I think reddit would go crazy for this sort of stuff. In fact, have it load images from imgur.
Also, nice work.
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#22I agree, this isn't useless. I know my mom used to buy stick-on thought bubbles to put on pictures of her kids in baby books and such. If she wanted to do that now she's have to insert a photo into PowerPoint and add a thought bubble. I would use Photoshop which arguably would take even more time.
My suggestion for improvement: have it auto-upload to imgur or another image sharing site (maybe add a checkbox for that when people are reviewing the TOS).
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#23I think this could actually have utility in a business setting: many folks doing presentations, newsletters, etc... don't have image software (or the know-how) to create this kind of effect.
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#24This is pretty awesome. A friend of mine wanted me to look into doing something exactly like this. And this is definitely not useless. Great job!
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#25facebook would love this
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#27It's sad that people call their little/fun projects useless. I just used your project and thought it was awesome. And even the worst project ever is useful for you . It's how you learn, build and explore. Plus, some truly great things have started out as "useless."
Awesome and useful are orthogonal. I found it awesome too, but I have no use for it.
I wouldn't say that they are necessarily orthogonal, in fact, I would say that most of the time they align pretty well.
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#28Thank you. I think this is useful project for me.
The other day, I also thought about making a algorithm to create a speech bubble around a piece of text. You have a pretty good implementation.
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#29Simple and nice. I would suggest adding a third option to take a photo from webcam.
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#30I hope "weekend project" is just a thing people say these days and this really took longer than a weekend, or I wish I could create something this awesome in a few days :/