Avatars.io
Infrastructure
avatar api service
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
6 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Idea: 5 for, 7 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, consistent URLs and seamless integration
From 2 comments
what a great looking site (this and Chute too). but... maybe you could explain the value a little better to me? the avatar URLs for facebook and twitter are:…
choxi on HNThe app makes avatar integration so seamless. Wonderful job guys. Love it. I've always been using Gravatar which is great too. But having access to all the avatars from various…
arrowgunz on HN
Access to social network avatars beyond Gravatar
From 1 comment
The app makes avatar integration so seamless. Wonderful job guys. Love it. I've always been using Gravatar which is great too. But having access to all the avatars from various…
arrowgunz on HN
Objections
Adds a dependency and risk on a third-party service without clear added value over direct URLs
From 3 comments
Why would I want to move from using Gravatar... to using Gravatar through Avatars.io. If I have to manually support all of these URLs, there's not a ton of benefit from just…
drivebyacct2 on HNwhat a great looking site (this and Chute too). but... maybe you could explain the value a little better to me? the avatar URLs for facebook and twitter are:…
choxi on HNI guess I am still confused. I don't mean to belittle what you're doing, I just don't understand the value it adds for me. I suppose maybe your gems or prebuilt packages make it…
drivebyacct2 on HN
Hosted services should be libraries run on own servers
From 1 comment
Shouldn't this be a library that we can run on our own servers? I simply don't understand the recent influx of things that should be libraries. I think building our…
amix on HN
Still requires OAuth work on the client side
From 1 comment
An example of how I still have to do the work is Facebook. In your example, you need the Facebook ID to get the avatar. You can do that already using a simple URL from Facebook,…
timjahn on HN
Requests
Fallback lookup across services by email
From 2 comments
Agreed. What WOULD be helpful is a service that would look for an avatar on various services, and serve the first one it finds. So if a user doesn't have a gravatar, it looks up…
vailripper on HNThis would be great - and if it finds a few, give the user the option to select one of the ones it finds on the various social services.
jjb123 on HN
PHP library
From 1 comment
Are you guys working on a PHP library, or will I need to roll my own?
ChiperSoft on HN
More providers such as Unicornify
From 1 comment
You should add support for more providers, like Unicornify: http://unicornify.appspot.com/
jimsmi6 on HN
On-the-fly cropping and face centering
From 2 comments
what a great looking site (this and Chute too). but... maybe you could explain the value a little better to me? the avatar URLs for facebook and twitter are:…
choxi on HNGreat work. Very useful service. Now only if there was an easy(ier) way to crop, enhance, tag, etc across platforms.
wmcreate on HN
Questions
What value does it add over direct Gravatar or social URLs?
From 2 comments
Why would I want to move from using Gravatar... to using Gravatar through Avatars.io. If I have to manually support all of these URLs, there's not a ton of benefit from just…
drivebyacct2 on HNwhat a great looking site (this and Chute too). but... maybe you could explain the value a little better to me? the avatar URLs for facebook and twitter are:…
choxi on HN
Is there a PHP library?
From 1 comment
Are you guys working on a PHP library, or will I need to roll my own?
ChiperSoft on HN
Alternatives named
Gravatar
From 2 comments
Why would I want to move from using Gravatar... to using Gravatar through Avatars.io. If I have to manually support all of these URLs, there's not a ton of benefit from just…
drivebyacct2 on HNThe app makes avatar integration so seamless. Wonderful job guys. Love it. I've always been using Gravatar which is great too. But having access to all the avatars from various…
arrowgunz on HN
Direct Facebook and Twitter avatar URLs
From 1 comment
what a great looking site (this and Chute too). but... maybe you could explain the value a little better to me? the avatar URLs for facebook and twitter are:…
choxi on HN
Unicornify
From 1 comment
You should add support for more providers, like Unicornify: http://unicornify.appspot.com/
jimsmi6 on HN