Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity

Re:Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity by pr337h4m on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:21PM (#34615019)

Unfortunately, this has been abandoned :( Since more than a year, uploading an image or signing up just leads to a server error. Was really amazing when it worked. The creator hasn't been active on Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, HN, etc. either.

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Re:Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity by robertheadley on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:39PM (#34615356)

Yeah. It was a very promising tool. Creator is unresponsive.

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Re:Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity by ed25519FUUU on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @05:49PM (#34619177)

Maybe he passed away?

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Re:Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity by dinobones on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:40PM (#34621349)

No way he passed away. Running a service like this costs quite a bit of money to host all these images and pay for all their bandwidth. He's still probably shelling out $200+/month on this.

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Re:Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity by forsythe_ on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:50PM (#34616544)

Oh no. I never understood why the upload didn't work but had no idea it was abandoned. That really sucks.

For a while now I've been using it a few times a week to find reference images for drawing. I find it beats Pinterest in terms of speed and relevance for most of my searches.

I really really don't want it to go down.

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I just browsed the creator's inactive social media pages. I wonder if they've passed away..?

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Re:Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity by danuker on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @06:23PM (#34619624)

Either that, or got hired by top-secret image-processing government/private agencies requiring complete silence.

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Re:Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity by nness on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @06:45PM (#34619892)

I've done as best of a search as I could and can't find anything which indicates they've passed — but they have been inactive for a few years now.

Maybe someone at Tabnine knows...

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Re:Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity by swyx on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:04PM (#34621906)

his instagram is private. maybe there? i hope he's ok.

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Re:Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity by naillo on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:55PM (#34616614)

Still works though (mostly) and still a pretty cool service.

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