Instant Emoji

Hi folks,

I just shipped a new version of Instant Emoji 🚀

It comes with dedicated emoji pages for the food category, for instance, watermelon emoji 🍉, lemon emoji 🍋 or pineapple emoji 🍍!

Adding these pages also helps improving the SEO of the website.

Stay tuned, more to come! 📻

Hi folks,

I just shipped a new version of Instant Emoji 🚀

It comes with a navigation to new categories pages to easily access emojis by themes: animals emoji, flags emoji, and more!

Adding these pages also helps improving the SEO of the website ( it was only made of a single page 😅).

Stay tuned, more to come! 📻

Hi folks,

I just shipped a new version of Instant Emoji 🚀

This release brings the support of skin-tones for emojis as specified by the Unicode Consortium.

I also improved my data-set and fine tuned the search settings to continue to increase the search relevancy.

You can test the new version here https://instantemoji.nidup.io/

Stay tuned, more to come! 📻

Hi folks,

I just shipped a new version of Instant Emoji! 🚀

This weekend, I introduced the search of emoji in different languages, starting with French and Spanish in addition to English.

I had the opportunity to look at various translations systems to translate my data set.

I discovered translate-shell which provides an interesting wrapper to Google translate, Bing or Yandex (cf https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell).

Results are pretty good, you can now search emoji in English, French, and Spanish 🇬🇧+🇫🇷+🇪🇸= 🔍⚡

You can test the new version here https://instantemoji.nidup.io/

Next step will be to continue to improve the data-set and to fine tune the search engine settings to increase the relevancy.

Hi folks,

Last weekend, I came up with the 💡 that I spend too much time searching for the perfect emoji.

I use them a lot, in various contents and applications and the search feature, when it exists, is often poor and frustrating because super slow.

I gave myself the challenge to ship the fastest emoji search engine I could build. Which also answers another topic of my todo list which is to re-bench existing open source search engines. I gave me the constraint to build it in a couple of days, at max. 💪

My goal is to make the search as fast and simple as possible, mobile and web friendly, and usable with only the keyboard when working on a computer. (yes, let's avoid to use a mouse when we can).

I spent last Sunday on the first prototype and I did today the polish and packaging (bank holiday in France 💃).

It finally took me a dozen of hours to ship, here is the first version https://instantemoji.nidup.io/

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Thank you! 🙏