Whenever I see someone wearing a cool hat or jacket, I always wonder where people find this stuff. So, I started following a guy on instagram who finds hoodies when he's tagged on a post of someone wearing a hoodie. He posts cool content, but obviously he can't find things that I want when I'm just going through my day.
So, I set off to find out how to find clothes.
The process typically went like this:
- Screenshot the picture. If it's on my phone, screenshot it and and send it to myself so I can access it on my computer..
- Upload the picture to Google Lens
- Search
This was a great method but had one major flaw: it was rarely accurate when searching for the clothes.
The issue I found was that Google searches for each pixel in the image meaning that if someone is wearing a cool outfit in the middle of the woods and I want to find what shoes they're wearing, there's no way that it would be able to find them.
So, I started looking for a solution. Luckily, it was around this time that a new computer vision model came out which can detect objects in an image and cut them out. Perfect! I tested it out with an image that google lens got wrong and the model was able to cut out the hat in the image, I then saved the new cut out image and used that to search google lens. Perfecto! I found the hat.
I started using this process like crazy: every cool piece of clothing I saw, I would screen shot it, cut out the article of clothing, and search it. It worked like a charm!
After a while, I got annoyed with this process and decided to make it into an app so I can easily do it. After some time, I'm happy to announce the FindClothes app.
This app allows you to select an image from your camera roll, select an article of clothing in the image, and simply press 'search' to find the piece of clothing on the web. You don't have to sign up or pay and we don't take any of your data. This is just a cool, free way for anyone to be able to search for clothes from an image easily and accurately. I'm able to make it free thanks to the great people at SerpAPI for giving a broke college kid free credits.
From my research, this app outperforms every similar app out there, even google!
So, the next time you see a cool hoodie, dress, purse, hat... try out the FindClothes app!
Keep in mind that the app is currently the worst it will ever be and I'm constantly working on making it better.
Please Contact Me with anything and everything wrong with it so I can fix the issues. The more issues I can find, the better!
Thanks for reading this short article, and check out the app here.