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Almost Crossed: Before You Met

See where your paths may have crossed before you met

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Could you and someone you know have crossed paths before you met? Almost Crossed uses the dates and places in each person's photo and video memories to reveal shared places and possible close crossings. Explore your own memories on a globe, replay journeys through the years, then compare privately together. Photos and videos stay on your devices; no account or live tracking is required. Results are clues, not proof of a meeting, and depend on available photo metadata.

PH · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views

Niche: relationship and couples apps · 127 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Android
  • Travel
  • Photography
  • Maps

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Could you build this?

Partial The globe, timeline, and memory UI are vibe-codeable, but extracting and matching EXIF dates and locations across users' photos is the fiddly part. Comparing 'privately' between two people likely needs privacy-preserving techniques such as private set intersection, which vibe coding won't produce reliably.

What it would actually take: Build a mobile or web client that reads photo and video metadata (EXIF, GPS, timestamps) and clusters it into places and journeys on a map. The privacy-preserving comparison needs a cryptographic protocol such as private set intersection or hashed location buckets, which requires someone who understands the privacy guarantees. Scaling the matching and handling large media libraries also adds backend cost and complexity.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 215 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #125 of 216 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.

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