This really was a great achievement, have to confess to watching the stream of the last hour or so and it was clear what an achievement it was! Made me interested in what you guys actually do on a normal day...Member of the public, watching the business develop over the 24 hours
The technology
One of the reasons we were able to produce the site in such a short amount of time, was that we are Symfony developers. The framework allows us to rapidly put together database applications which means we can bring down costs dramatically for our clients.
The cleverest bit of the site is the colour analysis of the product images. We used the OpenCV library to remove the background colour and pick out the predominant colours in the image.
The results
We are now working closely with the lucky winners of the eBay auction to add features to the site and you can follow its progress via the Dr Hue blog.
