The app is in a perfect niche for preventing the human conditions that lead to the #1 stressor of potentially-sick human beings: Researching it on the internet.

The title makes sense. Anyone with facial skin conditions is extremely sensitive about them, almost universally across humanity. It's not the hook I would have chosen - "AI medical apps can use photos to tell you to stop or start worrying more accurately than your friends".

This entire category of apps is a godsend, because it lets human beings go from "I'm worried about X, but not enough to see doctor Y" to "I'm worried about X, so let's try app Z". Humans will try anything once^ if it lets them be lazy about something^^, and I can think of at least X skin things that I'll check out as soon as I can get ahold of this app.

Because that's how we are. Monkeys preening, gone deluxe form. It's not a criticism, but giving us an app that lets us preen ourselves and get reasonably sound advice back is pretty cool. Half the point of bandages is to shield our brain from being able to see a wound, so that it stops obsessing over it.

This app is certainly going to give better advice than I'd get from a random stranger, because they (probably) have scientific method. If I was going to go to a doctor for X, I would have already. And a random stranger likely has a higher error rate than their neural network.

Also, I can't begin to convey how great it is to be able to show an app my skin instead of another human being. Humans are scary. Apps aren't, for better or for worse. If the app says I need a doctor, fine, I'll go.

^ for example: video games that use electric current, dance dance revolution with fire jets, jumping from space in a spacesuit with a parachute ^^ bad examples :)

Cool idea but AI needs ton of work - it mistook the reflection of my glasses on my skin as a scar. Other stuff didnt seem accurate also.

YC advise in this case seems horribly misplaced - no point doubling your users every week if your core doesnt work.

Also, you need to provide a feature to allow users to delete their photos. Not everyone is ok with being a guinea pig.

I don't think this is very useful. It's not very hard to self-diagnose minor skin issues. You need a dermatologist for something more serious.

Wow, horrible title. Save Indians the blushes?

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

A sensible title would be more like: Shortage of dermatologists in India could be remedied with AI.

"I have no idea what that is supposed to mean."

save (one's) blushes

via: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/

"To prevent someone from feeling embarrassed or awkward."

It still doesn’t make any sense. There’s nothing in the article that suggests Indians are shy about seeing a dermatologist, which is what the title implies.

Its for an Indian audience... you are reading connotations into a word based on a foreign context.

If the article was "AI-enabled dermatology app aims to save Americans embarrassing visits to the doc" would you still feel weird about it? I see headlines like "X aims to help Americans do Y" all the time, no complaints.

To an Indian audience, "Indians" is roughly synonymous to people.. pretty neutral word.

I’d still think it was weird. Dermatology issues don’t seem embarrassing to me. I could see it making more sense in the context of sexual issues.

Plenty of people get embarrassed about things like this. It doesn't need to be suggesting Indians are more embarrassed than others because this is an Indian startup launching a product in India.