Familiar lets you swap your face into any GIF with a single photo. Become the spicy memelord you've always wanted to be. Search for GIFs and upload from your photo library or take a selfie. You can also upgrade to remove ads and watermarks. Enjoy!
Hi Everyone!
I'm here to answer any questions you might have about Familiar. It's been a lot of fun to work on, and I hope you enjoy using it.
You can upload a photo or take a selfie, browse or search GIFs from GIPHY, and create to your heart's content. You can also upgrade to a paid version in order to remove ads and watermarks.
I want to add some quick notes on privacy:
- We don't collect or store any face data about you, ever. Everything is done on the fly.
- We don't share or sell any information about you with third parties.
- We make all your images and GIFs private and access them with self-destructing URLs.
- We actually delete photos and files when you say to delete them.
- We are US-based and don't have any weird government connections.
- We will donate 10% of any profit we ever make to the ACLU.
Thanks for checking us out!
@kieranmcgrady Hey Kieran, yeah I feel you. That's going to be a priority for me over the next couple weeks.
Edit: @kieranmcgrady happy to report that it's no longer necessary to use the app :) registering is only necessary to use across multiple devices or if you want backup in case you lose your phone, etc.
@kieranmcgrady Yeah I'm planning on decoupling accounts from email entirely actually and just allow people to register if they want to get access to all their GIFs from multiple devices / a slack plugin / etc. Thanks again for the note. :)
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@yawner is there a way to opt-in to data collection? If it would help you make the service better, I'm all for giving you my data.
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This is awesome, my main feedback would be that instead of pulling all of Giphy in, curate gifs that would work well with the app. A ton of gifs (usually ones where the face is not at a straight angle) just don't work. It would be a better UX for users to at least pick from gifs that have been more "battle tested" and usually turn out better. Maybe add another section to the left "trending" that has like a "staff picks" category or something. Other than that, love the idea, just takes some playing around with and lots of trial and error to get a good one. I bought a month of silver, though!
@bluetidepro Oh yeah that's a great idea, Zach. There's definitely a bit of a learning curve with how to get good results that I'd love to eliminate as much as possible. Thanks for the feedback!
Congrats on the launch––I like the upfront note on privacy, that's always good to see.
With that said, can you explain what "everything is done on the fly" means exactly?
Also just wanna mention that being US-based isn't the best selling point when it comes to privacy–US is way behind in terms of privacy protection/awareness unfortunately :( But I get the point––not another FaceApp or Gradient is what you're saying, right?
@hiramfromthechi Thanks for the note. Yup that's the idea regarding your last point. "Everything done on the fly" means that we don't store any facial map or vector data, like some other apps do. As a result, the swaps are a bit slower than they could be, but we think it's worth it for the extra level of privacy.
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