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STARFISH Jeff Grimes – iOS Development and Product Lead Prashanth Bala – Backend Development Trevor Assaf – Image Processing Matt Safian – Design
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Problem • Women and girls have lots of nail polish. • Friends often ask “Nice nail polish! What color is that? What
brand is it? Where’d you get it?” • But it’s difficult to remember which brand and color it is.
• Starfish is an iPhone app that solves this problem. • Users snap a picture of nails they like and get color and brand
matches from Essie, OPI, L’Oreal, and other top brands. • They can browse and purchase matching nail polishes.
Think “Shazam for nail polish.”
Solution
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Snap a picture of nails. 1
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Browse top color matches and complementary colors.
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View details and purchase. 3
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Features and Technical Details • Make slight adjustments to color after taking picture to
compensate for different lighting conditions. • Get results in under 1.5 seconds due to scalable database
built in Scala (functional paradigms) with Akka Actors concurrency model.
• Purchase nail polishes with one click through Amazon. • No open-source algorithm exists that trivializes the problem
of color-matching with Amazon products, so we designed our own algorithm – a hybrid of several proven image analysis techniques.
• The algorithm’s final step maps the color space of Amazon products to HSV for vector analysis.
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The Story of Starfish • Created in 24 hours at Greylock Hackfest 2013, an
invitation-only hackathon held by Greylock Partners in San Francisco at Airbnb headquarters.
• Starfish won Top 10 honors out of 60+ teams. • The team is working now to add the finishing touches to
the app and release Starfish to the App Store.