Company
Date Published
Feb. 9, 2021
Author
Rory Wilding
Word count
522
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Brad Dwyer, founder of Roboflow, a startup that helps developers integrate computer vision into applications, used Supabase to build Paint.wtf, a product that survived traffic from the front pages of Hacker News, Reddit, and Product Hunt. The team leveraged OpenAI's new CLIP model for their weekend project, which classifies images by converting image classification into a text similarity task. They built a leaderboard using Supabase to count documents in collections, enabling users to track their performance against others. Paint.wtf received significant attention and sustained coverage, with over 100K users submitting drawings within 24 hours.