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Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI
- chaychoong 3y agoLooks oddly similar to https://headshotai.studio/ https://headshotai.studio/, some of their FAQ answers are exactly the same too. Not sure if they are owned by the same person, or if one of them copied the other.
- JCharante 3y agoMaybe they used a LLM to generate their faq page? Has ChatGPT been known to reiterate content word for word ala github copilot?
- neom 3y ago72 hour turn around?!?!?! Seems an awfully long time, these days most studios will have the photos turns around within 30 minutes (at least where I live) I'm surprised to see 3 day turn around time.
- dannypostma 3y agoYeah they copied my other product, https://www.profilepicture.ai https://www.profilepicture.ai.
- echelon 3y agoThere's no moat around profile pictures, not even good execution. Gotta keep building, Danny. Go! Go! Go!
- dannypostma 3y agoSprinting to get more unique stuff out!
- andrewstuart 3y agoThere’s hundreds maybe thousands of profile picture AI startups.
- 1xdevloper 3y agoI wonder if those testimonials and the pictures in the copycat's website are AI generated too...
- entropyie 3y agoI really expected to see some "before" shots to understand the value of the solution. For all I know, the input photos were already great...
- adammarples 3y agoThey're the little images above the big images
- junon 3y agoThey're there, just above them. Super tiny, so it's understandable they were missed.
- dannypostma 3y agoTime to make the little before images more clear. Cheers!
- JCharante 3y agoI'm in the progress of trying it out and they recommend uploading pictures taken with a "professional" camera (and they're very adamant that if you upload bad quality pictures then they won't refund you).
- lofaszvanitt 3y agoWhen will people fn learn that smiling is a rare thing. Do not smile, no matter what the idiotic photpographer asks you when creating your corpo headhsot.
- junon 3y agoOr, you know, let people do what they enjoy doing in photos.
- lofaszvanitt 3y agoThe last thing people do on a photo when they are in the crossfire of multiple lights and someone holding a half a kilo dslr is smiling.
- swyx 3y agolike this 1900s dude https://nextshark.com/19th-century-photo-eating-rice https://nextshark.com/19th-century-photo-eating-rice
- halfmatthalfcat 3y agoIs this a joke? Smiling is bad now?
- nanidin 3y agoIn Russia and in France, smiling at strangers is frowned upon.
- lofaszvanitt 3y agoNot a joke, but it makes me shudder when people have these borderline idiotic smiles/psycho grin on their faces stickied somewhere on the page while I'm reading their blogs. The worst are the google dev video thumbnails. I mean, those are horrible, like straight from a bad horror movie. It's like when people show their nonexistent body/beautiful life on Instragram, just fake.
- TheObviousOne 3y ago[dead]
- dannypostma 3y agoHad to protect myself and join the fight ;)
- TheObviousOne 3y agoWell, look at you! Joining the fight like a superhero. Don't forget to wear your cape and mask next time for extra protection! ;-) https://www.metuktakim.co.il/yoda.jpeg https://www.metuktakim.co.il/yoda.jpeg https://www.metuktakim.co.il/pilot.jpeg https://www.metuktakim.co.il/pilot.jpeg https://www.metuktakim.co.il/gym.jpeg https://www.metuktakim.co.il/gym.jpeg https://www.metuktakim.co.il/upload_images-eng https://www.metuktakim.co.il/upload_images-eng Game is on!
- dusted 3y agoOh that's terrible. As if people didn't already look artificial enough ?
- nanidin 3y agoThe copy is inconsistent on what you get and how much it costs. In one place: > All photoshoots include > 120 headshots per person > 3 unique locations per shoot > 4K photo size Then the individual shoots have different counts included per tier, some less than indicated for “all photoshoots” on the same page.
- chillbill 3y agoHere to say that I hate websites that break the browser's back button.
- quickthrower2 3y agoGlad you made it back to say that though!
