Show HN: Image search engine I built and subsequently abandoned

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by dvt • 13 years ago

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bink-lynch• 13 years ago

I'd say that is pretty impressive.

dvt3• 13 years ago

Thanks! :)

ifmw• 13 years ago

Nice product but would you mind sharing the reasons why you abandoned it?

Bing image search used to have a nearly identical feature but the flow was different. You would start with a keyword search for images, and could refine your search by drawing on a pixel grid in the colours of your choice. I personally got a kick out of drawing things like drawing a yellow sunset setting in the left over a blue ocean and having image search results contain that.

Sadly bing appears to have removed that very very hidden feature. Perhaps for technical reasons similar to yours (if any?)?

dvt3• 13 years ago

There was no real practical application. I don't have the money to run a huge server farm serving hundreds of thousands of pictures to actually make it viable.

It was mostly an experiment of me learning how to work with OpenCV. I had no idea Bing had something similar. That's very cool. At least it shows I'm not completely bonkers.

gillis• 13 years ago

That's very unique and impressive! Any chance you would make it open-source?

dvt3• 13 years ago

Yep, actually already did! It's at https://github.com/dvx/skrch

Code is very messy, though -- I may clean it up in the next couple of weeks :P

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