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Hey all! The Jam team and I are looking for a permaweb app that turns intials ➡️ png avatars for Jam.

Currently when a user signs up for Jam, we use their initials to generate them an avatar with Dice Bear Avatars.

With Dice Bear you can GET an avatar with initials by requesting a url with the initials in the path. For example - for a user with initials DG, we would GET: https://avatars.dicebear.com/api/initials/:dg.svg

It's a fantastic service and we love using it, there are just two issues with it:

1. It only has support for svgs, and we need pngs to render avatars in Slack and Gmail notifications.
2. It's a centralized app that's not guaranteed to run forever and we use it heavily in Jam!

We'd love to fund an initials ➡️ png avatars HTTP service that runs on Arweave. We think not only Jam will use it, but also any other team building apps that needs default avatars should use it! Anyway, think this will be an amazing app.

To keep it fast, it should probably store created pngs so that they don't need to be generated a second time. For example, the first time it fetches https://permaweb-avatars.example.com/initials/dg.png it can generate it from scratch, but the second time it should be able to reuse the one generated last time.