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Re: MaskerAid iOS App

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Post by cjensen »

Grustaf wrote: post #62
scarface74 wrote: post #56

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Now let’s say you were already making over a quarter million a year doing one podcast for 3 hours a week. How much effort would you put into an app?

Zero, that's my point. It's a waste of time.

It's something to talk about on a podcast, so it is not a waste of time. Also, for many of us programmers, we really need programming in our lives otherwise we get that itch.

Your comments have been terribly absolutist about your own opinions. Please accept that other people have different priorities than you. Accept that other people have different comfort levels regarding their children's privacy than you. There's nothing wrong with your priorities, but there's also nothing wrong with people whose priorities are different.

Re: MaskerAid iOS App

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Post by perardi »

soylentcola wrote: post #89
eckza wrote: post #13

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Personally, I've been waiting for an app like this for a long time. I don't use social media, but I have a group chat with a handful of close friends. Sometimes, I like to insert emojis into a photo for comedic effect. Now I can do this without fighting with iOS's horrible Markup editor. (Quite frankly, I'm surprised that this isn't part of iOS already.)

Can you do it in the default photo editing app? Don't have any iOS devices handy to check out, but on my current phone, the standard Google Photos app has text markup - including emojis. Just tested it out and I was easily able to put an emoji over a face and resize/rotate it with pinch/drag type motions. Anything like that in the default Apple app? Granted, there is nothing like the automation features in OP's app,…

Frustratingly, no.

If you insert a photo into Messages and hit Markup, the first view gives you a bunch of pen/pencil/brush options, with fixed sizes per brush. There's a plus button that allows you to insert shapes and text…but you can't pinch-zoom to scale the text. You then have to tap around again to set the font size and color.

It's a weird, neglected-feeling interface. They could borrow a lot from Instagram's story editor.

Re: MaskerAid iOS App

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Post by nradov »

samhw wrote: post #28
eddieroger wrote: post #4

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Heard the same, thought the same. Casey succumbed to the struggle I find myself dealing with all the time - he found a problem with a technological solve and solved it with technology, which is only something other technologists do or want. Like you said, Instagram has a facility to already put stickers on images for people who wish to censor their pics. If they're not using Instagram, maybe the other program can do…

As one of our VCs once wisely said to us: "The hardest thing is to get a consumer to install a new app. Deliver your solution any way other than its own app."

That doesn't seem so wise. Consumers install a lot of apps. On the Google Play store, even some obscure apps have huge download numbers.

Re: MaskerAid iOS App

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Post by kemayo »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #54
brundolf wrote: post #53

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I know lots of pseudonymous people on Twitter who have large enough followings that they don't want to share their face or real name, and I've seen them do this sort of thing

I think the issue is that adding stickers to images is second nature to anyone who uses Instagram.

This is a little strange to hear, since it's genuinely not possible (as far as I can tell) in the main part of the app. Stories, yes, but not in the feed.

It's as if people use these things in wildly divergent ways, I guess.

Re: MaskerAid iOS App

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Post by jachee »

kennydude wrote: post #75

I love it. I'd love to also see something like this that can hide or change number plates of cars before posting online.

Why? I’ve never understood this practice. The number plate is already out in public nearly 24/7 anyway, what difference does it make if it’s unobscured in a photograph, unless it’s a stolen car or plate or something?

Re: MaskerAid iOS App

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Post by kemayo »

Grustaf wrote: post #49
scarface74 wrote: post #41

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It isn’t his full time job. He was doing it as a side project He’s on a 3 person podcast that could very well gross over $850K a year - 3 ad reads * 5500 * 52 weeks a year [1]. I wouldn’t make doing an app a high priority either. He’s also on other podcasts. [1] https://atp.fm/sponsor

Yeah I wouldn't spend a second thinking of that if I were on a high profile podcast like that. Much better to focus on growing that brand.

Mind you, given that Liss is on a bunch of Apple-focused podcasts, writing and publishing and marketing an iOS app really is giving him useful brand-related experiences. Being able to pull out recent personal anecdotes is very handy, even if he doesn't make any notable money directly from it.

Re: MaskerAid iOS App

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Post by kemayo »

gpmcadam wrote: post #88

FYI Markup, a feature of the Photos app in iOS can essentially do this fairly trivially. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT206885

True, but it's honestly pretty fiddly. If you want to do exactly-this, adding an emoji is a pain because you have to jump through a few hoops to resize it -- pinch-dragging doesn't work.

Re: MaskerAid iOS App

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Post by greedo »

ProAm wrote: post #32
Grustaf wrote: post #7

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I have kids, and don't mind posting their photos. But if I did, why post at all? It just seems weird. "Here's my son, minus the face. Oh he's so cute!"

To be fair their podcast has two programmers and a stay at home dad so it makes sense why he only had focus on his kids. The app isnt worth .99 cents though with questionable utility and a plethora of other apps that do this for free.

To be accurate, all three of the hosts are programmers.

Re: MaskerAid iOS App

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Post by ectopod »

micheljansen wrote: post #87
ziml77 wrote: post #80

I'm not sure why a bunch of commenters are dismissing the idea of hiding faces by placing emoji over them. That's already a thing. I see it a lot on photos that are shared online. It's a good alternatives to having to carefully frame or crop an image to hide objects and faces you don't want others to see.

As a parent of a preschooler I can confirm this is definitely a thing. We have decided to do what we can to avoid our child’s life being subject to data mining or the creation of shadow profiles by whatever company (past or present) thinks it can profit from it. We always cover his face with an emoji. So do most of the parents in our social circle.

To turn it round, do you spend time looking at other people's emoji-obscured photos?

I don't, so I can't see the point of posting them because I don't imagine that anyone would look at them. But I could well be wrong.

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