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I think this is very promising MVP and with a little refinement could be quite useful. Nice work!",{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"37190017","sirmike_","I like it and thank you for creating this. Do not listen to the haters too too much. Just the valid feedback.",{"value":70,"source":55,"evidence":71},"Avatars look good and generating them is fun",[72,76],{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"37189106","ch_sm","Not GP, but I would drop the pagination in the pop-ups. Regular Scrolling, maybe even css snap-scroll, would be more convenient. On mobile, some of the icons are too small to be…",{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"37190549","dmje","It’s cool, I like it, congrats on getting something out the door :-) Would be cool if you could share - if the url updated as you edited?",[81,104,119,134,141],{"value":82,"source":55,"evidence":83},"Hidden options behind the +2 button make the UI confusing",[84,88,92,96,100],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"37194014","0ct4via","\"Accessories\" (Eyewear, face mask, earphones) and \"Others\" (facial hair) are hidden behind the \"+2\" above the Outfits button. Option replication: Mouth - pane 1, bottom row, the…",{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"37189027","publius_0xf3","Some bizarre UI decisions. Why are the extra options hidden behind the +2? Why does the selector obscure the face? Why are the previews for features so tiny as to be useless?…",{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"37188563","explosion-s","Where can I edit facial hair + glasses?",{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"37188631","aaronmiler","Found this by accident. Click the little `+2` on Outfits, and it opens Accessories\u002FFacial Hair",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"37188538","surgicalcolor","Why does every other generated avatar have a Hitler stache? I mean, why is that even an option? Also, you can't edit facial hair or glasses either?",{"value":105,"source":55,"evidence":106},"Sound plays on load or click and is annoying",[107,111,115],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"37188677","meindnoch","Since when can a website play sound without my consent?",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"37190786","voisin","Kill off the sounds altogether. Adds nothing to it and is totally unexpected.",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"37188774","marcuskaz","The sound is annoying and does not add much to selecting an item. All the features look small when selecting them, so hard to to see the differences until clicking. So trying out…",{"value":120,"source":55,"evidence":121},"Limited feminine options; avatars look male",[122,126,130],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"37188668","WA","All of them look male, even if you select the most feminine features. Edit: It's probably because of the width of the shoulders, the jawline, the thickness of the eyebrows (and…",{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"37189818","developer93","In 2023 you would expect the be able to represent women easily. This is quite a blasé response, and feels exclusionary.",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"37191451","bravura","Part of the issue is that the randomization has not been crafted carefully, and instead seems totally uniform. If 50% of the haircuts \u002F outfits \u002F whatever are feminine vs…",{"value":135,"source":55,"evidence":136},"Selector pop-up covers the avatar and previews are too small",[137,140],{"id":138,"by":117,"text":139},"37188808","Instead of the feature selector popping up and blocking the avatar, it would be nice to have it side to side, or top to bottom and not close on selection but allow for tapping…",{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},{"value":142,"source":55,"evidence":143},"Some options are odd, such as a toothbrush or Hitler-style mustache",[144,148],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"37194866","gremlinunderway","Why is there a toothbrush mustache even in there as an option? Like, even the most hipster or alternative people out there I've never seen people with one. I'm getting Hitler…",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},[150,158,169,173,177],{"value":151,"source":55,"evidence":152},"Change hair and skin colour",[153,154],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"37195954","morgango","Super cool. Did I miss it or is there a place to change hair color and skin tone?",{"value":159,"source":55,"evidence":160},"Show selector beside the preview and update live without extra clicks",[161,165],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"37191168","karmakaze","The main thing is to make it modeless. When there's space, like on a large desktop window, put the selector alongside the preview. Then any change in selection should update the…",{"id":166,"by":167,"text":168},"37189195","mxuribe","Its cute, but would be vastly better if the controls were a slight bit more exposed. Kudos to the developer\u002Fdesigner for creating something!",{"value":170,"source":55,"evidence":171},"Download as SVG",[172],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"value":174,"source":55,"evidence":175},"Update URL as avatar is edited",[176],{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},{"value":178,"source":55,"evidence":179},"Blank canvas option and scrolling instead of pagination",[180,184,188],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"37190143","duxup","I would suggest a blank canvas option. I found it hard to make adjustments with some of the defaults if I was going for a specific look.",{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"37190498","redgetan","i feel like scrolling would be better than pagination as its easier to select from the choices that are available",{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},[190,198],{"value":191,"source":55,"evidence":192},"Where to edit facial hair and glasses",[193,194],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"37191334","ShadowBanThis01","Why does the avatar have to have a beard? And what does the “+2” mean?",{"value":199,"source":55,"evidence":200},"Is there an API to generate avatars programmatically",[201,205],{"id":202,"by":203,"text":204},"37194637","clarkhacks","Maybe even an endpoint to respond with the image instead so they can be generated programmatically.",{"id":206,"by":207,"text":208},"37194919","devrafx","I made it, but I have to document that API: avartation-api.vercel.app\u002Fapi The code source: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002FDevrax\u002Favartation-api",[210,217,224],{"value":211,"source":55,"evidence":212},"Open Peeps based generators (opeeps.fun)",[213],{"id":214,"by":215,"text":216},"37190958","BoorishBears","There are some nicer equally open source options also built around Open Peeps This one even maps to a React Component you can embed elsewhere: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.opeeps.fun\u002F Definitely…",{"value":218,"source":55,"evidence":219},"PeepsLab (peepslab.com)",[220],{"id":221,"by":222,"text":223},"37189847","amitmerchant","A more saner one: https:\u002F\u002Fpeepslab.com",{"value":225,"source":55,"evidence":226},"notion-avatar.vercel.app",[227],{"id":228,"by":229,"text":230},"37198180","Alifatisk","There is also notion-avatar.vercel.app",{"comments":232,"answered":39,"key":233},4,[234,237,240],{"id":235,"text":236},"37189037","Hey, the developer here! 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