DD Photos
open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit)
Details
- External ID
- 47322838
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- DD Photos
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 71
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8769987699876999
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I was frustrated with photo sharing sites. Apple's iCloud shared albums take 20+ seconds to load, and everything else comes with ads, cumbersome UIs, or social media distractions. I just want to share photos with friends and family: fast, mobile-friendly, distraction-free.So I built DD Photos. You export photos from whatever you already use (Lightroom, Apple Photos, etc.) into folders, run `photogen` (a Go CLI) to resize them to WebP and generate JSON indexes, then deploy the SvelteKit static site anywhere that serves files. Apache, S3, whatever. No server-side code, no database.Built over several weeks with heavy use of Claude Code, which I found genuinely useful for this kind of full-stack project spanning Go, SvelteKit/TypeScript, Apache config, Docker, and Playwright tests. Happy to discuss that experience too.Live example: https://photos.donohoe.info Repo: https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddphotos
Enrichment
- Theme
- Instagram and short-form video utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- static site generator for photo albums
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard static album generator and web viewer built with Go and SvelteKit, extracting EXIF data, resizing images, and rendering a responsive frontend.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: LightGalleryJS + Cloudflare Pages, Hugo, mood.site, fgallery, ThumbsUp
Concerns raised: Performance with larger datasets or longer sessions, SEO implications of dynamic client-side routing for photo permalinks
Feature requests: Native Mac, Windows, and Linux desktop application, Album and photo captions (easier than current workarounds)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 47 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 48 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 108 days after the earliest competitor.
- Thumbrella · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Raza Photos · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang · hn · 2026-08-04 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- SplatHash · hn · 2026-02-28 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Mail Memories · hn · 2026-07-02 · 103 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- PicWhisper · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- PhotoView.io · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Free, Fast Screenshot App for macOS with One-Click Screenshot Sharing · hn · 2026-08-31 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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- No other launches for this product.
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