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FriendlyFace — Personalized face wear maps your face on a mask or gaiter
Our personalized DTC facewear leverages computer vision. Our first product, masks, were created during a pandemic - followed up by luxurious, reversible gaiters. Our mission is to amplify joy, levity, and happiness while making comfortable and safe products.
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Love the idea of making masks more human. Masks don't seem like a typical low-overhead software startup; what was the hardest thing you've learned throughout the whole process. Was there anything that surprised and delighted you about this business?
I got one of these a couple of weeks ago and highly recommend it. It makes everyone around me smile and is super high quality.
I was just thinking what would be a perfect item to represent the ridiculously painful year we just went through... the world turned upside down, and everyone is wearing masks. I’m going to get one so that 5 years from now, talking about the pandemic and how businesses had to pivot to survive, this seems like a quintessential moment. There’s my face on a mask, that’s what I looked like in 2020 and we all had to wear masks. All the disposable masks are going to be tossed, but this one… a keeper! Thanks for making it.
Love this product and the technology!
Super fun to make different emotions and it lights people up when they see it and the smile.
Love connecting with people.
Mass customization in the DTC space is insanely hard to nail. Cool tech, using the faceID camera on the app, tried it this morn. Where do you think this will go in the future?
Super Awesome! Will make the world "always smiling". This is what we need during these tough times! Thank you @ashbhoopathy! 😁
Such a cool concept and the masks themselves are great quality. Got one for everybody in my fam. Can easily wash them with included bag and replace filters. Always get a bunch of compliments when we go out. Highly recommended!
I can vouch for this product *one hundo*. When you go around "smiling" all the time – a trick I never managed with Regular Face – it's remarkable how many minor but cumulative daily interactions are just better, esp. with overworked front-line staff. Customer service gold. It also happens to be hella comfy and snug.
@trey_cannon Thank you for the advice. Here's a little story for you. Imagine people who've suffered strokes or facial surgeries with irrevocable changes in their face. Now imagine that they could have their smile fixed and sport that smile for the first time in years on a mask. This is exactly what FriendlyFace has done for many people and it's beautiful. I respect your opinion, but normalizing a sea of blue and white anonymous faces, in my opinion, is more creepy than seeing faces. Have a lovely day!
the reactions you get in public make it easily worth it, and i love the replaceable filters!
@ashbhoopathy do people order more with big smiles or small?
Our family loved ours when we got them in... the slight fun smile really felt the best on ours at least.
What emotion would you tell someone to start with on their mask?
@ashbhoopathy we made a blanket out of my sons t shirts... all the ones that came from camps, and school, teams during high school. It’s a show piece for his room now and all his friends really comment on it.
That’s what these will be for us hopefully soon! People will see my friendly face in my office in 3 years and remember.
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