PicPick
AI-powered photo curator using CLIP and face recognition
Details
- External ID
- 46270340
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- PicPick
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 15, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10400763358778627
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey HN! I built this after my wedding left me with 5,000 photos to sort through.The key insight: most photo sorting time is spent reviewing near-duplicates. Professional photographers shoot in bursts, so you get 10+ shots of the same moment.PicPick uses CLIP embeddings to cluster visually similar photos, then adds face recognition to keep groups coherent (so you don't mix up "bride with parents" and "bride with friends" just because they look similar).Tech stack: - CLIP for semantic similarity (not just perceptual hashing) - face_recognition (dlib) for person detection - DBSCAN clustering on combined features - FastAPI + vanilla JS for the UI - SQLite for everythingIt reduced my review set from 5,000 → ~1,000 clusters, which I then filtered down to 300 for the album in a few hours instead of days.The clustering parameters are tunable - tighter for professional shoots with many duplicates, looser for casual photos.Open to feedback! Especially around: 1. Better clustering algorithms (currently DBSCAN on CLIP embeddings + timestamps + face vectors) 2. UI improvements for rapid reviewing 3. Handling photos without faces (landscapes, food, etc.)Works entirely offline, no cloud uploads needed.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI avatar and portrait tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai photo curation using computer vision
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The project combines existing open-source ML models (CLIP embeddings and facial recognition libraries) with standard clustering algorithms (DBSCAN/k-means) in a Python or desktop UI.
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Competitors
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Launched 47 days after the earliest competitor.
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