Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds

Post by Applejinx » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

nrmitchi wrote: post #13

logane wrote: post #2

Hi HN, author here! As students facing online instruction, we built ZoomerBackgrounds to solve firsthand the everyday problems of having subpar backgrounds and spoke with several friends working in industry about their background needs. The result is a product we really think you're really going to love. We had a lot of fun making this over the weekend and hope you all enjoy :) For the tech stack we used react on the…

I see that you have an option to not include a watermark on downloaded images, but having watermarks turned on by default (especially since these look like user uploaded images which I'm assuming you don't actually own) is quite off-putting.

Post by logane » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 4:28 PM UTC

nrmitchi wrote: post #13

logane wrote: post #2

Hi HN, author here! As students facing online instruction, we built ZoomerBackgrounds to solve firsthand the everyday problems of having subpar backgrounds and spoke with several friends working in industry about their background needs. The result is a product we really think you're really going to love. We had a lot of fun making this over the weekend and hope you all enjoy :) For the tech stack we used react on the…

I see that you have an option to not include a watermark on downloaded images, but having watermarks turned on by default (especially since these look like user uploaded images which I'm assuming you don't actually own) is quite off-putting.

Post by jameslk » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 4:38 PM UTC

Post by t-writescode » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 4:48 PM UTC

Techies4Trump wrote: post #26

jameslk wrote: post #25

I'm afraid this will be quickly overrun by trolls. Hopefully you are prepared to moderate.

Why? Because of Biden background?

Post by alpb » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC