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olliebennetton LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

PhotoPrism uses TensorFlow for the image classification / ML stuff (to add labels to your images), but it can be completely disabled via a flag (or toggle under advanced settings) before you begin indexing if you don't need it.

PhotoPrism's ML object detection is no doubt not as powerful as Google's, but it seems to work pretty well based on the demo, and I know the devs are working on improving it frequently.

olliebennetton LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

Be aware that Google Photos' API does not provide geolocation (lat/long) information from the photos; it's wiped.

AFAIK The only way to get the photos with all metadata intact is to use Google Takeout.

olliebennetton LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

PhotoPrism (https://photoprism.app/) generates a few different preview image ('thumbnail') sizes to support efficient use in different situations

More info: https://docs.photoprism.org/user-guide/settings/advanced/#im...

olliebennetton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

Splittable (Seed) | London (Shoreditch), UK | Full-time | ONSITE

Splittable is a web, iOS and Android app helping the world's growing population of young renters manage their shared expenses. https://www.splittable.co/

Built at the Open Data Institute in 2014, the company is run by young property enthusiasts with a collective passion for improving the lives of householders.

We're looking for a Junior Full Stack Developer to join our small but growing team, with some experience in Rails and HTML/CSS, perhaps a bit of iOS (Swift2) or Angular + Ionic Framework as a bonus.