faceshapeapp
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on?
on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:44PM (#25784729)
https://www.faceshapeapp.com/
It's a social network centered around beauty and self-improvement that also includes ML tools for detecting facial features.
Re:Next.js 9.2
on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:37PM (#22058957)
next.js is such a joy to work with, congrats on the new version! It's constantly improved, the team is very responsive on github, looking forward to getStaticProps and getServerProps to make offline website generation even better.
Re:Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:31PM (#21277249)
Simply sorting by date doesn't really seem to be that useful either.
For example, the poster below showed the following link for the "ml" query: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
If you look at the results, the first 2 results only matched part of the poster's username and many of the top results here are empty threads which are not that useful since HN is mostly for discussions.
To be clear, I'm not saying it's all bad, just pointing out that there are low hanging fruits which can improve results quite a bit.
Also, Algolia seems misspelled in your query which is why it fails when reordering by date: https://imgur.com/a/pO9fBWr, it works otherwise. Although, it says the date is 1 day old when it's just 2 hours old.
Re:Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:18PM (#21277137)
The results aren't necessarily better because of the Google knowledge of you, because they are pretty good results even in Private browsing without being logged in.
It just seems to me that HN search does a simple keyword matching and reordering based on points without any ranking (please someone correct if I'm wrong).
So freshness doesn't seem to have any value, but the reality is that, at least in tech, very few content is evergreen. Also, when you try to reorder by date for example, you'll end up with a lot of empty threads which again are not that useful. I'm not sure if there's a way of eliminating empty threads from search results.
Re:Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:10PM (#21276509)
Congrats to the team!
Although, am I the only one who finds that searching HN through Google gives better results than searching it through the Algolia powered HN search?
For example, search "ml" in both, Algolia results are years old and don't seem that relevant, whereas Google picks up more recent threads.
Re:AWS’ Sponsorship of the Rust Project
on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:43PM (#21254817)
This was posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21251102
Re:PyTorch Mobile
on Thursday October 10, 2019 @02:59PM (#21218005)
This is super exciting! I wish they also had browser support without having to go through onnx.
Re:A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation
on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @08:07PM (#21209561)
For one of my projects, I looked and manually labeled thousands of pictures, yet this issue never came up until people were actually using pictures coming from their smartphones.
Re:A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation
on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @08:06PM (#21209550)
I ran into this issue while developing https://www.faceshapeapp.com where user uploads their photo and face detector is run on top of the picture. Shortly after launching about 10% of users complained having rotated images, after some debugging, I discovered that it was due to exif rotation.
You could parse the exif and rotate the image using canvas, but thankfully, there's already a JS library which does it for you: https://github.com/blueimp/JavaScript-Load-Image.
Re:Ask HN: How to retain users for a one-time use app?
on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @07:49PM (#21142046)
I'm not charging anything. I'd rather keep building it so that it's more useful to related activities, but not sure how to go about it.
Re:Ask HN: How to retain users for a one-time use app?
on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @07:48PM (#21142038)
That's actually a great example, thank you!
Re:Ask HN: How to retain users for a one-time use app?
on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @07:48PM (#21142028)
Yes, it tells them which face shape they have.
Ask HN: How to retain users for a one-time use app?
Hello everyone,I recently launched a side project I've been working on, while it gets between 500-1000 users per week who actually do use it, it struggles with retention which makes sense since there's only one feature which gives a result back and you have no more use for the app. I get anywhere between 2-7% of users come back the next day and it quickly drops on days 2+.I'm trying to figure...