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Selfie Age & Gender Estimator API

Low-cost, scalable age and gender estimation for selfie verification

Problem
Developers building platforms that require selfie verification currently use the ChatGPT API to estimate age and gender. Results are good but costs become prohibitive at scale. They need cheaper, scalable alternatives.
Solution
A lightweight API based on open-source models that estimates age range and gender, billed per call at a fraction of general-purpose LLM API costs. Developers upload a selfie and get structured results.
Users
Developers of social, e-commerce, gaming platforms needing selfie verification
MVP
Wrap open-source age/gender models as an HTTP API; support image upload; return age range and gender; free trial credits; simple docs and SDK
Revenue
Tiered per-call pricing with free tier for trials; enterprise plan with private deployment
Why now
Open-source facial attribute models are mature and cheap to run; general LLM APIs are expensive, giving vertical lightweight APIs a price advantage

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  1. Hacker NewsAsk HN: Cheaper ways to estimate age and gender from selfies?2↑ 0
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