Have you ever smiled at a complete stranger?

It is my pleasure to introduce Two of Us, the maiden voyage of Project Popcorn, an in-house ongoing project in which a new hire (that would be me) is paired with a couple of Barbarians (in this case: John Bresnik and Josh Carr), to make something awesome.

The premise is simple: take a webcam pic of your best smile to brighten someone else’s day, and get a smile in return!

And no cheating, we’ve got special smile detection software to make sure you’re sending a smile and not…something else.

The site is built in NodeJS, a cutting edge event driven web server and MongoDB. The smile detection software was written by Sebastián Alvarez largely at John’s request.  He can be contacted via seba.alvarez16@gmail.com or his github page: https://github.com/talvarez .