Show HN: It Was Never You
Hi HN! I made my first iOS app - users can swap out an ex or friend for someone else in their photo library.
I did this as a bit of a lark. I hope you find it entertaining, at least. At its most serious, it’s a Black Mirror-esque note on the future we’re enabling in the AI age. It’s not an app I’d ever use or recommend people use.
I suppose that’s the question I’m asking myself, and now you, with this - while I intentionally built something I wouldn’t want to see in the world, how are you dealing with the feeling that software you build is or isn’t making the world a better place?
What a weird time to be alive!
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Not to be too critical, but this appears to go beyond just a satirical PoC.
It’s an art project - a provocation. Beyond a PoC is flattery it truly doesn’t deserve imo
My definition of a tech provocation would be a plain website, showcasing the idea and potentially exaggerating to prove point. I think the point of making a website, seemingly making a full app, putting it on the App Store, and setting up a paid plan seems to have intention to provide a real product.
But alas, I am salt cube using a paper map so my path may be wrong and salty
do you have more apps like that? satirical-type apps?
I'm not sure trying to re-imagine your past with someone else is really ever a good idea. We get to where we are by the road we travel. But hey...a funny face swap can always be good for a laugh.