Show HN: DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit)

Source: Hacker News

Overview

I was frustrated with photo‑sharing sites. Apple’s iCloud shared albums take 20+ seconds to load, and everything else comes with ads, cumbersome UIs, or social‑media distractions. I just want to share photos with friends and family: fast, mobile‑friendly, and distraction‑free.

How it works

1. Export photos from whatever you already use (Lightroom, Apple Photos, etc.) into folders.
2. Run photogen (a Go CLI) to resize them to WebP and generate JSON indexes.
3. Deploy the generated SvelteKit static site anywhere that serves files (Apache, S3, etc.).

There is no server‑side code and no database required.

Live example

https://photos.donohoe.info

Repository

https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddphotos