Mirror Emoji Keyboard by Mirror AI is an app that takes a photo of your face and creates you a set of personalized emoji. You get hundreds of them ready to be shared on messengers or social networks.
Great job - smooth app and avatars/scenarios look great! I have a few questions:
1. Will you have different "styles" of illustration or stick to this "brand" style?
2. How often and by what logic will the avatar "scenarios" be updated?
3. What will be the means of discovering these new scenarios?
4. Are you planning anything in the augmented+animated space (like a personalised version of apples new animoji?)
@kirillcee hey Kirill, thanks! answering:
1. yes, this is quite hard technically but we do plan to have a large number of illustration types – from "simpsons character" to "comic book style" and other things.
2. right now we are adding scenarios every day – we want to get from the ~250 we have to ~10,000 that cover everything people want. also some of them are customized based on country and the like.
3. we are thinking about discovery by surfacing them in the sort order + doing text analysis based suggestions when typing in our keyboard. this is quite key.
4. probably not doing animated at the moment... they are much harder to scale and don't play well with messengers today
great questions, really hitting at key issues :)
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Pros:
Great idea and it's really fun!
Cons:
It was a little bit tricky to adjust my face to oval and in didn't recognize my beard :)
hey Alexey! yeah, beards are a challenge – existing neural nets aren't good at handling them so we are trying to get a lot more data around this.
and yes, we are considering a marketplace for artists to teach neural nets to draw in their style – just want to focus on the basics first :)
thanks for using the product!
Playing with it for 2 days now, seems like a noteworthy alternative for Bitmoji or Genies. Do you ever plan to add different clothes? There's only a black shirt but I don't even have one in my wardrobe, so the emoji doesn't really look like me haha
I saw an early sneak peek of this from @sergefaguet a couple weeks ago. Excited to get my hands on it today and spam my friends with these. Looking forward to seeing how the Mirror team expands and improves the product over time.
Cool project from great team!
Feature suggestion: use some NLU to analyze latest message that user sent with your keyboard (on device, obviously, for privacy reasons) and suggest the best emoji for user's emotion.
Hello Product Hunt!
After a year in the making we’re excited to launch Mirror.
We think custom emoji apps like Bitmoji are a good step towards bringing our real, unique faces into messaging. We take this further and let you:
- get hundreds of personal emoji/stickers in 3 seconds from a selfie.
- not spend mental energy wondering what your head shape/nose shape etc. are
- add your friends/family (soon your pets and more) to your emoji in seconds. manually constructing 10+ friends is just too hard.
- use all text-containing emoji in 8 languages (will expand to >25 shortly).
- get emoji that become more and more recognizable with time by learning from data.
We know there is still a long way to go to make the product great. Right now we are working on:
- improving the tech from just “personalized” to “recognizable by friends.” this it is a hard problem – we have a whole dedicated part of our brain for these tasks (fusiform gyrus).
- expanding our content library to ~10,000 emoji in 25 languages.
- adding new features – e.g. auto-detection of groups of people, pets, clothes, backgrounds.
Feel free to ask anything about our product, tech, team and story. We will do our best to fix any problems and make your emoji better quickly :)
The Mirror Team
The Mirror Emoji Keyboard (built by YC alum Mirror AI) is an app that uses AI to turn your selfies into personalized emoji. Add your friends and you'll be able to create joint emoji. Soon they'll be adding pets.
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Pros:Great idea and it's really fun!
Cons:It was a little bit tricky to adjust my face to oval and in didn't recognize my beard :)
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