Show HN: Tool to publish Apple Photos online

Posted by podviaznikov on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:14AM
from the show-hn dept.

Made a small tool to publish albums from Apple Photos online.

The goal is to: 1) view photos in different ways: timeline, grid etc 2) allow people to bring their own domain 3) allow people to embed those photos in other places online

Basically I'm trying to make apple photos web friendly.

It works in a very simple way.

Your photos are in your iCloud, but you share specific albums that you want to make public.

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Re:Show HN: Tool to publish Apple Photos online by asimpletune on Friday August 25, 2023 @07:28AM (#37260487)

Cool project. It would be helpful if it was more explicit what this does vs the already existing publicly shareable link that you get for apple photos.

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Re:Show HN: Tool to publish Apple Photos online by podviaznikov on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:57AM (#37261789)

agree!

Currently it allows you to see photos in 2 different ways: timeline and grid.

It also allows you to add custom domain name so you can have it on your own website.

and other things are mostly work in progress: add ability to embed photos on other websites, API, plus some social features - like follow albums and users.

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Re:Show HN: Tool to publish Apple Photos online by podviaznikov on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:58AM (#37261795)

so mostly upcoming features is what makes it really different from the default sharing

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Re:Show HN: Tool to publish Apple Photos online by crossroadsguy on Saturday August 26, 2023 @03:01AM (#37270466)

For one it doesn't show my full iCloud account name. That is really annoying. While I am not asking to be "truly" anonymous" (that would be nice thoguh), I would't mind sharing an iCloud link which doesn't involve any personal data about me. I mean there could be one radio button like "Anonymize" just like there is one for "Location" and "All Photos Data".

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Re:Show HN: Tool to publish Apple Photos online by LazarWolf_ on Friday August 25, 2023 @12:47PM (#37263917)

Very cool idea, would only be interested if self-hosted options were available though.

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Re:Show HN: Tool to publish Apple Photos online by podviaznikov on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:23PM (#37274825)

yeah, I think it’s possible for sure. just takes work and time to implement

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