Show HN: AI to make people smile for 4 seconds

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4 points·jonathanmv··4 comments

This is great. The biggest challenge is how to get it in front of people when they need it. Maybe it needs to be like those apps that stop you from using your computer for 5 mins every hour: your computer locks every hour, and you must smile for 10 seconds (4 is too short!) to unlock it.

The sharing feature you have is good, but it will likely only work once or twice per sad recipient.

Oh rhimanathwani, thank you very much for your comment. It's such a great idea that one of having the computer unlock only after you smile for at least 10 secs! It's genius.

This website was a quick test but i can see that it has many other applications. I will keep in mind your suggestion.

Your link doesn't appear to be working on Android Chrome. It goes to a "Something is not working" page, from there I can click on the about button, and then "ready to smile" button, and that works.

However, it had a really hard time detecting my smile even when I smiled as big as I could. Have you tested it with beards? My beard is fairly short but I thought it might be the issue.

TipVFL I made a mistake yesterday and introduced a bug that showed an error screen by default... That's why you might have seen that message. I also open the site from Android Chrome.

Regarding the beard, I haven't done many tests (a don't have bear on my own) but the service I use behind scenes is Amazon Rekognition (https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/image-features/) so there's not much I can do in order to improve the service

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