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Show HN: I'm 17 and I created an iOS app to hide one photo within another

14 points by mike_eirinberg 10y ago

StijinM 10y ago
This is great! Others your age smoke and use drugs... Until they realize how quickly time passes, it will be too late.
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slackoverflower 10y ago
What does your age have to do with the app? Isn't that just irrelevant information?
- mike_eirinberg 10y ago
  Yes, irrelevant.
- jakobegger 10y ago
  I think it's relevant. I like browsing the Show HN section to see what kind of stuff people build, and I'm curious about the people building the stuff. I look at things differently when they are made by a high school student vs someone who has been working in the industry for a couple of years. For example, I wouldn't complain that there are lot of similar competing apps when it's clear that this is someone just trying to build their first app...
- danm07 10y ago
  Give the kid a break. He's making an app, let him show it to people - antics aside.
- Chos89 10y ago
  It is, but honestly most of HN is r/iamverysmart
  - jclos 10y ago
    With a flavor of /r/programmingcirclejerk
- acedinlowball 10y ago
  I would be careful about sharing opinions like this on HN. The Politically Correct crowd on HN will tell you to "stop being a hater"and that you need to demonstrate hopeless optimism and positivity or you can excuse yourself from all discussion. There is no room in modern discourse for criticism - not when peoples' feelings are at stake.
wingerlang 10y ago
> The app works by minutely altering the first photo to conceal the other. What does this mean? From the end-users perspective, I guess they still need the app to do this, at which point you could just send two images and no one would know anyway - and it'd save you some time.
- andars 10y ago
  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Digital_messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Digital_messages
  - mike_eirinberg 10y ago
    Yup, on point. This is a method of Steganography.
danm07 10y ago
Very Snapchat-esque. Lots of room for improvement for UI, and social.

StijinM 10y ago

This is great! Others your age smoke and use drugs... Until they realize how quickly time passes, it will be too late.

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slackoverflower 10y ago

What does your age have to do with the app? Isn't that just irrelevant information?

mike_eirinberg 10y ago
Yes, irrelevant.
jakobegger 10y ago
I think it's relevant. I like browsing the Show HN section to see what kind of stuff people build, and I'm curious about the people building the stuff. I look at things differently when they are made by a high school student vs someone who has been working in the industry for a couple of years. For example, I wouldn't complain that there are lot of similar competing apps when it's clear that this is someone just trying to build their first app...
danm07 10y ago
Give the kid a break. He's making an app, let him show it to people - antics aside.
Chos89 10y ago
It is, but honestly most of HN is r/iamverysmart
- jclos 10y ago
  With a flavor of /r/programmingcirclejerk
acedinlowball 10y ago
I would be careful about sharing opinions like this on HN. The Politically Correct crowd on HN will tell you to "stop being a hater"and that you need to demonstrate hopeless optimism and positivity or you can excuse yourself from all discussion. There is no room in modern discourse for criticism - not when peoples' feelings are at stake.

wingerlang 10y ago

> The app works by minutely altering the first photo to conceal the other. What does this mean? From the end-users perspective, I guess they still need the app to do this, at which point you could just send two images and no one would know anyway - and it'd save you some time.

andars 10y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Digital_messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Digital_messages
- mike_eirinberg 10y ago
  Yup, on point. This is a method of Steganography.

danm07 10y ago

Very Snapchat-esque. Lots of room for improvement for UI, and social.