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Superior Photo Hunting

Compfight

Compfight acknowledged that user generated tags make for superior photo hunting. Our team created a powerful search engine that distills flickr into a massively searchable photo repository. Sporting deceptively simple user interaction methods, the site allows art directors, students, and educators to rapidly comb flickr for relevant content at a clip of 200,000 searches per day. After 5 years, 6 Million unique visitors, and over 1 Billion pageviews, Compfight was acquired in January 2012. The happy new owners will be stewarding the site far into the future.

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Designing for Speed

We started with a very simple mandate. Get our audience the best images on the web, in the fastest way possible. All design decisions were made with speed in mind, from the way images fade-in, to the number of images loaded on a given page.


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Selecting the Right Technology

It requires an abundance of resources to keep Compfight speedy with over a million server requests per day. At the time of the site’s inception, ruby on rails was in its infancy. Bleeding-edge technology, like rails, was extremely challenging to manage in an economical production environment. By selecting the right technology upfront, Compfight has scaled with modest effort over 5 years of dramatic growth.