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I accidentally built a meme search engine

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Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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Post by ggrelet »

mazzystar wrote: post #30
rovr138 wrote: post #12

You might be interested in this, https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable , https://queryable.app/ I run it on my iPhone. Native app. Doesn't require a network connection (great for privacy). > Queryable is a Core ML model that runs locally on your device. Leveraging OpenAI CLIP's model encoding technology to connect images and text, you can search your iPhone photo album using any natural language input. Most importa…

Thank you for your introduction! After creating Queryable, I also developed an app called MemeSearch, which searches for memes on Reddit ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memesearch-reddit-meme-finder/... ). Although it's completely free, it hasn't been downloaded by many users. I thought nobody wanted it, so I'm glad to see there are still some people who share a similar taste.

Thanks for Queryable, I use it quite often. As for Reddit meme finder, how do you deal with reddits sudden price increase for its api?

Also, I think you should use another icon from this app because it looks like a goofy side project. It probably is but people would probably not download iPhone apps if the icon doesn’t look professional. (My two cents)

Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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Post by mft_ »

rmdes wrote: post #5

I want to do this but for 30GB of PDFs

I steered a friend towards Paperless (and away from an LLM solution) as a way of searching/accessing GBs of architectural PDFs recently - so far, it’s apparently working well for them.

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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Post by brabel »

> I imagine that we will see this tech rolled into all the various photo apps shortly.

Yeah, Google's and Apple's Photos both can search for pictures given a description of what you're looking for. In my experience both work very well (e.g. search for "cars" in your pics, and it'll find all your cars over the years if you, like me, take pictures with your cars a lot :) ).

Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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Post by fxtentacle »

bo0tzz wrote: post #3

Last year we added CLIP-based image search to https://immich.app/ and even though I have a pretty good understanding of how it works, it still blows my mind damn near every day. It's the closest thing to magic I've ever seen.

Wow I have been looking for something like that for a long time. Thanks for telling me about immich :)

Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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Post by itake »

bo0tzz wrote: post #15
apricot13 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just needs OCR for the perfect meme searching solution!

OCR will be there at some point, but it already does a surprisingly good job without!

I'd also consider adding searching via QR codes. you could search by the content in the QR code (like the url) or if its a URL, search the content on the page of the QR code.

Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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Post by rmdes »

mft_ wrote: post #32
rmdes wrote: post #5

I want to do this but for 30GB of PDFs

I steered a friend towards Paperless (and away from an LLM solution) as a way of searching/accessing GBs of architectural PDFs recently - so far, it’s apparently working well for them. https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

I have been playing with it for a while but I miss a conversational interface where I can interrogate the PDF's and summarize them or let's say, find all the main events per year in a corpus of text and build a time-line of said events (context legal case with tons of text data to parse)

Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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Post by pwillia7 »

dsvf wrote: post #23
bo0tzz wrote: post #3

Last year we added CLIP-based image search to https://immich.app/ and even though I have a pretty good understanding of how it works, it still blows my mind damn near every day. It's the closest thing to magic I've ever seen.

Happy immich user here! I once took a cute photo of our baby chewing on a whisk, and actually finding the correct photo in an unsorted, untagged huge pile of photos by simply searching for "whisk" was a mindblow experience! It is an amazingly powerful tool!

How does it compare to Google Photo search? I search things like 'whisk' with success regularly... though to be fair not as random as whisk, but things like "steering wheel"

Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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Post by wruza »

bo0tzz wrote: post #3

Last year we added CLIP-based image search to https://immich.app/ and even though I have a pretty good understanding of how it works, it still blows my mind damn near every day. It's the closest thing to magic I've ever seen.

The “Demo portal” link breaks back button, btw.
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