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

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Post by smt88 »

delusional wrote: post #13
nikolayasdf123 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$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.

I am pretty sure the guy spent more effort making it than was put into 2 of these bottle openers: https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/recycled-record-bottle...

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.

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

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Post by scosman »

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…

Storage is cheap. I suggest focusing on spending the time setting up tools that find and resurface the 10%. Photos widget on iOS, photos shuffle lockscreen on iOS, etc. I’m biased (I worked on those), but anything in that style tools is great.

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

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Post by SegmentTree »

Thanks for the showcase.

I have a question: Can your tool detect duplicates with lower resolution? A typical use case would be images received via chat apps, which are often downscaled to save bandwidth. If I have a higher quality version, I'd like to keep only the larger one.

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

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Post by nottorp »

theshrike79 wrote: post #11
mac-monet wrote: post #10

A 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?

Apple tried this, but The Internet got mad again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584856

And for good reason, since this way you'd be poking your nose into other people's photo collection...

It's easy to imagine merging photos of people in the same scenic spot, but how about the photos of those people in the same hotel room bed doing whatever? :)

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

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Post by nottorp »

scosman wrote: post #22
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…

Storage is cheap. I suggest focusing on spending the time setting up tools that find and resurface the 10%. Photos widget on iOS, photos shuffle lockscreen on iOS, etc. I’m biased (I worked on those), but anything in that style tools is great.

> Storage is cheap.

That's no good reason to fill it with 20 photos of the same butterfly.

And how will I even find the butterfly? It's lost within the 200 photos of the same hills.

Do not assume I ever pruned photos before downloading them off my phones and cameras, because I did not.

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

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Post by taormina »

smt88 wrote: post #21
delusional wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am pretty sure the guy spent more effort making it than was put into 2 of these bottle openers: https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/recycled-record-bottle...

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.

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

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Post by feiss »

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 situation here. Just thinking of printing an album of the last 3 years gives me chills. I recently learnt about "photo culling" software, which is what professional photographers use to skim through all the photo bursts they shoot and pick the best. I didn't try any yet, but you might like to google the term.

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

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Post by _Algernon_ »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #27

Scrolling on your page breaks after a few seconds, leading me to believe it is intentional or even malicious. Does not exactly suggest trustworthy software to me. Firefox 140.0.4

Disabling JS fixes it, so that pretty much confirms it is intentional.

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

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Post by sorenjan »

One feature that I'd like to see in general in these kinds of collection organizing programs is support for removable storage. Lets say I have photos and videos spread out on multiple external drives, being able to find a photo in the program and then see which device it's on would be very helpful. Obviously you'd only store some metadata about all files in the database, like CLIP embeddings, date, name, a small thumbnail, etc.
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