Placr

Dope backgrounds for your video selfies

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Dope backgrounds for your video selfies

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Placr is a mobile app that uses neural networks to change a background of your video selfies in real-time.

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Placr

Maker

@chrismessina, thanks for hunting us! Hello Product Hunters! Placr CEO here 👋. We are super excited to show you what we've been working on. In Spring, 2016 we came out with an idea of Placr, a fun mobile app that would let users to change backgrounds of their video selfies in real-time. We wanted to let people place themselves wherever they want. As it often happens, it was just an idea and nothing more. 2 years later, we decided to finally give it a go. We challenged ourselves to ship it within a month. And after 4 weeks of hard work our MVP is here :). Our team is happy that we managed to coincide the Placr launch with the beginning of the 21st FIFA World Cup that is taking place in Russia this year. Being HUGE soccer fans ourselves, we added a whole bunch of backgrounds for every country that participates in this tournament. Hope you guys like it! It's just a beginning of our journey at Placr. We will continue improving the app, making it more accurate, adding new features and creating awesome backgrounds. We'd love for you to try it out and let us know what you think. Feel free to send us any questions you may have about the product, the team, the idea - or anything, really! Any feedback is much appreciated!

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8yr ago

Hustle Crew Academy

@chrismessina @afanasiy I like that you've included World Cup backgrounds - perfect timing ⚽️

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8yr ago

Placr

Maker

@abadesi thank you! What team do you support? ˆˆ

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8yr ago

Hustle Crew Academy

@afanasiy I can't decide was supporting 🇳🇬 ofc but maybe 🇩🇪 too? Hbu?

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8yr ago

Placr

Maker

@abadesi as a true Siberian I support my motherland Russia :).

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8yr ago

Placr

Maker

@afanasiy thank you!!

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8yr ago

Nice job 👍keep updated )

Pros:

cool backgrounds! A perfect timing with WC2018 :)

Cons:

would love to see more backgrounds

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8yr ago

Placr

Maker

Thank you for your feedback! We'll definitely make new backgrounds :)

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8yr ago

Placr

Maker

Thank you for supporting us! Let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

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8yr ago

Wow! Something new. 😃 For a long time I dreamed of such an app, because sometimes it's shameful to show the background to followers🤦🏽‍♂️

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8yr ago

Placr

Maker

@chaikafletcher thank you for your words! Indeed, it is one of the problems that we are solving :).

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8yr ago

@afanasiy Thanks guys! good luck in you😉

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8yr ago

I uesd it to place video on social media, hot i support my team!

Pros:

Great application!

Cons:

Especcially to fans on world cup!

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8yr ago

Placr

Maker

Thank you for the review! Enjoy the World Cup :)

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8yr ago

nice themes, easy to navigate and use, well done! enjoying my new app :)

Pros:

Simple interface, lots of fun, easy to use

Cons:

none

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8yr ago

Placr

Maker

Thank you so much for your support. I truly appreciate it. Please let me know how I can be of help to you.

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8yr ago

Perfect timing with World Cup! Can't wait to try it on Android, any plan for it?

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8yr ago

Placr

Maker

@chiew_soon_aik thank you for sharing your opinion with us! We plan to release Android in a few months.

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8yr ago

@afanasiy nice.. do you mind to share more about the technology behind? Also, how do you see Placr against giants in this space like Snap, Instagram..

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8yr ago

Placr

Maker

@chiew_soon_aik Thanks for your question! We use convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation. The task required a dataset with high quality annotations. All public datasets that we found had low quality of human segmentation, and we had to create our own dataset and a tool to make annotations fast and accurate. Since our time and resources were limited we had to work a lot with the training procedure. We programmaticaly improved the dataset and created our own autoaugmentation tool. We don't really put ourselves against them :). Our videos can be easily integrated to these giant platforms😅.

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8yr ago