HashThySelf is H, A, S, and H, the initials of the four founders who collectively go by the flattering term HASHers
Better late than never. Few people seem to get to this link and we often get queries asking "why the convoluted name HashThySelf?"
How did HashThySelf start?
The narrator swears this ain't apocryphal.
One of the founders of HashThySelf, A, was at a dinner party in Palo Alto during the weekend of April 4 2005. His partner, M, was wearing a long white dress, a black vest and a scarf. The host stopped by them as they were sipping their drinks and remarked to M "You look very pretty in this dress... Like Catherine Zeta-Jones in `Zorro'".
"Ahem!" A interrupted. "You realize it's not very polite to compliment a person on their looks when another perfectly good looking specimen is standing right beside them?"
The host looked startled for a moment, eyes darting searchingly around A and his partner. After A cleared his throat loudly several times, she stuttered, "Ah yes, and you... you look... look shmashingly like Zeta-Jones too..."
Later that night, while driving home, M said to A, "You know, why don't we create a web search engine that measures picture similarities and gives its users a list of famous people that look like them? Wouldn't that be fun?"
The following day, A caught up with an old friend H, an expert on image processing, always receptive to A's wacky ideas. A quick feasibility check later, A brainstormed with S and the other H over lunch, realized that the service could eventually be extended to do voice-prints, for which there was enormous expertise that could be licensed from their employer, and recipes for which there was tremendous in-house need, and HashThySelf was born in name. Of course, voice-prints and recipes are yet to come, but HashThySelf is here for thine enjoyment now!
- Hashers
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