Only for Linkedin?
Would be keen to try this out for other platforms but being in the tech world, I can't say that Linkedin is that much of a priority for me personally.
When can we expect to see this for other sites?
@bentossell Thanks for the question! On the results page, you can upload alternative photos (not just from LinkedIn), but it will still judge them for their likely impact in a professional context. We have started work on a dating photo version too!
@mdschiller@bentossell Why not to add FB and Twitter even in professional context? This is not very complicated to do. Linkedin is banned in some countries, just saying...
@vladzima Thanks for the suggestion, appreciate it! Wasn't aware of this ban. The reason we focused on LinkedIn was that the AI was trained on the type of professional photos that tend to be used there, not on more 'social' photos. That might be something we look at for a future release! But the good news is you can upload ANY photo for analysis from the results page, as long as you have a LinkedIn account to get you there :)
@mdschiller@vladzima Trhing to upload a "custom" photo gives me a very strange error? "Sorry, LinkedIn's systems are experiencing an error and we can't pull your photo. Try again later." Since I've used a picture from my pc, how is this possible?
Thanks @sama for hunting us!
The Snappr Photo Analyzer AI will inspect your professional mugshot (e.g. LinkedIn profile pic) and tell you if it is good/bad and what you can do to improve it! It focuses on scientific research around perceptions of professionalism. This began as a little fun side project for the Snappr team, but after our friends found the prototype super-useful, we kept going!
A question for the community: what type of photo analyzer should we build next? (Spoiler alert: we already have a dating photo one in the works!) And any evidence-based suggestions for attributes to add to this LinkedIn version are much appreciated.
Hope you find it useful :)
@berealexandre@mdschiller@sama I was just going to say this needs to happen for ALL dating profiles ASAP. Happy to help consult on that since I have used them all, everywhere to great success. lol.
@rrhoover Definitively agree with you Ryan, I have not changed my Twitter avatar since day 1 (2006), and it's not even me on it :P
I have a score of 67/100 on my Linkedin photo, could be worst too.
Curious to see how are scoring the "pro-CV-mugshot" people/companies are sometimes offering.
@rrhoover Also fully agree. I've used the same profile picture for Twitter, LinkedIn, and About.me since I first created these accounts. Not sure if it's as important for LinkedIn, but I figure consistency doesn't hurt.
@rrhoover I've had my avatar as-is for 8 or 9 years, and I'll likely never change it for exactly the same reason. It's meant to be iconic, not photographic.
Better than mine, I got:
"There was an error with your image. In fact, it appears to be an album cover. Please try another image. Or maybe you don't have an image - why not book a Snappr?"
Guess I should put out an album.
@philippehong Thanks mate, very kind :) No launch date yet for a dating photo analyzer, but hopefully in around 2 months. If you need urgent help with your Tinder game, we'd be happy to give you early access to a testing version ;)
This is a great tool! Fun, easy, simple, informative. I thought my linkedin picture was pretty good, but it looks like I have room for improvement with a score of 71. For each scoring criteria, it would be cool if you included an example of a photo with a "perfect" score in that category for visual comparison.
@bradleyengel Hi Brad, that's a great idea! Especially when some attributes (e.g. squint) aren't necessarily self-explanatory. Going straight to the feature list... Thanks for commenting :)
81/100 #winning
This is really detailed. Marks photos based on things I've never even heard / thought of. eg. "squinching" which apparently I am an ace at.
@shimmb Nice job! Just ran the numbers, and based on the people who've used the analyzer so far, that puts you in the top ~98% of scores. Thanks for leaving the comment :)
@theleovogel If it is free, you are the product. I'll give them credit, their privacy policy is very up front about their intentions.
- We may disclose personal information to: third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services (including but not limited to booking services) or direct marketing to you. This may include parties located, or that store data, outside of Australia including in the United States of America
- We collect and use the information for purposes including: for marketing including direct marketing; to run competitions or offer additional benefits to you; to send you promotional information about third parties that we think may be of interest to you; and for data analytics purposes.
I wonder how this can enforce some biases and/or if the algorithm takes in consideration the one perceiving it, because this perceptions change from culture to culture, race, localization, even language.
Can you share the research on professionalism? And how/if your algorithm takes internationalization into account?
@koolkoder We've been thinking about a Facebook/social version - a lot tougher because the diversity of photographic styles is much greater than with professional headshots. The selfie analyzer idea is a cool one - I could imagine it working in realtime as a mobile app! Thanks for the comment :)
Technically yes, but for the moment as the analyzer is free we are collecting some details. If you DM us, more than happy to put your photo through manually!
@momciloo Ahh you got me! Got to slowly make my way to the 100/100 version over time so as not to stun my friends with my sheer professionalism ;) Thanks for the kind comments :D
Totally impressed by the speed and accuracy in recognizing all face features. More so on the profoundly detailed feedback and improvement suggestions. Way to go team!
@edricsub Thanks Edric, very kind! There were two cool free tools (both non-photographic) that gave us a bit of inspiration at the outset: TestMySite by thinkWithGoogle, and WordStream's free AdWords performance report: https://testmysite.thinkwithgoog...http://www.wordstream.com/ Would be grateful if you could share the analyzer with everyone at Vopo and Twitter :)
Matt and Ed presented Snappr at a Product Hunt Sydney event. Back then, they demoed the main photographer-customers march making mechanism of the app. Utilising a photo analysing AI tool to tell you how effective your headshot is, takes off a lot guess work, which is great.
I wonder what principles the analyser uses to draw its conclusions (just in general terms)?
All in all, great product and value add, and hopefully you can demo it at a future phsyd event.
@elbahnasy Thanks Iz! As far as general principles, the focus was on things that drive perceptions of professionalism. The analyzer steers clear of things that we don't have the ability to change.
Slick interface. I like how the categories are broken down with 3 simple criteria - fewer or more would be less convincing.
Though this is clearly not the purpose of the app, I would be wary about what perceptions are used as truth in the model. In the wrong hands (for instance a tool like this on the hiring side instead of the individual side) could carry out existing biases.
@ggnall Hi Graham, thanks for the kind comment + thoughtful insight. I guess the analyzer is helping to bring some of our unconscious biases to the surface, which I think is always a good thing!
With so much vanity in the world this is a super smart, low friction way to connect social networks together.. great idea guys! I can imagine the first brainstorm session.. "how do we make Face Mash 2.0?" haha
@arlogilbert Hey Arlo - you make an interesting point. The way we look at it is that Linkedin is just a virtual way for us all to engage and communicate with each other. Some photos are better than others in how they help build a human relationship via the digital platform, and that's what we are trying to help out with!
@emccoy Hey Evan, thanks for the feedback! The issue with your pic is that the analyzer was not able to detect your face in the image (we found your linkedin pic and ran it through to debug). Try cropping closer onto your face for a result, or try a different image.
@tarungangwani That's awesome!! Sometimes the fixes are so easy (but not necessarily intuitive) which is good. Always good to avoid a reshoot if possible! Thanks from the Snappr crew for the comment :)
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