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I was thinking today about an Instagram or Twitter like clone that only allowed pictures taken through the app to be posted. You could use a model like the one

I was thinking today about an Instagram or Twitter like clone that only allowed pictures taken through the app to be posted. You could use a model like the one TikTok released recently to do a depth map of the image and make sure it wasn't just a picture of a picture. How would you bootstrap such a thing? I imagine offering a fraternity or sorority a portion of the company to get their members posting and then ad blitzing their campus and hope to spread from there.

kevinventullo 3y ago
I believe BeReal is kind of like this, with an additional time constraint.
- notzane 3y ago
  Lapse as well. And Poparazzi before that. Hard to make money so they never seem to last long.
  - DANmode 3y ago
    Hard to make money without the network effect. Plenty of competitors can stand up a usable, competitive app.
earthling8118 3y ago
Please don't. We don't need more closed ecosystems and app-only technology. I don't believe that you'll be able to actually secure it so in the end we'll just have more software that doesn't respect the users and not be any better off for it
punkybr3wster 3y ago
Didn’t Casey Neistat do this already?
whywhywhywhy 3y ago
Doesn't the Tiktok model creates a fake depth map from what the picture would be so if you fed it into a picture of a picture you'd actually just get a depth map of the original picture not a flat plane. You'd need to verify through the actual device camera sensors.