UnHinge

The pitch

A hackathon project that erases your ex from your photo library. Point it at your camera roll, give it a face, walk away. UnHinge mass-edits photos, removing or altering the people you'd rather not scroll past, without making you do the work one image at a time.

Built at AGI House under my Romantic Hacker umbrella, where every project is some variation of "what if AI was actually useful for the emotionally inconvenient parts of being a person."

How it works

• You give it a face (a recent photo will do)
• It scans the camera roll, identifies that face across thousands of photos
• It mass-edits (remove, blur, or replace) based on whatever flavor of "I'm done" you pick

Placement

3rd place, AGI House AI Hackathon.

Why it's filed under Romantic Hacker

Romantic Hacker is the larger umbrella for the AI projects I build that exist somewhere between "useful tool" and "wry commentary." UnHinge is the most literal of those. The entire UX is a punchline made in earnest. The reason the project lands at all is that mass-editing your own photos used to take six hours, and now it takes ninety seconds, and that's a real shift in what's available to you.

What I take from it

There's a category of personal-data tools that have been technically possible for years and socially impossible to ship inside a big company. Hackathons are where they get to exist for forty-eight hours and remind us they're real.