Ashish Sikka·4d agoLeaving AWS Rekognition Cut This Photo Marketplace’s Face Search Bill by More Than Halfsellphotos.online paid about $3,500 a month for face search on AWS. Now they pay about $1,550, and guests find more of their photos.
Ashish Sikka·4d agoWhat a Photo Marketplace Learned Replacing AWS Rekognitionsellphotos.online’s face search bill went from $3,500 to $1,550 a month. How they moved, and the parts that were hard.
AIEngine·Nov 3face-api.js Alternative: Face Recognition in Node.jsIf you are looking for a face-api.js alternative, you are probably maintaining a project built on it. face-api.js made face recognition in…
Alexey Fedorchak·Nov 2Match faces with PHP (no python and no AI APIs)Matching faces on PHP looks like impossible task, but let’s imagine there is a composer package which allows you to build you own face…
AIEngine·Oct 31Detect Duplicate Accounts with a Face Search APIYour referral bonus is being farmed. One person opens ten accounts with ten email addresses, ten prepaid SIMs and a VPN, collects the…
Ashish·Oct 31The Best Face Recognition Library for Python in 2026 (and When to Use an API Instead)face_recognition, DeepFace, OpenCV and MediaPipe compared, with code for each
Ashish·Oct 31Free Face Recognition APIs in 2026: What You Actually Get on Each Free TierFree tiers, open-source servers and local libraries, with the limits that bite first
Ashish·Oct 31Selfie photo search for a 3,000-photo wedding: the pipeline, the cost, and what goes wrongThe code is short. The decisions around it are what make guests trust the results.
Ashish·Oct 31Fixing “There are no faces in the image” in Rekognition SearchFacesByImageSix causes, one diagnostic call, and the image prep that prevents most of them.
Ashish·Oct 31Rekognition ProvisionedThroughputExceededException: TPS limits and backoff that holds upThe quotas are lower than most people assume. Here’s how to size a backfill around them.
