Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials
Hat tip to the evil growth marketing technique (source long lost, sorry) suggesting use of a default female "outline" avatar to strongly motivate account creation / gender reassignment (and perhaps even replacement with genuine profile pictures)!<p>Edit: Twitter recently discussed changing default avatars, in part because their default was often left in place as "fun and cute": <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/rethinking-our-default-profile-photo.html" rel="nofollow">https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/...</a><p>My main point was that default avatars can drive sign-ups motivated primarily just to change it.