Twynsa
Scan your face, meet the people who look like you.
- Angles in a face scan
- 5
- First commit to the web MVP
- 5 months
- Apps and services in the product
- 6
- People building it
- 1
About the project
Twynsa is a social app built around one question. Who out there looks like you? You scan your face from five angles when you join, and the app shows you the accounts whose faces come closest, with a percentage on each match. From there you can follow, chat, call, post, join communities, enter lookalike challenges and spend coins on things like a username from the marketplace. I build all of it myself. The web app is done as an MVP and the phone app is next.
What Twynsa is
Twynsa is a social app built around one question. Who out there looks like you?
You scan your face when you join, and the app shows you the accounts whose faces come closest to yours. Each match tells you how alike the two of you are as a percentage, and you set the minimum you want to see. From there you can follow someone, message them or call them.
The rest of the app is built around those matches. There are posts, group chats, communities, lookalike challenges, coins to spend and a marketplace where people buy and sell usernames.
The face scan
The scan is the first thing you do after signing up. One selfie isn't much to go on, because light, angle and expression change a photo more than the face does. So Twynsa asks for five: looking straight ahead, left, right, up and down. The camera follows your head and takes each shot only once you are facing the right way.
Then it checks what it got. A frame that is too dark, too far away, out of focus or taken with your eyes closed gets rejected. So does a photo of a screen, and a set where the five frames are not the same person. Every rejection names what to fix instead of showing "scan failed".
Your scan stays private. Nobody sees your frames unless you post one yourself, you choose how long Twynsa keeps them, and deleting your scan erases them and the matching data behind them.
What you can do once you are in
Your matches are ranked by how close the faces are, and the list moves as more people join. Open a profile, follow, save someone for later or start a chat. Chats carry voice and video calls.
Around that there is a feed to post to, communities to join, lookalike challenges to enter, and a face timeline that lines up each new scan against your older ones so you can watch your own face change.
Coins are the currency inside the app. You earn them or buy them, then spend them on things like keeping your scan history longer, or on a username someone has listed for sale. A paid plan covers some of the same ground for people who would rather subscribe.
Where it is now
The web app is finished as an MVP. Sign-up, scanning, matching, the feed, chats, calls, payments, the help centre and the legal pages are all in place, and the marketing site is live. The phone app has not started yet. That is next.
I build all of it myself: the app, the servers behind it, the face matching service, the admin tools and the marketing site. The scanning service is also built to be sold to other developers who want face matching in their own apps.
This is one of the projects I enjoy building.
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