PicSee - The Magical AI
Personal Photo Finder!
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The problem PicSee solves
What our beta users
loved about PicSee
Got tons of my photos from friends by giving them theirs. You get yours, they get theirs. PicSee is AI at its best!
No more begging. No manual sharing! I magically received my photos! PicSee got 1000s of my unseen photos within hours!
I was shocked to find so many of my unseen photos. And it’s so simple! This will be huge. All the best team PicSee!
PicSee gets you
your photos
automatically
within 24 hours
Once you use PicSee, you'll never share photos manually ever again. You won't need to. PicSee uses AI to do everything for you without you having to do anything!
What's unique
about PicSee's Solution?
​The biggest problem with photo sharing apps is the lack of incentive for the sender to share photos with anybody, because they get nothing in return for sharing.
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PicSee solves that by saying "If you want to receive you need to give". This simple two-way approval system gives both parties the incentives to share their respective photos with each other.
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PicSee has patented this flow and is the only mass product that solves the photo sharing problem using this unique yet effective method.​
PicSee has every privacy
feature you'd want!
PicSee gives senders all the control
PicSee maintains your privacy
PicSee is the safest photo app
PicSee sneak peek
Answers from PicSee
to probable questions
Q: What is PicSee?
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PicSee is the world's first personal photo finder app. What does that mean? PicSee can find your photos on any mobile device in the world and bring them to you! We use facial recognition (AI) to capture your face and find your photos on any other mobile device and help you get them. What PicSee does feels magical!
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Since it's your friends who will have most of your photos, all you need to do is to invite them to PicSee. They come to get their photos, but to receive their photos, they need to agree to give you yours. That's how photo sharing works on PicSee. It's a two-way approval where you approve each other as connections just one time, and then the app does the rest. It will show your friend your photos and after a 24 hour review period, you'll receive your photos and your friend will receive their photos from you.
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Unlike photo sharing, where everything is manual, everything on PicSee is automated. Once you approve each other as connections once, we will keep helping you and your friends to exchange photos seamlessly. No need for any manual actions. You get a 24 hour period to review outgoing photos and cancel any photos you don't want to share. You also get to send photos right away if you want.
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PicSee is the smartest way to get all your unseen photos from friends. We ensure you get your life's memories without depending on lazy friends who haven't yet shared your photos with you :)​​​
Q: But I already have Google Photos. How is PicSee different?​
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Google Photos is probably one of the best services out there to store your memories. Issue with most photo sharing apps is that they are one-way. A person shares someone’s photos proactively but gets nothing in return. Killing the incentive to share. We are all animals of incentives and if there are none, we stop performing such acts.
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PicSee aligns everyone’s incentives by saying “if you want to receive, you need to share”. This system ensures that everyone shares, because everyone wants to receive. On PicSee you get photos of yours you’ve never seen before. With photo sharing apps, users share photos they already have.
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PicSee is a photo finder that magically finds your unseen photos on the phones of your friends and gets them to you within 24 hours. It uses facial recognition and a two way approval system to help you get your photos from anyone in the world. It will automatically find your photos on any mobile device that has them and nudge your friend and you to approve each other this one time. Once both of you approve each other, you’ll will get your respective photos from each other with 24 hours. The 24 hour period is a period where you get to review outgoing photos. You can cancel the ones you don’t want to send and send out the ones you’re ok with. This way, everyone gets what they want.
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There’s no app that has this two-way approval (barter) system and that’s as effective in helping you get your unseen photos from any device in the world that has your photos. In the future we will enable our users to sync their PicSee photos on their Google Photos. What we do is synergistic to what Google Photos is trying to achieve with their superlative storage capabilities.
Q: I’ve seen other apps too that use facial recognition. What’s the big deal?​
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Facial recognition, while non-trivial, is table stakes.
Big tech has made this technology available to billions of users in photo sharing apps. While we've created our own facial recognition model, we don’t pride ourselves and our solution because of facial recognition and its magic.
We pride ourselves in our insight and our innovative flow that solves for the incentives it provides to two parties to enable a photo exchange. This is the first time in the world that someone has created such a simple and elegant flow to ensure that both consenting parties will get their respective photos from each other’s phones without any manual intervention.
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There are about 18 trillion photos in the world. Majority have been taken using a mobile phone and many of them are waiting to be shared. Imagine PicSee becoming the default way for photos of the past to exchange hands and to be the default to enable all future exchanges too. Users will have zero reason to send photos manually when all they need to do is to download PicSee and let it handle all its exchanges auto-magically. That’s the big deal about PicSee. It changes our future for the better!
Q: I’ve seen some event and weddings apps that do something similar. What’s the big deal?​
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Yes, there are apps that do something similar using facial recognition, but they work on a small scale. They don’t work at scale. They are not capable of finding your photos on ‘any’ device in the world.
