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Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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Post by rambambram »

nikolayasdf123 wrote: post #9
mcvanhassel wrote: post #2

Hey HN! After drowning in 50,000+ unorganized photos across multiple devices and much frustration, I built FlipFocus Photo Organizer to solve my own problem. What it does: * Smart organization - Sorts by date/device/EXIF automatically * Duplicate detection - Finds duplicates even with different filenames * 100% offline - Your photos never leave your device * Cross-platform - macOS & Windows Why I built it: A lot of p…

$25 for this app is quite expensive. not sure how much I would pay for it. I would consider this only if it was completely free, open-source, and self-deployed. so would use it only at $0.

> not sure how much I would pay for it

I am sure how much you'd pay for it!

Zero. Nada. None. Is what you want to pay for it. That's what you just told us in your last sentence.

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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Post by jeroenhd »

nikolayasdf123 wrote: post #8
Brajeshwar wrote: post #5

First, is it just me, or can I not scroll your website (tried different browsers), though I can click the links to hop around. Second, I’d love this to be like Obsidian. Takes care of the organization without dumping it in a local database with metadata. As part of my digital chores, I back up and export a copy of each month’s photos from Apple Photos. I want to organize them decoupled from Apple’s App. Will “Photo O…

+1. cannot scroll in Firefox

Scrolling works fine in Firefox here. However, there's a consent dialog in front of the website content that some unsophisticated ad blockers will try to hide by making it invisible (without restoring scrolling capabilities), which can cause problems.

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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Post by jeroenhd »

reassess_blind wrote: post #19

Can’t scroll on your website on Brave iOS 18.

Brave's ad blocker tries to hide a consent popup but fails, leaving an unusable website. That's a bug in Brave, I've already reported it but the more the merrier.

This stuff is why I don't like it when tools ship cosmetic filters with their ad blockers by default, because the website looks broken when the issue is actually Brave (and various other ad blockers) messing up.

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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Post by jeroenhd »

tootyskooty wrote: post #36

I've always wanted a sort of "semantic image store" that I can dump all my photos into and then search for content in English or by similarity metrics. Have you played around with anything like that? Seems like a locally running CLIP model could do the job.

It's not exactly plain English, but tools like Photoprism run tagging models on their servers so you can search your pictures.

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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Post by nottorp »

brightbeige wrote: post #18
nottorp wrote: post #16

I suppose this one is great for someone who has 50000 photos they want to keep! Can anyone recommend a tool like the old old acdsee? Just browse random folders, display a preview and be able to delete photos? Because my problem is a photo library where I should probably delete 90% of it. But all those advanced photo managers with functions for pros (or even Apple Photos, which I gave up on) make this particular opera…

Same. But I don’t even care to delete the 90%, because storage is cheap. How about a tool to auto-hide them, thus making the 10% easily viewable.

> How about a tool to auto-hide them, thus making the 10% easily viewable.

Only problem is the tool would need to read my mind to decide which 10% are worth viewing.

Might as well do a manual delete pass at that point...

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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Post by nottorp »

xnx wrote: post #20
nottorp wrote: post #16

I suppose this one is great for someone who has 50000 photos they want to keep! Can anyone recommend a tool like the old old acdsee? Just browse random folders, display a preview and be able to delete photos? Because my problem is a photo library where I should probably delete 90% of it. But all those advanced photo managers with functions for pros (or even Apple Photos, which I gave up on) make this particular opera…

IrfanView

Ohhh you don't say ... IrfanView is listed as "working great" in crossover for mac...

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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Post by dole »

shellfishgene wrote: post #32
nottorp wrote: post #16

I suppose this one is great for someone who has 50000 photos they want to keep! Can anyone recommend a tool like the old old acdsee? Just browse random folders, display a preview and be able to delete photos? Because my problem is a photo library where I should probably delete 90% of it. But all those advanced photo managers with functions for pros (or even Apple Photos, which I gave up on) make this particular opera…

https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

FastStone’s even better than ACDSee used to be. Small footprint, free, portable, wouldn’t be surprised if ACDSee was the inspiration for it.

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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Post by smt88 »

taormina wrote: post #26
smt88 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I can tell so far, its functionality isn't much beyond a a short script that Claude could generate for me in 30 seconds or I could write myself in 20 minutes.

If you trust Claude for this, you deserve to accidentally nuke every picture you’ve ever owned.

I use Claude to write short, isolated scripts, like something to sort photos based on EXIF data, but I never just trust anything it does. I read and debug every line.

I'd never let a junior dev use one of these models, but I've been coding for 30 years and know how to catch mistakes. It saves a huge amount of time.

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