- fersarr 3y agoha :)
- chillbill 3y agoTabs
- quickthrower2 3y agoAlso: browser bar, type n, press enter, scroll to find original submission
- chillbill 3y agoNo
- skerit 3y agoHow did it break for you? Seems to work fine on Firefox.
- cpach 3y agoInteresting concept. The rendering of the shirt buttons could use some improvement.
- rahul_nyc 3y agoI would prefer supporting a local photographer.
- vages 3y agoSure. But this is a good replacement when your team is in different physical locations.
- deepspace 3y agoAhem, as far as I can tell, the site creates individual headshots, not team photos, so the team members could each just support a local photographer at their own physical location, no?
- dewey 3y agoI thought the benefit of a site like that would be a uniform look for a distributed team. If everyone contacts their local photographer they will all have different tints, formats, sizes and backgrounds.
- rzzzt 3y agoSupport a remote photographer to adjust each local photographer's input into a coherent style.
- petters 3y agoHaving the style and background be the same might be desirable.
- anon7725 3y agoThanks for mentioning this. AI is poised to disrupt the work of many people, including creatives such as photographers, writers, illustrators, etc.
- jossclimb 3y agoMe too, as its kind of obvious AI has had a part in this. I don't know how, maybe its because I am on the site of topic and its auto-suggestive, but I get that AI vibe.
- holub008 3y agoDoes this dilute the headshot currency in the professional marketplace? If anyone can generate a flawless, idealized photo of themself, surely it reduces the signal headshots once provided: that you have the means to pay a photographer & are willing to invest the time / give a damn about appearing professional. It might also damage the sense of identity they provide, if the generated images wander too far from reality of the source images.
- dewey 3y agoMost companies strongly discourage you from submitting headshots already. At this point, it's considered unprofessional to submit a picture on an application.
- wingerlang 3y agoThis is highly location specific. In Thailand it's more or less required to include it.
- hosteur 3y ago> At this point, it's considered unprofessional to submit a picture on an application. Really? This does not match my experience (Europe) Quite the contrary actually.
- Yoric 3y agoMy experience (also Europe) tends to agree with GP. :shrug:
- vladvasiliu 3y agoWhere in Europe? Over here in France, it's not that common. I've never had a picture on any of my applications. I don't handle hiring, so I don't get to see many CVs, but the last time I saw some (mid-2022), they didn't have a picture, either.
- RugnirViking 3y agoive had a very mixed, in fact I would go so far as to say polarized, experience with it across varius european countries.
- keizo 3y agoI follow you and Pieter Levels on twitter. Some wild things you guys create -- the control net things are unreal. I am continually impressed and inspired. If you're looking for critiques or improvements stating "Indistinguishable from real photos" seems a stretch as good as they are. Even if I were to use ai photos, I'd never try to pass them off as real. Seems dishonest. I'd push more towards a new thing, not sell as replacement for proper headshots. In that way, I'd think stylized things would do better, ie make it a piece of art. But also I'm def not target customer and you already seem to be doing quite well. Good on you for building so much.
- t344344 3y ago> I'd never try to pass them off as real. Seems dishonest With photo-shopping, makeup, plastic surgery... AI generated photos are ethical.
- darkwater 3y ago> With photo-shopping, makeup, plastic surgery... AI generated photos are ethical. Correction: are just as ethical.
- twayt 3y agoCorrection: just as unethical
- etrautmann 3y agoMake up is unethical?
- super256 3y agoThis depends on what the makeup is made up of.
- not-chatgpt 3y agoTo generate realistic looking headshots, you need high quality training data (i.e. high quality headshots) of the person. Then what's stopping them from using stable diffusion and stylize those existing photos in the first place?
- Aeolun 3y agoOr you can just take decent pictures? Is this really something we need? I dunno, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth somehow. Like we’re replacing the things that should be uniquely human with something fake.
- dsco 3y agoGreat. You spend 10 minutes trying to take a decent headshot and get back to us with how fun it was. I’m not saying the product will be the next Facebook, but boy does it solve a very niche and annoying problem.
