I embedded 10M StreetView images
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HN · launched Dec 25, 2025 · 14 upvotes (top 41%) · 0 views
Niche: computer vision software and models · 225 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -45% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Scraping, processing, and generating embeddings for 10 million Street View images requires substantial compute infrastructure, high API/proxy costs, and specialized vector indexing at scale.
What it would actually take: Requires a distributed data ingestion pipeline to query or scrape 10M panoramic images, a large GPU cluster running vision embedding models (e.g., CLIP or SigLIP), and a high-performance vector index (HNSW/Faiss/ScaNN). The browser UI requires custom WebGL/Three.js point cloud rendering with spatial level-of-detail (LOD) tiling to display millions of coordinates smoothly. Needs substantial cloud infrastructure funding, distributed data processing, and large-scale 3D graphics expertise.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Thinking Machines' Tinker API
Concerns raised: Error is quite high, often in the tens of thousands of km, Some images are upside-down, Model prone to overfitting
Feature requests: Ability to win at geoguesser, Distill expert knowledge (like Rainbolt's approach) into model
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 662 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #232 of 663 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 54 days after the earliest competitor.
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