How I Built an Enterprise Biometric API From a $0 Budget and an Android Phone

I don't own a laptop. I don't have a funded startup. I'm a self-taught developer from Nigeria, and six months ago I decided to build the kind of face-verification technology used in banking and identity-verification apps — using nothing but my Android phone.

This is the story of FaceID API.

What I built

FaceID is a production-ready biometric face verification API. Any developer can add face liveness detection to a web or mobile app in under 10 minutes. It handles:

A 4-direction head challenge plus a mouth-open check for liveness

How I Built an Enterprise Biometric API From a $0 Budget and an Android Phone

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