I’m building Explore.Fans, a search engine that lets users find visually similar
OnlyFans creators using face embeddings.
The interesting part wasn’t the ML itself, but combining vector search with
structured filters (price, location, tags) while keeping latency low and the
frontend fully SSR for SEO.
Built with InsightFace, vector search, and a FastAPI backend.
Image thumbnails are slow to load for me, my ADSL is not great, but many sites load better than that.
I collect ero images but find OnlyFans offputting and feel the same way about the images and text that get surfaced on your site, personally I wouldn't want to stick with it. That said, the UI is slick.
A text search for "cosplay" turned up 0% relevant images from my point of view, multiple searches I tried turned up the same girl in the #1 slot frequently so I think in terms of blending relevance vs popularity/quality you aren't emphasizing relevance. ("Cosplay" tag is just as bad, I only start to hit if I add another filter for an Asian country)
I did upload a pic of an S-rank cosplay model and did get other cosplayers so that seems to work.
I was hoping I could pick a girl from the search results and find similar girls but it wasn't clear how to do so.
I’m building Explore.Fans, a search engine that lets users find visually similar OnlyFans creators using face embeddings.
The interesting part wasn’t the ML itself, but combining vector search with structured filters (price, location, tags) while keeping latency low and the frontend fully SSR for SEO.
Built with InsightFace, vector search, and a FastAPI backend.
Image thumbnails are slow to load for me, my ADSL is not great, but many sites load better than that.
I collect ero images but find OnlyFans offputting and feel the same way about the images and text that get surfaced on your site, personally I wouldn't want to stick with it. That said, the UI is slick.
A text search for "cosplay" turned up 0% relevant images from my point of view, multiple searches I tried turned up the same girl in the #1 slot frequently so I think in terms of blending relevance vs popularity/quality you aren't emphasizing relevance. ("Cosplay" tag is just as bad, I only start to hit if I add another filter for an Asian country)
I did upload a pic of an S-rank cosplay model and did get other cosplayers so that seems to work.
I was hoping I could pick a girl from the search results and find similar girls but it wasn't clear how to do so.
I want to congratulate you for not using a throwaway account for this comment.
HN is very USA and prudish for it, it's refreshing to see substantive comments on topics like this without the usual throwaway greentext.
Thank you for your reply. I really appreciate it, will try to improve it ! thanks again