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That was a satisfying part of my day. Thank you.

Most passport rankings count every country as 1 point, so Tuvalu = France.

I made a version where each visa-free door is weighted by how many people actually go there.

So opening France, Spain, the US, China, Turkey etc matters much more than opening tiny islands with Robinson Crusoe as a visitor.

Top result: South Korea, at about 1.45B tourist-arrivals worth of accessible world (thanks to India). Bottom: Afghanistan/Pakistan range, under 50M / 30M. Most open destination: Maldives - 30 day visa for all but Israel. Most overlooked: Burundi - opened the door to the whole world, but nobody came in.

And two more things:

  1. You can compare countries: where can the French go that Belgians can't?

  2. With multiple citizenships, you can build your own passport gang. Will Argentina+Italy beat South Korea?

Health data. That’s why they’re rolling out Chatgpt Health.

https://aiandtractors.com/ - the last iteration of my personal website (the first one was in 1996). I mostly use it to vibe code the hobby projects; the last one is a better passport ranking that brings Korea to the first place, not Singapore: https://aiandtractors.com/passport-ranking/

Median is $360k https://www.salary.com/tools/salary-calculator/ceo-non-profi...

There's British though

Over self-censoring

Stock photography, better selfies, or simply fun. Also, people always invent some use creators never thought about.

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We've built a very similar feature across https://icons8.com content.

What keeps exciting me when you upload a photo of a building and find tiny icons with a somewhat similar architecture, or illustrations, or realistic renders/other photos.

Founder here.

You have correct observations and ask the right questions.

1. We do promote our content. It's not enough to support the development. 2. We could afford a generous freemium. Unlike Figma, Lunacy is resource-efficient and has no pressure from investors. 3. However, collaboration requires cloud, so we'll charge for cloud storage.

TLDR Lunacy will be a highly generous freemium.

Their specs help, but we also support their old format which was basically a dump. We had to reverse engineer it.

Also, we'll import from Figma this fall. You're right, it's never easy. It's a bug valley of countless files that render a little distorted.

Founder here. Could you elaborate on rough typography, please?

Founder here.

A little bit, yeah. Twice the usual installs in the Microsoft Store: https://lun-us.icons8.com/a/mI9C5AKookGuZXtrXLg1Sg/HNVJ3hin3...

Thank you for supporting us; I'm touched.

Thanks for mentioning.

I see your concern and it’s valid. We don’t store anything, but you probably need more warranties than that.

I don’t think it’s the best way to hide. Generated photos are detectable after all, and using a generated photo raises a flag.

But I say it’s good enough for most cases of everyday life:

* Uber drivers chasing attractive customers online

* Jealous ex

* Airbnb and coach surfing

* Classifieds encounters to sell a bike, etc.

It's not.

You can use it for free, just attribute it.

$2.99 gives you a double resolution.

We don't use these photos to train.

I’d like to see the source photo if you don’t mind.

I’ve discovered that in any unclear situation it shows toddlers.

In particular, it happens when the camera distorts the perspective, such as too close or shot with an unusual angle. Precisely, selfies are often fish eyed.

I wonder if a plain, well lit portrait changes it. It must not be essentially a passport photo, but a passport photo would work too.

Of course, that is something to think about in the future releases. So sad, Anonymizer is an experiment made for fun. I wonder if it has a product/market fit. Thoughts?

Right! Or Google Maps — enough of people with the heads in a cloud.

Some of the questions:

How is it done? The images are pregenerated: 2.6M to be precise, all of them are here: https://generated.photos/faces

Technical challenges of better resemblance

We could either pre-generate (see the first comment - it’s an accurate guess), or generate just in time.

The first is way easier - same architecture, more storage (we are moving from instance’s storage to S3 so it will be an easy step).

On-demand generation would be much more expensive as you have to have a GPU server ready, and queue requests. We have it with https://icons8.com/upscaler ; it’s a bit of work and expense.

Additionally, you have to make it a paid service. Any ideas who could pay for that? Our usual customers are https://generated.photos/use-cases

Brad Pitt is not blonde

It definitely has some fitting issues; Brad Pitt is a good example as he dyes his hair. I've googled his hair situation so you don't have to. He most probably has gray hair, dyed dark, then highlighted.

That's a challenge huh! As a result, you can feel some of these guys manipulated hair color: https://i.imgur.com/bC6AxXO.jpg

Anyway, I had better luck with Angelina Jolie. Hairwise, her hair looks also toned, but our dataset has way more colored women: https://i.imgur.com/WmTzRAZ.jpg

Spam bots have a new face

On the boring side, it’s probably not worth it. Generated photography is detectable. A trained eye could spot it; big social media have models trained to a lot it.

Scraping a real life dataset makes more sense to me. Moreover, there are tons of ready ones.

Instead, here are are some of the other uses invented by our customers https://generated.photos/use-cases

Founder here. Thanks for featuring!

There was an improvised AMA in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208704

I'd be glad to answer the questions here as well.

Haha I like how you put it!

On the boring side, it’s probably not worth it. Generated photography is detectable. A trained eye could spot it; big social media have models trained to a lot it.

Scraping a real life dataset makes more sense to me. Moreover, there are tons of ready ones.

Instead, here are are some of the other uses invented by our customers https://generated.photos/use-cases

Thank you for buying and thank you for your encouragement!

My personal fault was positioning. We can’t make everyone looking similar. As you said, we have a bunch of files on a disk, heavy indexed ones. We spend a year working on diversity, including running as photo studio, but it has limits yet.

So, we needed to invent a use for it. Anonymizing seemed like the opposite of resemblance, yet people wait for the latter. More resemblance (and prettier the face) more they like it.

I wonder if the current tech is marketable without false expectations.

I like the idea! That would be a cool next step after this mvp!

We could either pre-generate (see the first comment - it’s an accurate guess), or generate just in time.

The first is way easier - same architecture, more storage (we are moving from instance’s storage to S3 so it will be an easy step).

On-demand generation would be much more expensive as you have to have a GPU server ready, and queue requests. We have it with https://icons8.com/upscaler ; it’s a bit of work and expense.

Additionally, you have to make it a paid service. Any ideas who could pay for that? Our usual customers are https://generated.photos/use-cases

Hi, founder here.

You're right about the pre-generated images! 2.6M to be precise, all of them are here: https://generated.photos/faces

It definitely has some fitting issues; Brad Pitt is a good example as he dyes his hair. I've googled his hair situation so you don't have to. He most probably has gray hair, dyed dark, then highlighted.

That's a challenge huh! As a result, you can feel some of these guys manipulated hair color: https://i.imgur.com/bC6AxXO.jpg

Anyway, I had better luck with Angelina Jolie. Hairwise, her hair looks also toned, but our dataset has way more colored women: https://i.imgur.com/WmTzRAZ.jpg

Great fork, thank you!