mebe
AI
image search api
SHOW HN2013
115points
57comments
#194of 1,739 in 2013
Top 12%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
6 positive, 24 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Execution: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Unique and useful idea
From 3 comments
This is unique and useful. +1 for letting me specific size and aspect ratio
tmchow on HNseems like a great idea! wondering if you could plug this into comments on facebook where you could have your own such images embedded into text, like custom emoticons (or make…
nikhilsaraf9 on HNFinally, something useful on the internet!
Falling3 on HN
Option to set size and aspect ratio
From 2 comments
This is unique and useful. +1 for letting me specific size and aspect ratio
tmchow on HNThats really cool. How bout letting me specify more params like size?
noonespecial on HN
Objections
Images not loading or site overloaded at times
From 2 comments
Oh, yes, please! Actually none of the images are loading...
Amfy on HNI really would like to use this but it seems like it's getting hammered right now. Edit: seems to be working now
tkahn6 on HN
Image quality is poor
From 1 comment
The pictures are really shitty. Please use Pinterest rather than Google Images.
oakaz on HN
Caching needed to control Bing API costs
From 2 comments
I ran a very similar site a while back. The Bing API costs can get expensive quickly. You probably want to cache the results.
underwater on HNSuggestion: use CloudFlare to cache images at the HTTP layer so multiple requests for the same URL never even hit your app servers. CloudFlare + PaaS providers like…
tlrobinson on HN
Requests
Add size and other parameters
From 1 comment
Thats really cool. How bout letting me specify more params like size?
noonespecial on HN
Open source the code
From 1 comment
any chance you will opensource the code? or is it already up somewhere (github)
samirahmed on HN
Meme generation spinoff
From 1 comment
Looks like you're filtering NSFW words over to a picture of a pipe? An interesting spinoff would be memes. Something like http://mebe.co/goodnews/I_just_fixed_the_build.jpg and…
city41 on HN
Questions
Copyright of the images
From 2 comments
How are you dealing with the copyright of the images?
simonbrown on HNFair use.
iso8859-1 on HN
Meaning of the name mebe
From 1 comment
What does mebeco stand for?
bkyan on HN
Alternatives named
jpg.to
From 1 comment
seems a lot like jpg.to http://optimus_prime.jpg.to/
r4vik on HN
memeifier
From 1 comment
I actually just finished a project for super-simple URL based meme generation: http://memeifier.com/ Your Professor Farnsworth example:…
jkupferman on HN
placenoun and lorempixel
From 2 comments
http://placenoun.com/ too
subleq on HNAnd http://lorempixel.com/
amccloud on HN
speakthroughimages
From 1 comment
A similar service (actually a bit smarter) http://speakthroughimages.herokuapp.com/generate.jsp?query=[ your keyword] (without the square brackets)
vanwilder77 on HN