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Re: Show HN: Daminik – An Open source digital asset manager

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Post by poolie » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 9:07 PM UTC

pixelmonkey wrote: post #31

Weirdly I know about this category of software from a prior life working at a major CMS company. So, "digital asset managers" (DAMs) are basically fancy versions of the WordPress media library: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/media-library-sc... Why might a fancy version be needed? Well, the basic media library bundled with WordPress just uploads files directly into a web server directory, and then serves…

What can i say, pixelmonkey! this!

It's funny that you mention WordPress, because that's one of the main reasons why we developed Daminik. Many of our customers use WordPress, most of them are from the publishing industry. All of them use some kind of DAM, either a local one or one in the cloud. Some of the tools also provide a WordPress plugin. However, what all of these tools currently do is copy the assets into the WordPress media library instead of taking the URL/File from the DAM/CDN. This creates a lot of duplicates that nobody can maintain.

One of the most important things on our roadmap is the development of a WordPress plugin to fix this problem. Will be ready soon.

Re: Show HN: Daminik – An Open source digital asset manager

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Post by 1oooqooq » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 2:21 AM UTC

ensignavenger wrote: post #29

I am looking for an Open Source DAM for my game dev assets. (If anyone has any suggestions?) This only supports images, not sound and 3d Models or other assets, right now. It does support tags. The built-in CDN may be helpful for web projects, though! Good luck on your project, the hosted version seems much more responsive than NextCloud. so it may be a great tool for simpler needs!

this comment brought flickr memories

Re: Show HN: Daminik – An Open source digital asset manager

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Post by 1oooqooq » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 2:24 AM UTC

corytheboyd wrote: post #40

Images are easy peasy DAM material. Unless you can handle other media types, this won’t be taken seriously, because that’s when things get hard. Real companies aren’t struggling to manage thousands of 10KB JPEG files, they are having issues with thousands of 2GB PSD files that they want to show up on their website as images. I work for a DAM, and have seen The Shit. “But don’t use 2GB PSD files” is NOT an acceptable…

good point. there's also the other extreme end of the spectrum, which hn has a participant: photoroom.

which is basically the disposable camera of DAM.

Re: Show HN: Daminik – An Open source digital asset manager

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Post by tithe » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 3:46 AM UTC

What's the difference betweeen a folder, a collection, and favorites? And perhaps more importantly, can I delete those categories and start with a blank slate?

Congratulations on the launch!

Re: Show HN: Daminik – An Open source digital asset manager

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Post by pacifika » Mon, Jul 15, 2024, 7:31 AM UTC

soulclap wrote: post #37

pacifika wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might be interested in Tachyon https://github.com/humanmade/tachyon-plugin , an image resizing service built to be used with Amazon S3 as the image backend, AWS Lambda (or any node.js server) to process images using sharp, and sits behind a CDN such as CloudFront or CloudFlare. Disclaimer: my employer (but I don’t work on the project).

Sounds interesting. Where has the main repo for Tachyon gone though? https://github.com/humanmade/tachyon says it has been disabled.

A copyright claim was made against us for the name. GH disabled the repo, someone's on it. Here's the wayback machine link: https://web.archive.org/web/20231130054737/https://github.co...