Semantic search engine for Studio Ghibli movie
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Hi HN! I built Ghibli Search, a semantic search engine for Studio Ghibli movie scenes (e.g. Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, etc.).Describe a dreamscape like "flying through clouds at sunset" or upload an image, and it finds visually similar scenes from the films.Live demo: https://ghibli-search.anini.workers.dev/Full Cloudflare stack: Workers, AI Search, R2, Workers AIOpen source: https://github.com/aninibread/ghibli-searchWould love feedback on the search quality and any ideas for improvements!
HN · launched Jan 21, 2026 · 46 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: multimedia and records search engines · 74 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Extracting movie frames, generating embeddings with an off-the-shelf multimodal model (like CLIP), and querying via a vector database/Cloudflare AI Search is a classic weekend AI project.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Cloudflare AI Search
Concerns raised: Lacks legal rights to distribute Ghibli media frames, Search relevance poor for specific character queries, Generic image descriptions missing character/name references, Decontextualizes Ghibli's creative studio culture philosophy
Feature requests: Multiple ranking steps to improve relevance, Movie-specific metadata for character identification, Expand domain beyond workers.dev
Competitors
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