Creating this thread to highlight innovations to avatar builders within Glide. This first one comes from
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Do you ever sleep 
your mind must be full of ideasā¦just when I finish looking at one of your apps and posts on the forum another one pops up. No wonder your an expert
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This is so cool
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Lol. Whatās this āsleepā thing you speak of?
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@Robert_Petitto Integration to the site - or you manually enjoying yourself creating lots of avatars ?
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Integrationā¦sort of. I kind of figured out the URL schema of modifying the avatar features on the site and now Iām building Glide functionality. The cool think is that the resulting image can be the avatar for the user in all other places of the app. Even betterā¦Iām going to try to allow people to unlock avatar features by āpurchasingā them. Stay tuned!
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#1 - looks good - fun!
#2 - I noticed you built it in āstagingā is this a problem later on when you want to move it out of staging?
#2b - I noticed the staging because I opened it in my browser! Love the web/app!
#3 - are you saying that this could feed RIGHT INTO the personās profile pic? (no uploads, just feeds into the profile pic google sheet cell? (thatās cool if that is what you meant)
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#1: Thanks!
#2 - Yesā¦it will 
. @davidā¦is there anyway to ātransferā an app from staging to live environment?
#2b - I know right?
#3 - Thatās exactly what Iām saying!
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This is amazing.
I assume youāre still using Claudinary for this images?
Why would these change so fast vs your Election US map app that takes 10 seconds to update the image?
Iām not using cloudinary, actually. The website https://getavataaars.com/ has the URL parameter-based customization built in. I just exploited it so could work with Glide 
Cloudinary takes a while with my Electoral College app because itās generating an image from a template with 50 overlays (states). Since each of the overlays has 4 variations (political parties) there are 5527200 variations of the image output. Cloudinary will cache each variation. So, the more the app gets used, the faster the image loading will occur because it will be accessing one of the cached variations rather than a fresh one.
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Very nicely done! @Robert_Petitto I see, you use the GET params:
https://getavataaars.com/?accessoriesType=Wayfarers&avatarStyle=Circle&clotheType=ShirtVNeck&eyeType=Default&eyebrowType=SadConcernedNatural&facialHairType=MoustacheFancy&hairColor=BrownDark&mouthType=Smile&skinColor=DarkBrown&topType=WinterHat3
If you get the actual SVG as a return, you can also modify the size (without loss of quality).
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If you get the actual SVG as a return
And do you know I could go about doing that? 
#2. TinyGraphs Avatar Generator
This one generates a UNIQUE avatar based on text input (name, email, anything) and some other choices. Play around with it!
I added functionality in the app to build and select an avatar that youāve designed.
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So cool. Planning to make this template available?
#3. Adorable.io
Like TinyGraphs, this whimsical avatar generator will create a unique avatar based on a keyword. That keyword can be the email address or name of your user. Use case: users sign into your app and get a unique default avatar until they create one themselves.
Have a go!
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Yeahā¦made this is staging by mistakeā¦donāt really feel like recreating it in production. Iāll make it copiable in case you want to see it in staging and then reproduce for youself!
Sadly not, I donāt think this is ever likely to be available.
I often wish the same!
Rats. Oh wellā¦thanks for the reply!
Can you make it copyable then YOU copy it into glide (out of staging)? I have not done much in staging so I am not aware of the way it may work.