Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo

Companies person been progressively utilizing AI’s representation procreation chops to thatch radical photography skills. Google past twelvemonth released a diagnostic called Camera Coach connected Pixel phones to usher users astir framing and composition, and successful July, Adobe released a caller diagnostic successful its experimental camera app to usage AI to critique photos and suggest changes for capture.

On the aforesaid slant, 2 erstwhile TikTok employees, Melody Chu and Jing Liu, are launching a caller iOS app called Superpose that uses an AI usher to thatch radical however to airs for pictures.

Superpose fundamentally is simply a camera app. Users tin instrumentality a selfie oregon photograph of a friend, and the app volition make 4 imaginable poses utilizing AI. Some of the poses are extravagant, and astatine times, the procreation seems uncanny.

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Users tin prevention generated poses, oregon usage the lucifer airs diagnostic to effort to spot themselves successful the framework based connected its suggestions.

Prior to founding Superpose, Chu worked successful assorted merchandise roles successful companies similar Meta, Nextdoor, Roblox, TikTok, and Slack. Meanwhile, Liu was a founding technologist astatine a 3D face-scanning startup, and aboriginal worked connected representation and video models astatine TikTok.

Chu said that the thought for the app stemmed from a idiosyncratic problem: her hubby wasn’t capable to instrumentality bully photos of her.

“My hubby conscionable takes atrocious photos of me. It was a existent symptom constituent successful our matrimony wherever I don’t recognize however helium gets maine to look conscionable truthful unspeakable each the time. And I thought to myself, determination has to beryllium a mode to lick this occupation with advancements successful machine imaginativeness and generative AI. And I decided to acceptable retired connected my own,” Chu told TechCrunch.

Superpose was launched successful July, and has been downloaded implicit 22,000 times truthful far. The institution says its users person generated much than 190,000 poses. The app gives users 5 generations for escaped each day, but they tin bargain a battalion of 5 further generations for $2.99, oregon 20 generations for $9.99.

While Chu acknowledged that different companies are besides entering the AI-guided photography space, she said Superpose wants to absorption connected becoming the champion camera to instrumentality representation photos by pursuing directions from AI. The startup doesn’t privation to get into creating AI backgrounds and images, and wants to absorption connected real-life photographs, she added.

“We privation to thin into the halfway of representation seizure versus, say, putting you successful a fantastical spot that you’ve ne'er been. I deliberation determination are truthful galore apps that bash that good already, but we truly wanna absorption connected really capturing the lived infinitesimal and experience,” Chu said.

She besides acknowledged that immoderate of the airs suggestions mightiness look uncanny, and the institution is moving connected improving that. The startup says it is moving connected improving its procreation styles, personalization, and ways to amended manager users straight from the viewfinder.

Superpose has raised $2.2 cardinal successful backing from Khosla Ventures, Chinese smartphone and selfie app shaper Meitu, and OVTR Ventures.