Show HN: I created a reverse search engine to find the source of anime clips.

[Mrvolcano]

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.

[esdf]

For reference another site that does this with images is https://trace.moe/

[KomoD]

Looks like this site just uses trace.moe, the video link it outputs is at "api.trace.moe"

[Mrvolcano]

I actually used https://trace.moe/ api for this website.

[tetris11]

Mmm. I showed it Frieren and it gave me Nanbaka. The scene sure looks a lot like her, but it wasn't her

[Mrvolcano]

It'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]

Thanks for trying it.

[anigbrowl]

It'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.

[Mrvolcano]

Alright fixed it. For some reason the state of one of my component wasn't updating but it's fixed now

[anigbrowl]

Might work even better as a browser extension.

[absoluteunit1]

> “ 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” ?

[hollow-moe]

Seems 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]

Yes, 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]

Guys! I made a search engine! Hey it just uses a Google search API.. Yep!

[no-dr-onboard]

Wonder what corpus this was trained on or what it sources from.

[Mrvolcano]

I use the trace.moe free api for this.

[RockRobotRock]

A lot of nyaa.si torrents

[yieldcrv]

I use LLM’s for product and domain names

see if you can get inspiration from those things