SearchImage

An image discovery experience backed by full-text search, asynchronous AI tagging, and social interactions.

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DISCOVER / NATURE

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AI-assisted discovery

The problem

Image discovery needs more than file storage: meaningful search, relevant results, and background enrichment must work alongside interactive social features.

The engineering approach

Store image assets in Cloudinary, use PostgreSQL full-text search and ranking functions for discovery, and process AI-assisted image tagging asynchronously through Kafka.

What’s inside

• Image uploads and cloud storage
• PostgreSQL full-text search and relevance ranking
• Asynchronous AI-assisted tagging
• Kafka background processing
• Likes, comments, saved images, and following
• Authentication and backend API design

Challenges & trade-offs

• Database-native search keeps search logic close to application data; relevance depends on thoughtful indexing and ranking.
• Background tagging keeps uploads independent of enrichment, but tags may not be available immediately.