- forgotusername6 3y agoIt took me well over an hour to get a new directory photo of myself that I still hated. Lighting was bad, I looked tired, blemishes etc.
- dusted 3y agoYou were tired, you had blemished, light was terrible.. sorry, but that's probably how you look.. And.. THAT'S OKAY! We're humans, that's how humans look.
- shubhamjain 3y agoAlthough impressive, many of the photos shown can't be passed off as authentic headshots. Many of the photos linked in the landing page itself have issues. Example [1]. But even if I ignore them most of them, there is something off. Maybe I am biased because I know it's AI-generated, but I also feel they look too polished for the real world. The facial skin isn't generally this perfect. And the bokeh looks like it has been artificially added. I won't say I can point out 100% of the time when a photo has been AI generated. But if I saw a series of them generated with the same software, I don't think it will be too hard. [1]: https://bit.ly/4033epk https://bit.ly/4033epk
- forgotusername6 3y agoThe hands are a dead giveaway that it is AI as opposed to being simply photoshopped.
- Phelinofist 3y agoCan't unsee now: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrcQsBIaEAAYMmb.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrcQsBIaEAAYMmb.jpg
- Gigachad 3y agoThey all have skin that’s too perfect. The images are high resolution and hyper detail but then the skin looks like it was airbrushed on
- harvey9 3y agoJust looks like some background swaps and retouching. With a 2 hour turnaround are they actually using a human and a copy of Photoshop? Technically AI since that's how Adobe does some of it's tools.
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- ICodeSometimes 3y ago2 hour turnaround time implies ya'll are doing it manually behind the scenes?
- RugnirViking 3y agofor 120 pictures per person plus upscaling to 4k thats quite a lot of compute time. If they're running it locally its understandable it might take that long
- sai_c 3y agoI can't help it, but reading Dom McLaughlin's testimony (scroll down to the examples) "...let's just say I'm not the most photogenic person..." makes me want to instantly go out and hunt down every picture of me ever made and nuke it from space :-).
- andrewstuart 3y agoThere seem to be vast numbers of startups being created to make AI avatars and profile pictures.
- atlantic 3y agoGreat idea, and it may really work. The price point looks right for corporate clients, although a lower price point for a small number of photos for private individuals would be nice. Nobody cares if the photo looks a bit retouched. It'll look great on the team webpage or on LinkedIn. Can I make a suggestion? A similar service is needed for dating purposes. Most people on dating websites have awful photos, the kind you take in front of the bathroom mirror. You'd probably need to offer three pictures: one a headshot, another full-body, and a third in a social setting (party, sports, whatever). Offering this service, you might even be able to partner up with major dating sites.
- TheObviousOne 3y agoDo you think those ones are valid: https://www.metuktakim.co.il/dating.png https://www.metuktakim.co.il/dating.png ? It's on different(more localized service in Israel) Called: https://www.metuktakim.co.il/ https://www.metuktakim.co.il/ Which is well-dressed in Hebrew :)
- atlantic 3y agoThe individual himself looks good - a bit of a PUA, but good. One picture with a blurred background is fine (for example, the golfing one) - but all of them is suspicious. And it's important to have at least one picture including other people (although it's acceptable to blur third-party faces in a dating context). Otherwise the guy comes across as a loner; and women are very picky about not dating serial killers.
- atlantic 3y agoBTW, that was a comment on the first set of pictures. The selection on the website is much more complete. It's perfect. But it might be worth inserting additional (AI-generated?) individuals on a few of them.
- dannypostma 3y agoAlright, this has been requested so many times I think it’s time for me to build it.
- okokwhatever 3y agoThe more AI surfaces the more I appreciate the real stuff... I must be quite old and boomer, sorry.
- elforce002 3y agoInteresting. I also have "AI" fatigue. I said on a different post that the "AI" wave is going to create a counter-culture where people will crave for non "AI" products and services. I think one of the reasons is a combo between empathy, self-reflection, and fear.
