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Show HN: Keeplea – photograph everything you want to remember

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Show HN: Keeplea – photograph everything you want to remember

#1
At some point I noticed how many photos I take just to remember something, to come back to it later, when I need it. The packaging of a product I liked, a notice on the door of some government place, small paper documents, screenshots of something that felt important at the time. Well, even the wiring inside the walls during a renovation, photographed "for the future". All of it lands in the photo gallery next to the "real" photos, and then you almost never come back to any of it, because finding one specific thing in that random stream is just not realistic.

Yes, modern mobile OSes categorize photos automatically and let you search the text on them. But the categorization is primitive, like "mountains", "documents", "screenshots", and the thing you're looking for isn't always written on the photo. The native photo gallery will never find me that photo of the wiring behind the kitchen wall. There's no text on it, and "wiring" is not a category.

So the idea was a mobile app where all these utility photos go, and I don't have to maintain them in any way - automatic categorization, with semantic search on top.

Give it a try and let me know what you think:

Website: https://keeplea.app Get the app: https://get.keeplea.app

So far it's all pretty hard. No users yet - an app like this has low "search" potential, nobody types this problem into a store search box. But I'll keep trying, as they say.

Under the hood: KMP, native UI, Firebase, Gemini, Firestore vector search.

P.S. Let me say it right away: this app wasn't vibecoded over the weekend, as people like to put it these days. Honestly, I hate the term "vibecoding". It downplays the weeks and months that go into thinking through the idea, the architecture, the experiments, the design, the marketing, etc. The fact that you use AI agents while building doesn't mean you slapped something together and spat it into production. Although, true, plenty of people nowadays do exactly that. Well, not me

Show HN: Keeplea – photograph everything you want to remember
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Re: Show HN: Keeplea – photograph everything you want to remember

#4
That seems like a fairly novel idea. I’m not sure if it uses AI or OCR to analyze the images, but the external recording of sensitive information—such as that found in PDFs—could raise privacy concerns. It will be important to address these concerns and reassure users.

Re: Show HN: Keeplea – photograph everything you want to remember

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That seems like a fairly novel idea. I’m not sure if it uses AI or OCR to analyze the images, but the external recording of sensitive information—such as that found in PDFs—could raise privacy concerns. It will be important to address these concerns and reassure users.

Thanks! It uses Gemini, so it's definitely not on-device processing. I tried it, the quality is far away from what I needed. Thanks for your concerns! I'm already addressing some, but I agree, it's the most important part here.

Re: Show HN: Keeplea – photograph everything you want to remember

#6

How do you handle user's privacy? what servers are my private pictures being uploaded to to be scanned? how do you handle your server costs? I find the idea to be convenient but the last thing I want is an AI sorting my dick pics for me.

Fair question :) Well, first of all, only the photos you explicitly select go to the app. No permissions given for the whole gallery. So you can just avoid uploading dick pics to Keeplea :)

What you (and only you) decide to upload, then goes to Cloud Storage and Gemini. So the only provider your photos are shared with is Google.

But the honest part is that the data is not end-to-end encrypted. In transit and at rest, yes, but I run the project, so technically I can look. I don't and I have special machinery around my processes so that I never do this unintentionally, but that's still a promise. Do you think this would be a blocker for potential app users? What can I do if the on-device processing is not an option?

About costs. It's subscriptions, nothing else. Free tier stops at 20 captures, Pro is $9.99/month (for US, different for other countries). Processing itself is very cheap (a small fraction of a cent per photo).

Thanks!