Otherwise, this idea is interesting and probably generalizable to other applications. Maybe it's not crystal clear to me, but what are the advantages of your service over existing solutions such as Nimbo and Spotty? FWIW it might be worthwhile adding this to your website.
Thanks for the info on markets. What made you consider fine-tuning further on your own data? Was CLIP not sufficiently good enough to test the market?
FWIW I recall having seen something similar with Google Cloud's Video Intelligence API (https://towardsdatascience.com/building-an-ai-powered-search...). Building something generic would make it especially hard to get right, especially if your users want high precision-recall from their search results.
Re: licensing, the world of startups is somewhat of a wild-west these days with folks offering pre-trained models as-a-service without really thinking about the licensing implications (both on the dataset and model front). Huggingface is a classic example, and they seem to suggest that it's perfectly OK to fine-tune and use commercially (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/3357#issu...), but I'm not certain that their lawyers would put it the same way.
Interesting idea. As others have suggested it would really help if you have an accompanying video to support the claims.
A few thoughts/questions here:
1. What markets and use-cases were you thinking of when building out this MVP? The applications could be broad enough, but it seems like you expect CLIP to handle bespoke query results and hope that they return a result that is relevant. Also what might be interesting to test if you search for something that doesn't exist in the video, can you handle that well-enough (assuming it's just a simple threshold you're picking to identify relevant search results)?
2. Licensing is something that has always piqued my curiosity when it comes to ML-based apps. Do you have a sense of the commercial-use for models such as CLIP, especially when the datasets that they were probably trained on were not permitted for commercial-use? This also applies to the raw video data uploaded by the user.
Otherwise, this idea is interesting and probably generalizable to other applications. Maybe it's not crystal clear to me, but what are the advantages of your service over existing solutions such as Nimbo and Spotty? FWIW it might be worthwhile adding this to your website.
Good luck!