[HN Gopher] Show HN: Tingy - search videos with natural language...
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       Show HN: Tingy - search videos with natural language queries
        
       Author : axg11
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-09-13 18:22 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | rontoes wrote:
       | Interesting idea - I would like to try it out.
        
         | axg11 wrote:
         | Great! Please email support@tingy.video
        
       | axg11 wrote:
       | First off, I want to make the disclaimer that this project is
       | very much an MVP and the landing page/front end is quite ugly.
       | 
       | I'm sharing tingy - this is a service that allows you to upload a
       | video and query it using a text description. For each upload, you
       | can make two queries and they can be any text that you wish (in
       | English).
       | 
       | Here's an example: You have 4 hours worth of security footage.
       | During those 4 hours you know that someone stole a bike. You
       | could query the video for "person riding bike".
       | 
       | I'm looking for some test users - please reach out here if you
       | would like to trial tingy. I would be happy to set you up with a
       | free account.
        
         | grepfru_it wrote:
         | Very interesting. I do this with my security cameras right now
         | but mainly to find out who left poop in front of my house or
         | who left the trash can behind my garage door. The second use
         | case is much easier than the first since a lot of dogs walk
         | past my house, a lot of dogs poop in front of my house, but not
         | a lot of dogs walk by that leave poop behind (or sometimes the
         | poop is out of view).
         | 
         | Interesting idea nonetheless
        
           | axg11 wrote:
           | In this example you could query for "poop" and then look at
           | the resulting plot for a sustained period of time with high
           | poop probability? :)
        
         | gotostatement wrote:
         | I could see that there are some users who would want an ongoing
         | subscription, such as a security office who looked through
         | security videos on a regular basis to investigate thefts. But I
         | have to think that in a lot of cases there will be people who
         | just want to search through a video or two on a one-time basis
         | - why not a per-video, non-subscription pricing option?
        
           | axg11 wrote:
           | Interesting point, any idea at what level you would price
           | this?
        
       | chirau wrote:
       | Nice to see someone pursue this. I built something similar at a
       | hackathon in NYC a few years back and won. I remember the tricky
       | part was that in addition to uploading videos, I wanted people to
       | just use a URL, like a YouTube video or something and process
       | that. But the Vision API only worked with videos that were in
       | storage on a bucket or something. Spent the whole night building
       | a workaround.
        
       | XCSme wrote:
       | Allowing users to try a few searches before registering could
       | increase your sells. In its current form, this is not a valid
       | Show HN either, as you can't try the product without paying.
        
         | axg11 wrote:
         | Ah I didn't realise that was the rule - I will work on adding a
         | free trial
        
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