finda.photo
Creative
stock photo search
SHOW HN2016
310points
64comments
#57of 2,264 in 2016
Top 3%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
4 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 12 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Execution: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good design and colour chooser
From 2 comments
I really like both the selection and the color chooser! Did you do any manual selection of the photos?
uvesten on HNI like the domain, the design is usable, and the database is great. This has it all.
vortico on HN
Good selection of photos
From 1 comment
I really like both the selection and the color chooser! Did you do any manual selection of the photos?
uvesten on HN
Objections
Search returns irrelevant or mislabelled results
From 3 comments
Firstly it is slow... Secondly I have typed "wolf" and I got: 3 foxes, 1 lion, 2 monkeys, 1 snow house and 2 wolfs that do not look like wolfs !?
trtmrt on HNhttp://finda.photo/image/14847 - Tags are weird. This is not a dog, mouse, canine or feline. It's not sitting. It has 'eyes' but I think that might be irrelevant. Although I…
chrxr on HNHi - for some reason the search bar keeps changing my search terms eg Australia --> Australium
j_lev on HN
Site is slow or crashes under load
From 2 comments
Firstly it is slow... Secondly I have typed "wolf" and I got: 3 foxes, 1 lion, 2 monkeys, 1 snow house and 2 wolfs that do not look like wolfs !?
trtmrt on HNI ran into a Laravel error on the homepage due to the server running out of memory.
fareesh on HN
Photo attribution is truncated to domain names
From 1 comment
I like to think I am very conscious of copyright. I might not always adhere to it in my person life (who can claim they do these days?!) but professionally, everything is done…
oliwarner on HN
Requests
Add attribution with uploader details
From 2 comments
I like to think I am very conscious of copyright. I might not always adhere to it in my person life (who can claim they do these days?!) but professionally, everything is done…
oliwarner on HNThese CC0 silos are quite risky to use in a professional context. They often collect images en masse from a bunch of sources without further inspection. If someone uploads a…
unicornporn on HN
Add spelling tolerance and stemming to search
From 2 comments
[Full disclosure, I work on a service called Azure Search] Very nice site! Since your site is so much based around search, I thought I would pass on a few suggestions based on…
liamca on HNHave you looked into using stemming? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming Most major languages should have a library available to handle this for you.
mintplant on HN
Add aspect ratio search
From 1 comment
Looks good. Feedback from a designer I showed this to: it would be useful to search based on aspect ratio (landscape vs portrait at minimum).
m-i-l on HN
Questions
Where the photos come from
From 1 comment
Just curiosity, where the owner possibly find all these photos to fill up the database?
edpichler on HN
How colour and feature search works
From 1 comment
Very nice! What are you using to search the photos by colour and feature?
lucaspiller on HN
Alternatives named
Pexels
From 2 comments
I always use https://pexels.com. They also have only CC0 images.
BrunoJo on HNAdding to the list: Pixels [3] https://www.pexels.com [4] https://www.pexels.com/photo-license/ They currently have over 5000 photos (~600 new images are added every month)
scope on HN
Pixabay
From 1 comment
Check also http://pixabay.com/ for Public Domain pictures, I've found many awesome gems there
franciscop on HN
Flickr
From 1 comment
Why not just use flickr? A search for images with "No known copyright restrictions" returned 663,502 results.…
brandonheato on HN
Librestock
From 2 comments
There's also http://librestock.com/, which you can use to search Pexels, but also a few other sites.
kjaer on HNSay no more, http://librestock.com
davegri on HN