Show HN:What does your name look like?(namestofaces.com)
namestofaces.com
Show HN:What does your name look like?
http://namestofaces.com
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It's just a Bing image search, e.g. http://www.bing.com/images/search?pq=face%2520of%2520stanfor... There's a button on the side to toggle "face search".
Pretty naive implementation. This is no more than a wrapper around Bing image search. As far as I can tell, no further logic happens in the app.
Not quite sure how useful this is. However, if you can create a facial mash-up by first names... Now that can be interesting.
Not quite sure how useful this is. However, if you can create a facial mash-up by first names... Now that can be interesting.
Unless you have a relatively rare name with a very popular frontrunner, such as "Cary" or "Dizzy."
Should be marked NSFW, James returned several images with tits.
In the results for 'James', I find 'James King' to be less offensive than 'James Carpinello'.
How is this different than me typing my name on facebook and seeing what folks look like?
I'm sure I'm missing something..
I'm sure I'm missing something..
You should "turn off" a full-name when it already has a photo.
Avoiding getting 20 photos of the same person if the name is not really used.
It would give the "app" much more dimension.
Little style with the typed search, the results given etc... would be cool too.
I was hoping this would be a system that determines what kind of faces go with different kinds of names, like "Hm, he doesn't really look like a Steve."
I don't get it! Google image search does this!
I think it will take a few years before I can use my first name and not be associated with Mr. Schettino's image..
Nice implementation of an image search engine. I would love to be able to share faces and maybe star them.
The app is predisposed towards images of attractive people.
AKA celebs that you share a name with.
How does this work?
Go to bings image search, put in a name, on the left side select people then select 'head and shoulders'. You'll get the same results without the names quite so prominently placed.
If you inspect this page you'll notice all the images come from bing, this is wrapping their search results via the api.
If you inspect this page you'll notice all the images come from bing, this is wrapping their search results via the api.
Haha..good work Jeremy. It is in fact using Bing as sadly enough Google has retired their image search api: https://developers.google.com/image-search/
Bing image search API: http://www.bing.com/developers/s/APIBasics.html