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Infinite canvas product search and decision making

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Hi HN,We launched Canvas, an AI-powered visual workspace for furniture shopping: onton.com/surfaces. It's early, and we're trying to figure out if we're actually solving a real problem or just our own.Canvas lets you drag products from our 3M+ item catalog, upload inspiration images that auto-link to shoppable products, and generate AI room renderings. Basically trying to consolidate the nightmare of furniture shopping (Pinterest + screenshots + 15 browser tabs) into one place. The average person spends 79 days researching furniture across disconnected platforms. When I renovated my home, I had the same experience – inspiration everywhere, no way to see it all together or actually make purchase decisions.The interesting parts are probably the search and image generation systems feeding the canvas rather than the canvas itself. Making it infinitely scalable would be straightforward but the hard problems are upstream (product matching, AI rendering quality, search relevance across millions of items).Would love feedback if you try it, especially around whether this consolidation actually matters or if there are better ways to solve this problem.

HN · launched Nov 14, 2025 · 8 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views

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Category and tags

  • Retail & commerce
  • Search & retrieval
  • B2C
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Partial The infinite canvas workspace UI is vibe-codeable, but scraping, indexing, vectorizing, and continuously maintaining a 3M+ furniture product catalog with visual similarity search is non-trivial.

What it would actually take: The stack pairs a canvas frontend (e.g., Fabric.js, PixiJS, or React Flow) with a backend indexing millions of SKUs using vector search (Qdrant/Milvus) powered by multimodal vision models (like CLIP or SigLIP). The core difficulty is the data engineering pipeline: scraping, deduplicating, standardizing metadata, and keeping pricing/inventory fresh across hundreds of retailers. It requires multi-modal ML engineering and distributed web scrapers running at scale.

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Launched 12 days after the earliest competitor.

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