Show HN: Selfie Ticket

You should sell an app that puts your worst photos next to the subject in their own photographs.

I cannot take a decent photo in most cases, but I had the opportunity to have a photo session with someone who normally works with models and celebrities and it made a huge difference. What I took away from the experience was that wearing makeup, standing in painful positions, and having someone yelling "hot!" "Ooh" "saucy!" and "yeah, like that, again!" makes for better photos, not just a fun Saturday night.

My first thought was this was an underhanded way to get more demographic data. I also don't like the potential privacy ramifications. What unintended places will those images end up? I don't use a public profile pic and I don't take selfies.

How this much different than the clubs that attempt to scan driver's licenses?

At least there is a fall back to a pure barcode.

I don't want to be this guy, but how come this can a good idea in post-snowden world?

Obviously you don't want your face associated with a political events or ideology events. But also and more surprisingly to tech events, specially crypto, physics and nuclear stuff. Some people get denied US tourist visa based only on that.

There are two types of people in the world. Those who hate QR codes, and those who don't know what they are.

This is cool in terms of self-expression and making the ticket more personal, and props for trying something new and building this in the first place, but does it actually solve a problem? I agree that the hassle / un-naturalness of scanning everyone in for smaller, more casual events is a problem, but I'm not sure if this solves that problem.

Unless an organizer makes this mandatory for all attendees, it's more than likely that only a minority of attendees will actually take a selfie of themselves for their ticket. And if say, 20% of attendees took a selfie and 80% did not, how does this solve the "scanning problem" for organizers?