Show HN: I built a desktop app that indexes your media locally

Re:Show HN: I built a desktop app that indexes your media lo... by kevintouati on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:18PM (#44868315)

Interesting angle. Does the search use semantic embeddings so it can surface clips by concept rather than filename/metadata? If it nails the retrieval part, that could be the real differentiator.

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Re:Show HN: I built a desktop app that indexes your media lo... by correa_brian on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:24PM (#44868393)

Yeah, exactly. We capture the semantic meaning of each frame and complement the filename/metadata, so both options work.

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Re:Show HN: I built a desktop app that indexes your media lo... by akshaymalik1995 on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:46PM (#44868629)

Do we have any metrics on the time taken to index media files or the latency for performing semantic searches on them?

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Re:Show HN: I built a desktop app that indexes your media lo... by correa_brian on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:49PM (#44868661)

I'm on an M2 and it takes <5 minutes to index a 2hr movie. If you're trying to index a lot of media at once, we will queue it up to be indexed. We also do smart sampling to detect similar frames so if it two talking heads vs. a lot of different shots, it will process faster. In that case the audio is more valuable for the talking heads.

The semantic search queries typically take 100-250ms.

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