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Show HN: Facerank — A/B test your Tinder pics. What do you think?

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Re: Show HN: Facerank — A/B test your Tinder pics. What do you think?

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Post by ksaitor »

Hi HN

I’m building this app to A/B test your (and mine) 1st profile pic on Tinder.

I tried relying on Tinder’s “Smart Photos” feature before, but it does not give any insight into which picture is actually better, and there is no control over the sequence of pictures in my profile. So I thought it would be cool to have a super simple web app where people can actually vote for you.

The way it works is:

  1. You upload your 2 pictures
  2. Community votes
  3. You get the results which picture is better (and some feedback too)
As you know, 1st pic is like ~70% of your success and impact on your ELO score. The higher your score, the higher up your position in the queue is and the hotter profiles you’ll be shown too.

I’ve been working on it for the past 3-4 weeks and would really like some feedback on it:

  - What can be improved? 
  - Trying to come up with a funny tagline e.g. “Facerank yourself & your friends” but think this can be improved LOL.
Hope you guys can roast this idea as much as you can.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Facerank — A/B test your Tinder pics. What do you think?

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Post by mtmail »

There always was a market for such a service

"Hot or Not was preceded by the rating sites, like RateMyFace, which was registered a year earlier in the summer of 1999, and AmIHot.com, which was registered in January 2000 by MIT freshman Daniel Roy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_or_Not

"Hot or Not was sold for a rumored $20 million on February 8, 2008 to Avid Life Media"

Re: Show HN: Facerank — A/B test your Tinder pics. What do you think?

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Post by ksaitor »

mtmail wrote: post #3

There always was a market for such a service "Hot or Not was preceded by the rating sites, like RateMyFace, which was registered a year earlier in the summer of 1999, and AmIHot.com, which was registered in January 2000 by MIT freshman Daniel Roy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_or_Not "Hot or Not was sold for a rumored $20 million on February 8, 2008 to Avid Life Media"

True true! There is a bit of a difference tho.

"Hot or Not" was used to compare two different people.

My inspiration for Facerank was to help me optimise my Tinder profile, lift by ELO score and get more matches (maybe a wife, lol). So here, people supposed to upload their own pics :)

Re: Show HN: Facerank — A/B test your Tinder pics. What do you think?

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Post by charlieegan3 »

My feeling is that you need to let users choose the demographic rating their photos.

This clearly has a bit of a cold start issue though.

I'd really love for a service using ELO/relative ranking to exist and exactly for this purpose.

I've used https://www.photofeeler.com in the past - I think you're looking to give users a similar service. I have greater faith in your ELO method though.

Perhaps to give you some motivation, I've paid over $50 for that service to get a feel for different profile pictures. I'll continue to use it too as I consider new photos.

They have a slightly clickbaity blog, but it has some interesting posts like this one: https://blog.photofeeler.com/psychology-study-science-best-p...

Re: Show HN: Facerank — A/B test your Tinder pics. What do you think?

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Post by hopler »

mtmail wrote: post #3

There always was a market for such a service "Hot or Not was preceded by the rating sites, like RateMyFace, which was registered a year earlier in the summer of 1999, and AmIHot.com, which was registered in January 2000 by MIT freshman Daniel Roy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_or_Not "Hot or Not was sold for a rumored $20 million on February 8, 2008 to Avid Life Media"

Facebook was originally Facemash, a hotornot clone.

Re: Show HN: Facerank — A/B test your Tinder pics. What do you think?

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Post by sushid »

JofArnold wrote: post #8

My opinion of someone’s picture is valid, I suspect, only if they specifically want to date me or someone who thinks like me. Does that matter? If is does, is there a way to accommodate that?

Doesn’t the other way around matter more? You want to attract people who you want to date, not necessarily people who want to date you.
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