Thanks @sama for hunting us!
The Snappr Photo Analyzer AI will inspect your professional mugshot (e.g. LinkedIn profile pic) and tell you if it is good/bad and what you can do to improve it! It focuses on scientific research around perceptions of professionalism. This began as a little fun side project for the Snappr team, but after our friends found the prototype super-useful, we kept going!
A question for the community: what type of photo analyzer should we build next? (Spoiler alert: we already have a dating photo one in the works!) And any evidence-based suggestions for attributes to add to this LinkedIn version are much appreciated.
Hope you find it useful :)
@berealexandre Sounds cool, PM me on twitter and let's chat :)
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@mdschiller we also have a use for it will DM you !
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@mdschiller the level of insight given is amazing. Great tool!!!
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@berealexandre@mdschiller@sama I was just going to say this needs to happen for ALL dating profiles ASAP. Happy to help consult on that since I have used them all, everywhere to great success. lol.
@rrhoover Definitively agree with you Ryan, I have not changed my Twitter avatar since day 1 (2006), and it's not even me on it :P
I have a score of 67/100 on my Linkedin photo, could be worst too.
Curious to see how are scoring the "pro-CV-mugshot" people/companies are sometimes offering.
@rrhoover Also fully agree. I've used the same profile picture for Twitter, LinkedIn, and About.me since I first created these accounts. Not sure if it's as important for LinkedIn, but I figure consistency doesn't hurt.
@rrhoover Don't worry, you'll get a score bump when we add the 'retro charm' attribute into the formula ;)
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@rrhoover I've had my avatar as-is for 8 or 9 years, and I'll likely never change it for exactly the same reason. It's meant to be iconic, not photographic.
@philippehong Thanks mate, very kind :) No launch date yet for a dating photo analyzer, but hopefully in around 2 months. If you need urgent help with your Tinder game, we'd be happy to give you early access to a testing version ;)
This is a great tool! Fun, easy, simple, informative. I thought my linkedin picture was pretty good, but it looks like I have room for improvement with a score of 71. For each scoring criteria, it would be cool if you included an example of a photo with a "perfect" score in that category for visual comparison.
@bradleyengel Hi Brad, that's a great idea! Especially when some attributes (e.g. squint) aren't necessarily self-explanatory. Going straight to the feature list... Thanks for commenting :)
81/100 #winning
This is really detailed. Marks photos based on things I've never even heard / thought of. eg. "squinching" which apparently I am an ace at.
@shimmb Nice job! Just ran the numbers, and based on the people who've used the analyzer so far, that puts you in the top ~98% of scores. Thanks for leaving the comment :)
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@mdschiller Finally I succeeded at something. Although I didn't take the picture...
I'd love to see some examples of 100/100 (or near to it).
Are we put on your mailing list automatically if we use this?
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@theleovogel If it is free, you are the product. I'll give them credit, their privacy policy is very up front about their intentions.
- We may disclose personal information to: third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services (including but not limited to booking services) or direct marketing to you. This may include parties located, or that store data, outside of Australia including in the United States of America
- We collect and use the information for purposes including: for marketing including direct marketing; to run competitions or offer additional benefits to you; to send you promotional information about third parties that we think may be of interest to you; and for data analytics purposes.
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I wonder how this can enforce some biases and/or if the algorithm takes in consideration the one perceiving it, because this perceptions change from culture to culture, race, localization, even language.
Can you share the research on professionalism? And how/if your algorithm takes internationalization into account?
@koolkoder We've been thinking about a Facebook/social version - a lot tougher because the diversity of photographic styles is much greater than with professional headshots. The selfie analyzer idea is a cool one - I could imagine it working in realtime as a mobile app! Thanks for the comment :)
Technically yes, but for the moment as the analyzer is free we are collecting some details. If you DM us, more than happy to put your photo through manually!
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