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Show HN: Image search engine I built and subsequently abandoned
- bink-lynch 13y agoI'd say that is pretty impressive.
- dvt 13y agoThanks! :)
- ifmw 13y agoNice 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?)?
- dvt 13y agoThere 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 13y agoThat's very unique and impressive! Any chance you would make it open-source?
- dvt 13y agoYep, actually already did! It's at https://github.com/dvx/skrch https://github.com/dvx/skrch Code is very messy, though -- I may clean it up in the next couple of weeks :P