Semantic search engine for Studio Ghibli movie
Details
- External ID
- 46705830
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Semantic search engine for Studio Ghibli movie
- Website domain
- workers.dev
- Launched
- Jan. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 46
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7832674571805006
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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!
Enrichment
- Theme
- media discovery and streaming tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- semantic search for studio ghibli films
- Manually corrected
- False
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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Attention rank: #5 of 20 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
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- No other launches for this product.