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Products that do what DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit) does
I was frustrated with photo sharing sites. Apple's iCloud shared albums take 20+ seconds to load, and everything else comes with ads, cumbersome UIs, or social media distractions. I just want to share photos with friends and family: fast, mobile-friendly, distraction-free. So I built DD Photos. You export photos from whatever you already use (Lightroom, Apple Photos, etc.) into folders, run `photogen` (a Go CLI) to resize them to WebP and generate JSON indexes, then deploy the SvelteKit static site anywhere that serves files. Apache, S3, whatever. No server-side code, no database. Built over…
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Memories is a FOSS Google Photos alternative that you can self-host (it runs as a Nextcloud plugin). Website: https://memories.gallery/ GitHub: https://github.com/pulsejet/memories Demo Server: https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/ (demo runs in San Francisco on a free-tier cloud vm) Memories has been built ground-up for high performance and is extremely fast when configured correctly. In our testing environment, it can load a timeline view with 100k photos in under 500ms, including query and rendering time! Some features to…
2024 · memories.gallery
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Hi, I'm a developer and first time i shipped the real product after observing the startups and indie hackers community for years. I had made so many useless apps [you should check my website https://ansh.life], but this time I built a very useful product that has a number of super easy-to-use tools in one app for video, music, and photo files. Users can compress, convert, resize, and do so much more with easy-to-use tools. Background: I developed a frame-by-frame video cropper to upload cropped landscape videos to Instagram Reels. However, it required FFmpeg, and as a noob video…
2025 · pimosa.app
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Hey HN! My friend and I love taking pictures on our phones, and we were looking for a super simple way to share them with the world. Google Photos albums are nice, but the result isn't slick enough and lacks customization options (embed, custom domain). That's why we built myphotos.site - a micro SaaS that allows anyone to create a slick, minimal gallery website from Google Photos. Galleries can be iframe-embedded for those looking for full customization. One thing we haven't solved yet - many Google Photos users (myself included) do not have images pre-organized in albums, so the fact that…
2024 · myphotos.site
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Hi HN - this is a little side project I threw together. Some implementation details: image processing is all done with headless GIMP (running inside a Docker container) through its built-in Python API. It's _very_ slow (about 50 seconds/image), and currently it processes exactly one image at a time. The website is built with NextJS; payments are processed by Stripe. I've had the best results with pictures of houses, although certain photos of people or nature can look neat, too. (For example: https://brushify.art/s/ruYmQWk, original photo from…
2022 · brushify.art
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3D-to-photo is an open source tool for Generative AI product photography, that uses 3D models to allow fine camera angle control in generated images. If you have 3D models created using the iOS 3D scanner you can upload them directly on to 3D-to-photo and describe the scene you want to create. For example: "on a city side walk" "near a lake, overlooking the water" Then click "generate" to get the final images. The tech stack behind 3D-to-photo: Handling 3d models on the web: @threejs Hosting the diffusion model: @replicate 3D scanning apps: shopify,Polycam3D or LumaLabsAI
2023 · github.com
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Made a small tool to publish albums from Apple Photos online. The goal is to: 1) view photos in different ways: timeline, grid etc 2) allow people to bring their own domain 3) allow people to embed those photos in other places online Basically I'm trying to make apple photos web friendly. It works in a very simple way. Your photos are in your iCloud, but you share specific albums that you want to make public.
2023 · public.photos
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Hi all, about a month ago my wife was complaining about how annoying all of the photo sharing services were. Either the UI was overly complicated or it would ask people to register for the service before they could view the photos, etc. So I decided to build something dead-simple that she could use. There are no frills. You just create an album and email it around. The link goes directly to the photos. It's not fancy at all (very utilitarian), but she appreciates it, so I thought I'd launch it as a full service and share it with people. It's called SimpleNeat…
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I made an image sharing application to compete with Imgur. Chances are it's not going to take over Imgur any time soon, so I figured I'd open source it. Stack: * Symfony w/ PHP 5.5 * Postgres 9.2 * Redis 2.8 * Ruby 2.0 (Capistrano) * Vagrant It's a fairly basic Symfony application but also makes use of a lot of Symfony components. It's sufficiently complex enough that you can probably learn a decent amount from it if you want to start playing around with Symfony. It has a few tests, uses Resque, uses the Symfony service container, and integrates with Amazon S3. Check it out, would love…
2013
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Hi, Firstly, the link to the tool - https://github.com/DrRoach/DynamicImage I created a dynamic image sizing tool that allows images of any size to be generated on the fly. It's aims are as follows: a) Allow users of sites to upload images of any size without the site owner having to worry about their dimensions or having to resize them. b) Reduce load times for sites as images can be stored on their own dedicated server and be served in milliseconds. I'd love to hear some feedback as to what you think and whether you'd consider using this tool and if not, why not? All…
2017
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So I'm a junior Go dev and I made a small site that allows me to share images with someone privately and securely, and give me control over how many times the private link can be shared and how long the image will be accessible for. There are similar services to this one, but they are either convoluted with ads, or require sign-up, or expect you to fill out a survey or something. picburn is small, safe, and has no interest (nor the code or the server space) for storing your uploads. give it a try if it fits your usecase and let me know what you think. Note: there was a typo in the url
Aug 2026 · picburn.xyz
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Hi, this is the first app in a while (probably 10 years) that I submitted to AppStore. I've done this app in 3 weeks, so there are a lot to be polished. The technology that enables this I discussed in depth in an accompanied blog post: https://liuliu.me/eyes/stretch-iphone-to-its-limit-a-2gib-mo... Some parts of it (or major parts) is also available at https://github.com/liuliu/swift-diffusion. I plan to port more stuff back to swift-diffusion and make a CLI tool out of it (it is a bit more work than the app because I need to consider CUDA…
2022 · draw.nnc.ai
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I made a simple site that allows you to upload files. It requires no sign up and 100% free. The biggest advantage is that it returns you the direct URL to your file. So you can use it to store images for MD-based forum posts. Or put in your site's . I use the Cloudflare R2 storage which offers zero egress fees. So I pay $0 of transfer costs. I added a simple anti-nsfw files check and a simple anti-malware check. Please do not try to break it. Thanks! (>‿◠)
2024 · uploadfile.click
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Every day, I send a lot of screenshots. The default app on Mac is useless. I have to do so many steps: take a screenshot, save it, annotate it, save it as an image, then send it as an image in chats. It takes me a few minutes. But it should take just a few seconds. My second use case is sending feedback to my AI agents, and I’ve found they make much better edits when I provide comments and annotations on the screenshot. So I built this app. It lets me instantly capture screenshots, annotate them, and share them in one click. The same goes for any agent. It can do everything the native macOS…
7d ago · seenshot.app
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