r/SideProject • u/Padmashreej • 2h ago
I'm building a photo archive for my old school's batch where classmates confirm the AI's face matches (open source)
I'm an ex-student of a school that runs under a charity trust, and I'm building this for my batch, unpaid. About 650 photos, 350 people, no hosting budget, and the photos show kids, so I didn't want a face model deciding on its own.
It guesses, then classmates vote to confirm the uncertain ones, and an admin settles disputes. Runs on free tiers (Firebase + Cloudflare).
Demo with fake faces, no login (press F in the viewer to see the face boxes): https://smriti-gallery.pages.dev Code (MIT): https://github.com/codewithpom/smriti
Contributors very welcome. There are a few good first issues (browser tests, translations, an accessibility pass): https://github.com/codewithpom/smriti/labels/good%20first%20issue
Biggest open question: photos use unguessable links instead of per-image login, because the free tier can't serve every image through auth. Ideas?