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DD Photos

open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit)

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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

HN · launched Mar 10, 2026 · 71 upvotes (top 12%) · 1 view

Niche: static site generators · 16 launches, 0 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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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 : 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #16 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 108 days after the earliest competitor.

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