Show HN: I Made a Clothing Database

danielchavez 5 years ago |

As someone who loves fashion and clothing, I wanted a place (that wasn't a marketplace for once) where I could look at clothes and keep track of stuff that I wanted and owned. The big dream is to have any piece of clothing that exists in the database. Feel free to submit items!

labratmatt 5 years ago | |

Yes! This cool. How do you populate the DB with the clothing text and images?

danielchavez 5 years ago | | |

With user submitted (basically my friends and I so far) clothing info and images from other websites. Also an initial webscrape helped us with some initial DB population.

aldamiz 5 years ago |

Good job! We built something in the space, discussed it in detail here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21703297

danielchavez 5 years ago | |

Wow, your product looks incredible, I will take a closer look, would love to talk about your experience in the space if you're up for it.

aldamiz 5 years ago | | |

Anytime:)

abc-xyz 5 years ago |

Would be great if it was possible to filter based on the clothes origin. I believe this could appeal to many users, for instance, r/AvoidChineseProducts (https://old.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/) has been growing a lot lately.

I of course understand that it would be difficult and time consuming to collect this information, however, India recently forced companies, including Amazon, to display country of origin, so might be able to scrape the information from their sites.

danielchavez 5 years ago | |

Thats a fantastic idea, and yes my goal is to be as descriptive as possible with every item, including country of origin, it just amounts to me putting in the work to do research on every item, Im willing to do it and I hope it can be useful to more users soon!

Winterflow3r 5 years ago |

This is really cool! I'd love to see this become mainstream with second-hand and slow fashion communities :) Like where people could remix looks and then publish them, a bit like polyvore was once a long time ago.

danielchavez 5 years ago | |

whoa thats a great idea, I'm not familiar with the term slow fashion, what does that entail?

RobertKerans 5 years ago | | |

Opposite of fast fashion (rapidly created clothing based off catwalk trend mass produced in vast amounts, normally in very poor working conditions, see Primark, H&M, Zara, GAP, Uniqlo, TopShop etc). Cheap, generally fairly low quality, aim is to encourage people to buy more and discard their "old" clothes.

So slow fashion aims to be the opposite, to slow consumerism (sustainable working conditions, materials, emphasis on locality where possible, etc). Obviously more expensive as new clothes removes the mass production [sweatshop] element and uses higher quality materials that won't fail as quickly. As sibling comment says second hand clothes are major part of this

mc32 5 years ago | | |

I imagine it has to do with second hand clothing stores/goodwill, but I could be wrong.

danielchavez 5 years ago | | |

Oh I see, well I definitely see the value in those spaces, Im kind of interested in the idea of archiving anything thats out there so that maybe people can realize all the cool clothes thats already been produced rather than looking to the new stuff thats coming out.

Winterflow3r 5 years ago | | |

I'm also super interested in visual search - so it might be cool to add a kind of visual search engine to your site where you could upload a pic and it would search your collection for a similar outfit.

babycake 5 years ago |

How much do you pay in storage costs for storing all those photos? What about the bandwidth costs?

danielchavez 5 years ago | |

We're hosting the photos on S3 currently, only around 30K photos currently and the cost of S3 is dependent on how frequently they are accessed (how often users load a specific photo). If I recall correctly our S3 bill last month was around 3 dollars but we don't have very many users. I'm sure its not scalable if we had tons of photos and tons of users but I think I'm just crossing that bridge if I ever get there

rasz 5 years ago | |

Better question is what is the source and license of those photos? :)

bynormous 5 years ago |

FYI the images aren't loading on your site, neat idea though!

quickthrower2 5 years ago |

“Pinterest for attire”

chadlavi 5 years ago |

so like pinterest, but specifically for clothes?

danielchavez 5 years ago | |

Pretty much, except from my experience Pinterest focuses on the image and maybe its source rather than the actual item of clothing and features of that item.

rasz 5 years ago |

No, you made a registration page.