About 9 months ago I wrote a search engine based on Torch, OpenCV, a custom NLP (thanks word2vec) and Elasticsearch to quickly find adult videos based on linguistic descriptions of graphical content rather than the textual description on a $20 bet. Eventually after demoing it to some people for fun, (to my surprise) I received an acquisition offer a few weeks ago from a certain product search site after it was accidentally discovered that the model could be used to find more relevant products based on their images. Needless to say I was surprised to see this on the front page of HN and wonder how long they've been working on this too!
Can you go into any more details on the product you built and the acquisition? It sounds like a pretty unique success story, I'm sure others would like to hear more about it too.
Yeah sure! I'll ask my advisor what I can and can't say and put it up on my blog and submit it to HN