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Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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I apologize in advance if you're sick of hearing this, but... I clicked through to your sites 'cause I dig your angle and I saw the bit about the kindle. Ouch, dude. Money sure ain't everything but holy crap. You have my condolences. Keep building awesome shit, please. edit: followup question - do you still have it?

I will never part with my expensive kindle. Lolol. I read so many good books on it.

Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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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.

Definitely! Great app! Hadn't seen MemeSearch, downloading it now.

Thank you. It's been over a year since I last maintained it, and I've noticed that the model behaves abnormally on iOS 17 (when searching for 'content', every query results in the same image). I have already fixed this issue in version 1.0.4 and am currently waiting for the review to be approved.

Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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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.

Why? I can't think of a use for this.

people that have a lot of photos with QR codes would want it :).

You could search your images for qr codes that go to linkedin, ig, or fb pages. or find the qr code wifi passwords.

if you just have a screenshot of a QR code (like you zoomed in and screenshot the ticket's QR code, no other text), then finding the qr code by the event name could be useful.

Thailand requires qr codes that linked to the nutritional information registered online. this could be useful to help you search products that just show the back of the label and not the front of the product.

Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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I want to do this but for 30GB of PDFs

Hi @rmdes, Sagar here from Joyspace AI. I recently made a Show HN post[0] around documents search engine.

We can do this very easily for you. We can provide Search output with context that you can further feed to an LLM for processing to extract events. Let me know if you are interested.

You can get in touch with me at sagar at joyspace dot ai.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39980902

Re: I accidentally built a meme search engine

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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.

Thanks for sharing about immich. I have a task that has been on my to-do list for several years now. Amongst all the WhatsApp media on my phone I would like to get a list of all the videos and photos with my family in it and then delete the rest. Is something like this possible with immich?

For anyone in the same boat as my self, I later found out that this is actually very easy to achieve (thanks to ChatGPT). Theoretically, this is how it is done

1. Encode faces, there is a library called face_recognition, that can grab faces from pictures and encode them 2. Group the faces data using `pairwise_distances(encodings, metric='euclidean')`, you only need sklearn library for this

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