If you're looking for critiques or improvements stating "Indistinguishable from real photos" seems a stretch as good as they are. Even if I were to use ai photos, I'd never try to pass them off as real. Seems dishonest. I'd push more towards a new thing, not sell as replacement for proper headshots. In that way, I'd think stylized things would do better, ie make it a piece of art. But also I'm def not target customer and you already seem to be doing quite well. Good on you for building so much.
More than a few of us didn't want our images on the Internet, so this was a good compromise.
But even if I ignore them most of them, there is something off. Maybe I am biased because I know it's AI-generated, but I also feel they look too polished for the real world. The facial skin isn't generally this perfect. And the bokeh looks like it has been artificially added.
I won't say I can point out 100% of the time when a photo has been AI generated. But if I saw a series of them generated with the same software, I don't think it will be too hard.
It might also damage the sense of identity they provide, if the generated images wander too far from reality of the source images.
> minus the largest English speaking economies
Just uploaded the first photo I could find that fit the size requirements.
Got a rejection email and took a look at other profiles, only to realize they were all using 'professional' looking headshots (which I'm sure reflects better on Toptal)
I have 9 YoE in software and an in-demand skillset, so I think it was the headshot. It's possible they really just have an influx of people now with all the layoffs, but I was signing up because of a recruiting email I had received from them days earlier saying my skills were in demand and they were trying to grow their network
Really? This does not match my experience (Europe) Quite the contrary actually.
:shrug:
I dunno, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth somehow. Like we’re replacing the things that should be uniquely human with something fake.
Or shell out 30 bucks pro-mensch to get a consistent headshot of all employees using whatever Tinder/Grindr/insta photos they have laying around.
I don't own a large company but I know which option I'd pick if I needed to do this.
I’m not saying the product will be the next Facebook, but boy does it solve a very niche and annoying problem.
Having it done with the whole team on premises is a lot of fun.
Can I make a suggestion? A similar service is needed for dating purposes. Most people on dating websites have awful photos, the kind you take in front of the bathroom mirror. You'd probably need to offer three pictures: one a headshot, another full-body, and a third in a social setting (party, sports, whatever).
Offering this service, you might even be able to partner up with major dating sites.
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Gotta keep building, Danny. Go! Go! Go!
In one place:
> All photoshoots include
> 120 headshots per person
> 3 unique locations per shoot
> 4K photo size
Then the individual shoots have different counts included per tier, some less than indicated for “all photoshoots” on the same page.
I messaged you under a twitter thread, using the livechat on your website and via the email on the invoice. No response.
My email starts with "Tomasz", is similar to my HN handle and is @gmail.com. Please respond.
Would be great to see examples of the pictures people sent in and the results. The examples on the page are clearly rented pictures of photo models taken by professionally photographers.
I'm soured on the whole 'support local' thing (not only because of this episode). Too many chumps.
It's like when people show their nonexistent body/beautiful life on Instragram, just fake.
2. Train Stable Diffusion 2.0 to learn this new embedding, this is a bit of an art rather than a science.
3. Find a nice looking prompt with your new embedding that gives you the desired result.
4. Try ControlNet, LoRa, different base models, etc, always questioning your outputs - there's something subtlety off about them...
5. Continue to fine tune your prompt, input, masking and editing
???
N. Realise that it would have been easier to just get a photograper.
https://colab.research.google.com/github/TheLastBen/fast-sta...
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