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Self-hosting my photos with Immich

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
659 points birdculture | 5 comments | 30 Nov 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.975s | source
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drekipus ◴[06 Dec 25 03:06 UTC] No.46170231[source]▶
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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1. youainti ◴[06 Dec 25 03:24 UTC] No.46170349[source]▶
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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2. drekipus ◴[06 Dec 25 03:31 UTC] No.46170391[source]▶
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
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3. omnimus ◴[06 Dec 25 08:35 UTC] No.46171675[source]▶
Just have immich app to sync only certain album? And add photos to that album. Seems like solved feature?
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4. DrammBA ◴[06 Dec 25 19:02 UTC] No.46175730{3}[source]▶
I don't think he's here looking for a solution.
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5. drekipus ◴[07 Dec 25 13:00 UTC] No.46181383{4}[source]▶
Well I am looking for the laziest solution possible. Hoping not to have to build it, but I prefer building something than trying to configure 50 different things to make it work how I want it to for my whole family.

I just want one click albums. Apparently this is the hill I'll die on.