Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool

Re:Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool by aruggirello on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @04:09AM (#18705366)

Great job! As a note, I think you will likely collect lots of deep links to "missing" pictures over time as your service becomes popular - you already got two such links on this page in a few hours...

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Re:Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool by Tuxa on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @07:30AM (#18706000)

We are not an image hoster after all. Too many problems would be coming along also.

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Re:Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool by joeyespo on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @09:58PM (#18712653)

Makes sense!

One idea for the "enter a URL" path. If you save the image URL for a longer time period, you could give the viewer the option to re-run that URL and perhaps save it to that location for another hour.

Or show a message like what Flask's logo does when you right-click it the first time [0]. e.g. "Note: Direct linking will not work. This image will disappear from our servers in an hour." (Possibly with "Click here to post to Twitter instead," which can help "persist" an image while spreading the site a bit further in the process.)

[0]: http://flask.pocoo.org/

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Re:Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool by toast0 on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @09:50AM (#18706694)

You might want to make it more obvious that pictures aren't linkable by doing something like returning the image from a POST (might make for bad UI) or returning the image as a data url.

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