In a nutshell, I've got 20 years of digital photos and videos, spread over tens of hard drives, CDRs, crashed laptops and servers, and takeouts from failed photo services.
Nothing I tried could sweep everything into one neat and deduped pile.
Nothing I tried scaled up to several hundred thousand files, with cross-platform support (to minimize vendor lock-in).
And nothing I tried had a UX that made browsing that large of a library be delightful and serendipitous.
So I'm making it.
I've currently got a build for Mac, Windows 10, and Ubuntu desktop. I've got a preliminary snap and docker image, and look forward to trying it out on a raspberry pi 4 soon.
I'm looking for more beta testers, if this sounds interesting and you'd be willing to share feedback! Email signups are in the above link.
This sounds pretty cool but tbh, if I'm willing to try out a beta product with all my images (and the risk of losing them due to some bug or any other risk) and provide feedback, I'd like to have a bigger carrot than just using the product for free in beta only :)
Fair enough. I've suffered from so many bugs in commercial software that I made some design decisions at the beginning of the project, in an effort to avoid more egregious faults.
TL:DR; see https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/
In a nutshell, I've got 20 years of digital photos and videos, spread over tens of hard drives, CDRs, crashed laptops and servers, and takeouts from failed photo services.
Nothing I tried could sweep everything into one neat and deduped pile.
Nothing I tried scaled up to several hundred thousand files, with cross-platform support (to minimize vendor lock-in).
And nothing I tried had a UX that made browsing that large of a library be delightful and serendipitous.
So I'm making it.
I've currently got a build for Mac, Windows 10, and Ubuntu desktop. I've got a preliminary snap and docker image, and look forward to trying it out on a raspberry pi 4 soon.
I'm looking for more beta testers, if this sounds interesting and you'd be willing to share feedback! Email signups are in the above link.