Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
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Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
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Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
#2Hey 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 photo organizers either require cloud (privacy concerns) or are manual/tedious. I wanted something that respects privacy while being intelligent enough to handle years of photo chaos.
Tech stack: Built with Electron, Node.js and Angular. Price: €19.99 one-time purchase (no subscriptions)
The privacy-first approach means everything runs locally, no internet required after download. It helped me create oversight of years of digital photos and save me hours of work I otherwise had to spend manually organizing photos.
Would love your feedback, especially from fellow digital hoarders!
Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
#3Hey 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…
How does it detect duplicates? Hashing or something else?
Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
#4Hey 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…
Yay! I'm in the middle of building something like this myself, I guess I'll give it a try ..
Oh, wait:
>Tech stack: Built with Electron, Node.js and Angular. Price: €19.99 one-time purchase (no subscriptions)
.. never mind. :(
No trial period? Using Node.js to touch all my files? Electron: doesn't scale - I have 500,000 photo's to process - think the DOM can handle that? Javascript for such an app? Bummer.
Well, if there's ever a way to try it out, I'll give it a chance, but .. out of the gate .. there's a lot swinging against it. I'll go back to my own Photo organizer app, meanwhile, written in cross-platform C++ and designed to be multithreaded and high-performance, alas .. but I wish you all the best, anyway.
Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
#5First, 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 Organizer” do that? The idea is that any Picture Viewer in the future should just be able to browse the folders and show me around, organized into whatever organization pattern I do now.
Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
#6First, 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…
> First, is it just me, or can I not scroll your website (tried different browsers), though I can click the links to hop around.
It is the same for me. Looks like there is an `overflow:hidden` style applied to the body for some reason
Edit: Tried a different browser, there is a cookie popup that was getting blocked. I think that is blocking the scroll
Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
#7First, 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…
> First, is it just me, or can I not scroll your website (tried different browsers), though I can click the links to hop around.
His website got big cookie popup, and adblocker remove it. Leave us unscrollable site.
Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
#8First, 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
Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
#9Hey 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.
Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
#10A bit off-topic, but the point on duplicate detection reminded me of a thought I've had while taking photos on trips, in a swarm of other people doing the same. I've always wondered how much of the ICloud's storage is taken up by duplicate photos across everyone's phones. How many petabyte would this be? Imagine swapping one person out for another, in the same exact location in an image. How many then?