Inside SilverAI: What We're Building and Shipping 2025-09

Camera AI for good: We started R&D on making cameras since a while ago. We are now working on detecting in live CCTV an elderly person or a baby falling, to alert the caretaker in real time. Our target is doing it on-device rather than on the server. That sounds like a basic computer vision problem, but doing it reliably is very hard. Too many false positives and false negatives. This is part of our broader strategy to move toward a combination of hardware and software products, rather than software only.

Focus on low price: This change hairstyle feature, among others features, is part of our effort to mitigate the impact of Nano Banana. If we provide the same quality at 10× lower cost for some specific tasks, then enterprises and professional users will pick us instead of Nano Banana. We must say that it is harder to retain mainstream users, who only use these features once in a while.

Fix bald hair: We drill further into special cases. For example, we fix bald or receding hairlines, so that you look better online. We just touch it up a little bit so that it looks natural and just like you. No one is going to complain, “hey, you look different.” We do our best to bring value to our users and make them a bit happier after using our app.

SnapEdit mentioned by Grok: Nope, that watermark at the bottom of the photo is not our logo. But thanks Grok for your nice words. We are more than happy to save our users $1,200. We get mentioned by Grok quite frequently on X; we don’t do any kind of Answer Engine Optimization though. For now, we just try to do our best on the products and let LLMs spread the word.

App of the Day: This time, SnapEdit was featured as App of the Day in the Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau stores. We have had a strong presence there for two years, thanks to some viral posts about our remove-object features that introduced us to their mainstream users.

Using cloud services: From the beginning, we have always consciously abstained from using fancy cloud services. We use only two services in production from cloud providers: virtual machines and storage. They are super flexible, super scalable, and help us avoid vendor lock-in. Other services we host ourselves on top of the two. So we can use AWS, GCP, and Azure and balance the load and cost among them seamlessly.

Sample images: For a while, for each feature in our apps, we always had a couple of sample images for users to try out, to have a quick taste of what the feature does. We recently found that users don’t use these sample images much; they just go directly to their photos. So we will drop these soon.

Thanks for all the feedback. If anything you want us to improve next, please don’t hesitate to tell us.