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Show HN: My side project, Instant Visual Search for Etsy.
I was inspired by Feross Aboukhadijeh's instant search for YouTube, so I took the latest Etsy API and built an instant search for them. I'd love it if you'd try it out and let me know what you think. It is at http://www.glancely.com/
I really hope it doesn't need an explanation, but start typing what you're looking for. I used tags on the listings (among other things) to fuel my suggestions. Click a color to filter on those listings, click to sort on price. Click again to deselect.
I've tested on the latest Firefox, Chrome and IE on Windows and Safari on an iPad. You will need JavaScript to run this as it is. I plan to build a no script (and non-instant) version later.
If I have a tl;dr from all this, it's "use jQuery" I've rolled AJAX/JavaScript apps by hand before and was really amazed at what jQuery enabled me to do so rapidly.
- dabent 16y agoClickable: http://www.glancely.com/ http://www.glancely.com/
- allenp 16y agoDid you pre-analyze the images to do the color filters?
- singer 16y ago"We use the Etsy API to get the latest listings from Etsy multiple times a day. We then take the listings, index them by their titles, tags, materials, colors and price."
- jfarmer 16y agoThe Etsy API returns the primary color of an image.
- code_duck 16y agoVery, very poorly. A large percentage of images are labeled #ffffff, others are simply wrong. They've known for years; no improvements.
- mironlulic 16y agoNice work
- ydant 16y agoI'd suggest putting something letting the user know what it does (beyond the little label beside the search box). It's a pretty handy tool, but it doesn't make it clear what it does - which is going to make sharing it a lot harder.
- dabent 16y agoThanks for the feedback. I'll have to work on that. I thought about putting a little graphic below on startup that explains the site more.
- PixelJ 16y agoReally great: I like its speed and layout. The color search is a nice touch. My only complaint is about the quality/quantity of results. When I searched for "pulp art" I only see _3_ results whereas Etsy itself finds 531. http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_query=pulp+art http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_query=pulp+art
- dabent 16y agoThanks! I appreciate the kind words. The results: I'm working on that. This is more like the "MVSP" version as in Minimum Viable Side Project.
- imwilsonxu 16y agocool, that is fast! And i like that color filter, also. two things after playing around: 1. it's a little inconvenient to hover on the pics to checkout the price every time. 2. where's the navigation, sth like 'next page'?
- dabent 16y agoThanks. I may have to experiment with the price/hover, but the navigation features are definitely on my mind for the future releases.
- logicb 16y agoCool ....
- iworkforthem 16y agoEr.. the hyperlink on the Developed by ETSY API is pointing to some where else. Should ideally be linked to http://developer.etsy.com http://developer.etsy.com :P
- dabent 16y agoThanks! Great catch. Silly typo - fixed now.