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Show HN: I created a reverse search engine to find the source of anime clips.
Hi, my name is Rayn. I am a solo independent entrepreneur. Initially, my only reason for learning was to make tons of money, but after completing the learning process, I was very confused about what my first project on the internet should be. I started browsing the internet for ideas but got bored and wasted time on social media. I noticed that in the comment sections of anime clips, many people were asking for the anime name and episode. That's when I thought, "Let's make an anime reverse search engine," and boom, Cleithral was born. Just upload a video, image, or gif, and it will give you the anime name and episode number.
To be honest, I chose the name Cleithral because I had a failed Shopify shop with that domain name, so I just reused it. That's the story behind my first project.
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- anigbrowl 2y agoIt's good! I like anime a lot, and also use it for flashcard training in Anki. So I view an average of 100 short clips/day, ranging from the very popular to the fairly obscure. It got most still frames I tried it out on, and did OK with deliberate fakes (eg stills from ordinary movies, where it found fairly close approximations to the source image). Missed a few submissions completely, if I was picking for very obscure/forgotten anime, but also succeeded with some that I didn't expect. Minor bug: name and description don't update properly if you upload successive clips/images.
- anigbrowl 2y agoMight work even better as a browser extension.
- Mrvolcano 2y agoThanks for the suggestion. I might have a logic about how the extension should work.
- Mrvolcano 2y agoAlright fixed it. For some reason the state of one of my component wasn't updating but it's fixed now
- absoluteunit1 2y ago> “ I like anime a lot, and also use it for flashcard training in Anki.” Sorry, I’m not sure I understand this sentence; what do you mean when you “use it for Flashcard training” ?
- potatoball 2y agoAnki is a flashcard system that makes use of spaced repetition to help one learn a topic. I came across a project/service that used Japanese anime screenshots to teach the language, and incorporated it with Anki cards. Not sure if absoluteunit1 meant that project by what he said.
- absoluteunit1 2y agoAh I see; initially I didn’t understand what you were using Anki for in relation to anime. It’s to learn Japanese; got it
- esdf 2y agoFor reference another site that does this with images is https://trace.moe/ https://trace.moe/
- yieldcrv 2y agoI use LLM’s for product and domain names see if you can get inspiration from those things
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- tetris11 2y agoMmm. I showed it Frieren and it gave me Nanbaka. The scene sure looks a lot like her, but it wasn't her
- Mrvolcano 2y agoIt's not perfect. It's just a free, simple tool. Also, it will only work if the image you upload is from an anime episode, fan art, or a picture from Google. The uploaded image needs to be from the anime episode. This is actually my first project that i put live on internet.
- Mrvolcano 2y agoThanks for trying it.
- no-dr-onboard 2y agoWonder what corpus this was trained on or what it sources from.
- RockRobotRock 2y agoA lot of nyaa.si torrents
- Mrvolcano 2y agoI use the trace.moe free api for this.
- hollow-moe 2y agoSeems to just use trace.moe ? And begs for donations on every request. Did you really made your own models or are you just using an api and try to make money on their back ?
- Mrvolcano 2y agoYes, this website does use trace.moe. I believe trace.moe prohibits commercial usage of their API, but since I am only asking for donations, I don't think it can be considered commercial use, so I would say I'm good. Also, I know Python and the Hugging Face transformer API, so I could build my own model. However, I didn't because this is my first project that I put live on the internet, and I don't have an RTX A100 nor can I afford to rent one, so I wanted to keep it simple. Besides, if an API for something I want already exists, why should I build my own?
- djmips 2y agoGuys! I made a search engine! Hey it just uses a Google search API.. Yep!
- wasteduniverse 2y ago[dead]