They are good at a 100–1000 kind of group size. And they are largely made for that specific event.​ The app has no use beyond the event. PicSee is useful throughout the year for EVERY photo of yours that got clicked, ANYWHERE in the world.
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What PicSee does can be scaled to the world for ANY device in the world. It can house billions of users and will accomplish the same thing without any hiccups. Once PicSee is out there, none of these apps will be required. PicSee will accomplish this and more without costing you anything. It will have tons of other rich features that none of these apps have.
Q: How is PicSee different from automated shared albums that Google Photos has?
Google Photos' automated shared albums are also one way.
Just because you shared an automated album with someone doesn’t mean that they’ll share it with you in return. Again, breaking your incentive to do this with anybody.
On PicSee what makes the exchange effective is that if you want to receive, you need to agree to share. It’s like WhatsApp’s last seen. If you want to see, you need to show. If users would be able to see without having to show, nobody would keep their last seen on, resulting in everyone switching it off. That’s what happens on photo sharing apps. Very few share proactively.
The biggest difference between photo sharing apps and PicSee is the two way approval system that enables a “share if you want to receive” flow.
Q: What about privacy on PicSee? Is it safe to use?
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Absolutely.
We’ve built this for ourselves and added every safety feature we would have liked before we could use it peacefully. In the section above where we talk about privacy and control, we’ve added details about all the features we provide. T
he most important thing is the fact that your photos stay on your phone. We don’t sync them to our servers. They remain on your phone while we run our facial recognition model on the phone itself, to find your and your friends’ photos. Photo sharing apps like Google Photos sync all your photos to their server. We don’t.
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We respect your privacy and want to give you the comfort about the fact that even PicSee can’t see your photos. Not only do your photos stay on your phone, but also are encrypted when being exchanged. PicSee doesn’t store anything permanently. As soon as your photos are sent to a friend, they are removed from our server. Usually all of this happens within seconds. Which means PicSee has your photo just for those few seconds, that too in an encrypted form. Just the way WhatsApp works.
We also only enable exchanges between people you approve and only send photos post your review. We don’t allow screenshots on the app either. If there are sensitive / nudes identified by our models, we don’t touch those photos. You can rest assured that your privacy is in very safe hands. Like we said, we’ve built this product for ourselves and our families. Everything that could be done has been done to ensure you feel secure using this lovely product.
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Here are some of the things we do to ensure your privacy and safety:
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Your photos stay on your phone. PicSee doesn’t fetch or store your photos on its servers the way other apps do.
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Your photos stay encrypted during the exchange. That means even a PicSee team member can’t view your photos.
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You choose who you exchange photos with through PicSee. You also choose which photos you share with someone.
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We don’t allow screenshots on PicSee.
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Photos you’ve shared with someone can be recalled at any point on PicSee, and it will stop showing on your friend’s app.
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Photos can’t be downloaded till 24 hours of you sending them to someone on PicSee.
We too are users of this product and have designed it in a way that all of us feel safe using PicSee.
Q: What if the app makes an error in identifying my face?
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Facial recognition isn’t an exact science. Even government agencies make errors! However, it’s fairly accurate and will solve for the use cases 99%+ of the times. There will always be some errors but in our case we have various fail safes to contain them. Be it you marking an erroneous exchange or us identifying errors over a period of time and re-training our models to fix such errors. As face recognition models move towards precision, so will we.
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We believe that there are risks in almost everything we do. But if something helps 99% of the people and 99% of the times, it deserves to be around. While we work towards constant improvement. That will be our endeavour with facial recognition too. Once you use the product, you’ll be glad you used it.
You’ll always find solutions that move humanity a step forward in a way that it becomes a part of the future. When we moved from â…“ of a phone screen having glass (Nokia) to a full glass screen (Apple), we did encounter issues like water proofing etc, but the world moved towards quickly finding ways to make the solution more stress free but never went back to the older solutions because of the superiority of the new way.
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Hopefully what PicSee has created will become the default behaviour in the future for humanity to exchange memories and will be a solution that’s here to stay!
Q: When will the PicSee app be available?
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The team is furiously working towards a beta launch for PicSee. You should have this soon. Sign-up for the PicSee beta (a few sections above) so we can keep you in the loop. We will make PicSee available on Android as well as iOS.​
Q: Are you sure I’ll receive my photos if I use PicSee?​
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100%. All you have to do is install it, invite your friends who you think have many of your photos. We send them an invite showing them how many photos they’ll receive from you. That gets them to install PicSee and be willing to send you your photos in return. This incentive enables both of you to get what you want. Within hours you’ll start receiving your photos from the ones you decide to exchange with.
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