- kordlessagain 3y agoAt FeatureBase, we did a form with a few prompts building entries for everyone to fill out, which we then sent to Dalle2: https://www.featurebase.com/about https://www.featurebase.com/about More than a few of us didn't want our images on the Internet, so this was a good compromise.
- M4tze 3y agoMade me smile. Team Jacob
- newfie_bullet 3y agoThis is a great idea. Matt Jaffee wins it for me - coffee sloth!
- ashtonmeuser 3y agoIt’s hilarious to me that the most absurd, standoutish picture is Jason, the only human team member.
- z3t4 3y agoI have no problem of photos looking unnatural. Would pay if it made me look like a photo model ;) Would be great to see examples of the pictures people sent in and the results. The examples on the page are clearly rented pictures of photo models taken by professionally photographers.
- dannypostma 3y agoSolid feedback, I’ll build a before/after page first thing tomorrow.
- hammock 3y agoNot to take away from this awesome product and brilliant idea, but we are all hackers here- how can(?) I do this for free?
- TheObviousOne 3y ago[dead]
- hammock 3y agoHow long does it usually take?
- TheObviousOne 3y ago8-72 hours - as beta product we do manually QA (Human in the loop) in addition to our AI-scoring mechanism, so it depends on the traffic to our site. -Due to the fact that only the computation part takes around 2.5 hours. But we have plans to reduce it to below half in hour in this month.
- operator-name 3y ago1. Collect many good quality photos of yourself, in various lighting, directions and settings. 2. Train Stable Diffusion 2.0 to learn this new embedding, this is a bit of an art rather than a science. 3. Find a nice looking prompt with your new embedding that gives you the desired result. 4. Try ControlNet, LoRa, different base models, etc, always questioning your outputs - there's something subtlety off about them... 5. Continue to fine tune your prompt, input, masking and editing ??? N. Realise that it would have been easier to just get a photograper.
- TheObviousOne 3y agoThis is nice for start. You can find colabs for that todo online here: https://colab.research.google.com/github/TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion/blob/main/fast_stable_diffusion_AUTOMATIC1111.ipynb https://colab.research.google.com/github/TheLastBen/fast-sta... Unfortunately, in order to get better result you need to add much more components to perform quality assurance of the photorealism. Which we perform in here: https://www.metuktakim.co.il https://www.metuktakim.co.il much more robust techniques and in-between steps. You can try it for free with coupon:777. We'll appreciate if you happy with the results in your socials, and fill the feedback-form to us to improve.
- Varqu 3y agoHow is this different / better than the other submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35241212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35241212
- dannypostma 3y agoLooks highly inspired by my other product https://www.profilepicture.ai https://www.profilepicture.ai which I launched back in October.
- replwoacause 3y agoI signed up on profilepicture.ai and paid, but have changed my mind before uploading photos. There is no way to contact you through the site for a refund because the live chat isn't working and there isn't a support email. Also, when I search the help desk no content is returned. How can I reach you?
- dagorenouf 3y agoWhat I like about this is that it’s not just an A.I gimmick, it solves a real problem. Aka getting professional pics is stressful, time consuming and expensive. I hope it does well
- gajus 3y agoGave it a try. It is pretty wild https://twitter.com/kuizinas/status/1638173950806200324 https://twitter.com/kuizinas/status/1638173950806200324
- villgax 3y agoThis is something we'll do on our own devices instead of paying anyone a single dime, that was the whole point of stable diffusion
- tomwojcik 3y agoSorry for the bad PR, but Ive been trying to get a refund for a few days now. On Friday I paid for the service but was not aware it requires over 20 specific photos, which I don't have at hand. I haven't used the compute time. I didn't even upload anything. I messaged you under a twitter thread, using the livechat on your website and via the email on the invoice. No response. My email starts with "Tomasz", is similar to my HN handle and is @gmail.com. Please respond.
- akrymski 3y agoNone of these seem to preserve identity well. I doubt stable diffusion is the right model for this. It should be easy to take a single passport photo and then it into a stylistic headshot. Maybe Pix2Pix or similar?