Hi HN,

I built Smart Meme Search to solve a small but very real personal problem.

Over the years I saved thousands of memes from X and Telegram. I often remembered what a meme meant or the situation it fit, but not any visible text or filename — so finding the right meme at the right moment was almost impossible.

This app indexes your local meme collection using:

CLIP for semantic image understanding

OCR for embedded text

a local ONNX-based inference pipeline (CPU-only)

You can search memes by intent or meaning (e.g. “awkward silence”, “overconfident but wrong”) and get relevant results instantly.

Everything runs locally; no images are uploaded anywhere.

I learned a lot building this, especially around native dependencies, model packaging, and deployment on Windows. Happy to answer technical questions or hear feedback.

Free version (With adds): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NLLW6HFJ3VN

Thanks for reading.