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Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by linuws »

Nice one! I would love if it could use coordinates too. Like, "Pool and outdoor shower near me" or "Flower garden with 1h commute to work "

I know it's hard to figure out time depending on your transportation but at least that would not give me search results from the other side of the country.

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by joking »

etewiah wrote: post #28
Onavo wrote: post #24

Can you run all your photos through a focal length/depth of field transform to match the human eye? Real estate agents like to bait and switch and waste people's time with glamorous photos that are made using focals lengths that are very different from actual humans.

That's interesting, can you explain a bit more. How would you go about transforming the focal length or depth

Almost as easy as cropping the center. Doing it well automatically is another kind of problem

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by joking »

linuws wrote: post #42

Nice one! I would love if it could use coordinates too. Like, "Pool and outdoor shower near me" or "Flower garden with 1h commute to work " I know it's hard to figure out time depending on your transportation but at least that would not give me search results from the other side of the country.

That kind of search is already available in many portals. You can actually find the shape of a polígon with the places you can reach in 1h of conmuté easily, as there is a google maps api for it (distance matrix) and finding the properties in a polygon is a solved problem. (

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by joking »

sky_rw wrote: post #20
kureikain wrote: post #6

We did this in 2013, got serve with a lot of lawsuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeighborCity Be careful with the real estate industry

It seems like this site is more EU based. Does anybody here know if there is an MLS equivalent in this jurisdiction and/or if similar copyright holders over there are as litigious?

I was on the real state listing site side long time ago, we were trying to block scrapers from getting our data, at the en we loss, and now we pay them to send us users instead of paying Google ads because it’s cheaper. Fun times

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by amelius »

smith7018 wrote: post #18
amelius wrote: post #16

Can someone please build something like this for clothes? Because Google refuses to build a search system where I can select a size, color and brand.

Encore is a new-ish used clothing indexer that might be what you're looking for. I also use Gem which doesn't use AI but indexes multiple vintage/used sites and will notify you when something pops up with your saved searches.

Sounds like steps in the right direction, but not entirely what I'm looking for.

I want AI that can scrape shop websites for attributes that people commonly search for, such as size and color, etc., but also shipping methods, shipping costs, etc. I think this would be trivial for an LLM. For me the scope should be bigger than just used clothes. I prefer new clothes (but I wear them until the end). And the system should be web-wide, not just selected shops.

And then I want a basic filtering system that allows me to quickly find what I need by checking some boxes.

It sounds so simple ...

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by travisleestreet »

youdont wrote: post #48

It's strange that searches add a filter pill with a cross, but a new search just replaces all the filters. It would be great to iteratively build up filters.

Agreed, we're working on this type of additive search at the moment. Just did a bunch of user testing on it yesterday.
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