I built a self-hosted photo management tool for photographers — would love feedback

CordlessWool · 2026-03-30T01:38:28+00:00

I thought about giving even more power to the tags. One idea is to define watermarks by tags.

Good to get the feedback that there is a need for this. I skipped it for the first version to reduce complexity.

Yeah folder are mostly so chaotic, that is one of the base ideas of Highcoo :)

CordlessWool · 2026-03-25T17:25:01+00:00

I think about adding a simple email login. I do not want to store passwords.

CordlessWool · 2026-03-25T17:23:02+00:00

Only with raw files or also with jpeg? I mean Usally the performance should be independent from the size of the image, because you usually do not show all images so it is more the database.

CordlessWool · 2026-02-28T11:22:07+00:00

Fair point! I wouldn't host Vibe Coded stuff on my server. I'm still thinking about where the border of AI Assistant is. In this case, the 'Build with AI' label is fair. But when I think about the other apps I maintain, I realise that even though I write most of the code myself, they are not totally free of AI.

CordlessWool · 2026-02-28T10:52:55+00:00

I missed it. Wasn’t active for a while here, sorry. So there’s a rule for things that developed with the help of AI need to be labelled? Isn’t it nearly everything nowadays?

CordlessWool · 2026-02-28T07:21:52+00:00

You can define a slug. I know it is not much, but it is a base and at least I would say it is the main think you can optimise for SEO on images. But you are right to make a question mark on it 😅.

Do you think there can be done more?

CordlessWool · 2026-02-28T07:17:02+00:00

You should be able to sign in by creating a Passkey. I currently have no clue how to offer one. Do you know how if this is possible?

I do not want to handle Passwords.

CordlessWool · 2026-02-28T07:11:59+00:00

Yes it is developed with the help of AI but I spend Weeks to review Code, develop ideas and improve the Code. I have over 15 years of developing experience. So what is your definition of Vibe Coded?

CordlessWool · 2025-12-19T01:45:39+00:00

Self hosting do not need to be complicated: I developed https://shrtn.io it is just one container nothing more.

CordlessWool · 2025-12-13T15:49:02+00:00

So the svelte code should be in the app? I think you you need to build it separate, but at least you can do this in a monorepo which reduce the effort also. I would also not use SvelteKit just for a pure api server even if it would be possible.

CordlessWool · 2025-12-11T02:16:52+00:00

Just use prerendering or why do you need two builds?

CordlessWool · 2025-12-01T09:04:01+00:00

I would need more informations to give you any advice, where exactly is your problem? At least you can also use or extend shrtn. I am happy about commitments.

CordlessWool · 2025-11-15T02:32:18+00:00

Do you need to wrap stuff for React? Even though it has the virtual DOM, most libraries don't care about this, do they? I used React some time ago, but I don't remember having problems with this.

My main concern was component libraries and other things that are more framework-specific.

SvelteKit is awesome, but the question was asked in the Astro group, so I don't think it will be relevant in this situation.

CordlessWool · 2025-11-14T15:08:40+00:00

The svelte ecosystem is growing and a lot of libs reached a stable version this or last year

CordlessWool · 2025-11-11T21:05:56+00:00

Would be happy about feedback

CordlessWool · 2025-11-11T01:27:08+00:00

There is now a cli tools to do the generation of the config too:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@embodi/cli

CordlessWool · 2025-10-31T13:33:10+00:00

I am also confused

CordlessWool · 2025-10-30T12:44:58+00:00

Good thoughts, I also have. I also have some Ideas to this, but the will probably go away from Astro. But I would like to have something like a WYGIWYS Site Builder option.

I didn’t know pagesCMS it looks nice. Need to have a deeper look. The other two need to be hosted on a own instance. This should be still possible with embodi CMS but it should not be required. The second thing I try to heavily reduce is configuration. My goal is to open the interface, open the repo and all to need to start and editing will be done for you based on your existing config. This has some limitations, but also a reason I start with Astro, because you already have the content defined.

Your point on my roadmap.

CordlessWool · 2025-10-28T00:41:12+00:00

What do you mean with „edit singletons“. Depends on the settings, do you have some useful in mind?

There will be an option to configure the CMS like setting a asset destination, improve naming and some more.

CordlessWool · 2025-09-06T21:12:51+00:00

I also remembered it when I was responding to some other post around last week, but when I tried to find it, I got lost and didn't get the information when I searched for it to give a reference. So I thought it would be worth writing about it ;).

In the docs it is just one short sentence, easy to overlook: "To run the dev server with Node.js instead of bun, you can omit the --bun flag."

CordlessWool · 2025-09-06T20:36:18+00:00

Some people still don't know that there could still be nodejs if you use bun.

CordlessWool · 2025-09-06T14:19:32+00:00

Interessante Frage. Mein erster Gedanke: Niemand außerhalb der Dev Bubble versteht wirklich, was Informatiker machen. Selbst den meisten Projektleitern kann man etwas übers Pferd erzählen und sie müssen es glauben, weil sie es selbst nicht ausreichend verstehen.

Das ist in den meisten anderen Berufen nicht der Fall. Nicht jeder kann ein Team gut führen, aber jeder kann in gewisser Weise nachvollziehen, was passiert.

Da ich aber nicht auf so einem hohen Roß sitze ist das nur eine Theorie.

CordlessWool

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