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by reality_hacker 3259 days ago
How are you planning to pay for webscale computational resources?..
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Good question. Right now I am using AWS spot instances + credits bought for Bitcoin. This makes the thing maybe 70 times cheaper than on-demand instances paid normally.

But when I go above several billions of images, I'll need some investment for sure :-)

Tineye indexed about 20 billions of images, and my estimates show that I should be fine with my own resources up to 1B. This is good enough to improve and test the tech