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Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by timfrietas »

grimtrigger wrote: post #70
timfrietas wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He/she is also infringing on IP rights. For example they are photoshopping out the model from Amazon and Lord and Taylor product pages and reusing those images without permission. Even though it's not for profit as soon as it gets large enough for those companies to notice the creator can expect a cease and desist letter.

He's linking to the products... why would they send a cease and desist to a website sending them targeted leads?

Because companies are pretty defensive their brand and also in some cases the contracts with modeling agencies may be a factor.

Source: I work at Amazon and am working closely with product imaging at the moment.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by [deleted] »

dxbydt wrote: post #11

Very nicely done. If you did this for Indian celebrities, VCs in India would throw eight figure sums to buy you out. As an immigrant, I'd say Americans are relatively more rational ie. not so celeb-crazy as to completely remodel themselves after a celebrity, though teens, especially teen girls tend to be an the outlier in this aspect. But if you look at celeb-crazy countries like India, you have grown men & women in…

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Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by richmarr »

The main scalability issue with this is that the products you've found will quickly go out of stock, so as you build up a collection of outfits you'll face an increasing burden going back and checking all of the products to see if they're in stock (or risk damaging your brand).

I worked on something similar back in 2008. We were looking at ways of monetising our visual similarity engine. We could mark a set of query products for each outfit and return a selection of products that were both similar and in-stock and give the customer the option of filtering by price range or whatever.

There were some nice challenges in there, like processing gigabytes of retailer feeds as rapidly as possible looking for new items, standardising various huge feeds without using up developer time, product deduplication, image feature extraction, designing the indexing method (we ended up using the Visual Words technique with a custom distributed Lucene inverted index as Solr didn't support partitions at the time). It was a really fun project... and I've drifted far enough off topic that I'm going to finish up.

The tech was pretty solid (and replicable if you can get someone decent to do the CBIR piece) but we ran out of runway.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jacquesm »

grimtrigger wrote: post #70
timfrietas wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He/she is also infringing on IP rights. For example they are photoshopping out the model from Amazon and Lord and Taylor product pages and reusing those images without permission. Even though it's not for profit as soon as it gets large enough for those companies to notice the creator can expect a cease and desist letter.

He's linking to the products... why would they send a cease and desist to a website sending them targeted leads?

Because fighting infringement trumps short term profits for larger companies.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jacquesm »

calmturtle wrote: post #67

I love this idea! I don't think you need to use celebrities at all. If you had well dressed men with different styles with links to the stores where one can purchase the items, I think men will like it more. I don't think a lot of men feel comfortable with "dressing like a celebrity" but most don't mind getting ideas for a wardrobe. It will also solve the issue of rights infringements. The only thing I didn't like is…

You see carbon copies of celebrities running around all the time, in fact that is one of the main drivers behind the fashion industry. Both men and women do this and even though it totally weirds me out (I'm a jeans-and-t-shirt guy on private time and I'll add a simple shirt on professional days) I do think there is a business case by tying into celebrities. It immediately creates a rights issue though.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by jacquesm »

hnriot wrote: post #35

Who wants to copy what some celeb has on??? I can't believe there's a market for this. Then again, I thought Twitter was a stupid idea...

At a guess, people that think that if they dress like celebrities they'll be more attractive somehow.

I couldn't care less what a celebrity wears but enough people do that I think it might work, judging by the reactions here he's found a bunch of takers already.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by DaveLond »

richmarr wrote: post #105

The main scalability issue with this is that the products you've found will quickly go out of stock, so as you build up a collection of outfits you'll face an increasing burden going back and checking all of the products to see if they're in stock (or risk damaging your brand). I worked on something similar back in 2008. We were looking at ways of monetising our visual similarity engine. We could mark a set of query…

Isn't that problem self-solving? Who wants to dress like a celebrity dressed last season- you want what they're wearing this season. Keep it up to date, with what's "in" now.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about fashion.

Re: Show HN: Famous Outfits

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Post by natewinn »

dxbydt wrote: post #11

Very nicely done. If you did this for Indian celebrities, VCs in India would throw eight figure sums to buy you out. As an immigrant, I'd say Americans are relatively more rational ie. not so celeb-crazy as to completely remodel themselves after a celebrity, though teens, especially teen girls tend to be an the outlier in this aspect. But if you look at celeb-crazy countries like India, you have grown men & women in…

Thanks for the kind words about the site! I would disagree that American's are "not so celeb-crazy." I think many American's are very in tune with celebrities. Not just their clothing, but every aspect of their life. Though some people might not want to duplicate an exact look, we feel many are looking to celebs for the latest fashion inspiration. Thanks again!
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