Hello, my name is Denis, and I'm CEO of neural.love: thank you for your feedback, the account needed to deliver you a result, generation could take around 5-20 minutes. If you will close the registration popup your uploaded file will be deleted automatically.
However you are correct, it is not as transparent now that we would like to ask user to register - we are in beta currently, and your feedback is important for us, we will think how to improve the registration form in terms of transparency.
It’s also fair to ask for registration in order to prevent abuse / record consent for terms and privacy.
However, it would be best if you asked that before uploading the photo. Many people seem frustrated that their data was processed and now they must create an account to see the result/delete the data.
Once again, it looks great, it’s just an expectation/transparency issue :)
Edit: If it’s ok for you to disclose this, what kind of infra are you running on? Just curious.
We will change the way registration works on Portrait HD today, thank you again for your feedback :) It will ask to register before the upload itself
We are on Amazon architecture right now with 15+ servers, 5-20 minutes only because there is a 600 tasks in the processing line and it's quite long, we have launched it today
48 hours (24 hours is the least we could get with AWS S3, but files could be available several hours after expiration time per their documentation, so we wrote 48 hours to be sure). You can also check other removal times here https://neural.love/terms
However you are correct, it is not as transparent now that we would like to ask user to register - we are in beta currently, and your feedback is important for us, we will think how to improve the registration form in terms of transparency.