 other things
Hey! Here is a bit more detail about my site:

About: A lot of people want to know what their baby with their partner would look but it seemed like all the tools out there were either very bad and/or were behind a paywall, so me and my two other teammates built a product to fix that.

It is called Mixmatch: a free product where you can create images of what your baby would look like and much more. Here are some details:

Model: We are using the newly released PuLID model. It is very fast and cheap to run but the output can be a little inconsistent. Given the inconsistent output we have hand curated a dozen or so high quality seeds for each of the filters that we have on our site. This has made the output far more reliable but still far from perfect.

Filters: Right now we have 15 categories of filters and 99 filters in total, all of which have been written by us with curated seeds. We have decided to not make the prompting open ended for the inconsistent output from this model along with very NSFW capabilities it has. Some of my personal favorite filters are; Mug shot, Jet Ski, Smurf, Baby (obviously), Professional Headshot (but adding in a celebrity so our faces are blended), and Clown.

Hosting: We are running the model on Fal.AI - they have been amazing!

Privacy: All faces are deleted from our DB after 1 year and are not used for anything other than creating images for you and you only.

Pricing: The website is totally free. This model is very inexpensive to run and our business is able to cover the costs of operating the product.

Feedback: We just launched this website today and we have lots of things to polish up and improve. If you have any feedback we would love to hear it and we will do our best to quickly implement it :)