Immich started the same time and with the same backstory/reasoning to my (failed) project.

I love the immich success story but it seems like it's missing a crucial use case in my view: I don't actually want a majority of the photos on my phone. I want something like a shared album that me and my wife both have access to, and so we can share photos specifically to that album (quickly and without hassle), so we can do it in the moment and both have access.

I would probably estimate 90% Of my photos are junk, But I want to isolate and share the 10% that are really special.

My app failed, but I'm thinking about reviving it as an alternative front-end to immich, to build upon that.. But I feel like I'm the only one who wants this. Everyone else seems fine with bulk photo backup for everything.

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fsmv 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I want something with a simpler backend than immich. I don't really want to host it because it needs lots of stuff to run. I would love one that can do sqlite and is a single binary go (or rust) program.

	▲	mlunar 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Mine is that: https://photofield.dev/ (but has fewer features)
	▲	globular-toast 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Syncthing?

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foobarian 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have a homegrown app too. It's too tinkery for anyone else. I throw whole iOS device backups at it so it can pluck out media from texts. Then the frontend has an efficient bulk sorting workflow with vi keys to navigate a grid of photos and tag with a few different tags or delete. I feel like this is not the same use case as immich, it's maybe a curation step before exporting a refined set of media.

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youainti 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

just disable auto-upload and then manually upload the ones you want to. There is a setting to share your immich library with someone else. Between those two features, you should get something close to what you want.

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drekipus 13 hours ago | parent [-]

For me one of the killer things would be to click "share" on a photo I took, and then have the immich albums show up so I can put them in that specific place as like a 3 click process. That's basically what I was building my whole app around

	▲	omnimus 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Just have immich app to sync only certain album? And add photos to that album. Seems like solved feature?

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wakawaka28 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can pick which albums on your phone to upload to Immich. You and your wife could have separate users on the server too if you want that. I think you can probably share a user account, or share albums between users, but the syncing might get confusing if you both have an album with the same name. The only reason I can think of to not upload everything on your phone and try to share one or two albums is that it might get hard to search through many pictures, even with the AI.

As for not wanting most of your photos, Immich also includes AI search and facial recognition which both work really well. I can't remember if it detects near-duplicates, but I thought it did. I think you should play around with it before you leap into the giant project of making your own app.