DeepNude app makers want to sell their business for $30,000

The so-called DeepNude app, an application that uses machine learning to ‘undress’ women in photos, is in the shop window for investors with its website, source code and all.

In a listing on Flippa, the makers ask for $30,000 for what they have set up so far: a site with half a million page views in June, a lot of media attention, a Twitter account with 22,000 followers and the entire application itself. According to the Estonian makers, the app must be ‘fun and safe’, but they cannot guarantee that themselves. By this they mean repacks of the app with malware and without a watermark on the end products. A buyer could earn good money from the app if it fixes the security, they say.

On their website they link to the auction and they also announced it on Twitter. However, that tweet has been removed as it is against the platform’s house rules. The public often sees it that way: the appearance of DeepNude last month led to so much criticism that the makers took the app offline. “The world is not ready for DeepNude yet,” they said at the time. Now, about three weeks later, the makers have obviously changed their position.

Although the software has been taken offline, it probably doesn’t matter whether the app is sold or not. The app has been sold “many times” in the short time after release, and based on that, it’s cracked, reverse-engineered, and redistributed, be it for free, for a fee, with malware, or a combination of the two.