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Software architect who builds side projects to stay sharp and challenge ideas.

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  • Kim
    KimYour assistant for everyday chaos – just send screenshots
    Jul 2025
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    Joined Product HuntMay 30th, 2025

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What becomes possible when live avatars are cheap?

Live avatars are usually shown as impressive demos.

But the more interesting question is what becomes possible when they are cheap and reusable enough to become part of real products.

That is the focus behind PhotoCall: one portrait photo becomes a reusable live avatar identity that can appear across different conversations, roles, scenes, and product flows.

The core strengths are:

Christian•

2d ago

Live AI avatars from one photo — optimized for reproducibility and low runtime cost

PhotoCall turns one portrait photo into a reusable speaking avatar for AI products, websites, onboarding flows, tutors, support, interview practice and product demos.

The important part is reproducibility: the same character can be reused across conversations, roles, scenes, and product workflows instead of generating a new random-looking avatar every time.

Different from real-time video generation, PhotoCall does most of the video work once during preprocessing and reuses avatar states during the conversation.

That creates a clear trade-off:

Christian•

11mo ago

Hi, I’m Christian – Usually strategic, now back to hands-on

Hi everyone!

I'm Christian, a systems architect professionally responsible for large-scale product platforms.

Lately, I ve been taking time to build things from scratch again finally getting back to hands-on work.

Right now, I m working on a personal AI assistant called Kim. She helps me stay organized by understanding photos, screenshots, voice notes and text and turns them into to-dos, events, reminders, even payment tasks.

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