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...

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"

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!

What's in it for the people doing the rating?

Follow up question : Given the target audience (dudes mostly), why should they help you rather than purposely misguide you into choosing the worst ones in order to undercut competition? A bit twisted I know but hey, if I thought of it, I'm probably not the only one ;)

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?

Okcupid used to have a feature called my best face that did this, looks like they removed it though.

How about generating better ones using deep fake tech?

   - upload a few profile pics
   - GAN generates an optimized pretty profile pic for you,
     that you can used on Tinder and other social media