I built an open-source, on-device photo culler for macOS in Kotlin
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If you have ever shot an event, the painful part is not the shoot. It is sitting down afterwards with three thousand near-identical frames and deciding, one arrow key at a time, which single frame of each burst is the keeper. I am a Kotlin engineer, not a photographer. But I kept watching people I know grind through this with tools that either cost a subscription or quietly upload their clients' photos to some cloud. So I built Rhenium - a free, open-source, 100% on-device photo culler for…
1Key Takeaways
- If you have ever shot an event, the painful part is not the shoot.
- It is sitting down afterwards with three thousand near-identical frames and deciding, one arrow key at a time, which single frame of each burst is the keeper.
- I am a Kotlin engineer, not a photographer.
- But I kept watching people I know grind through this with tools that either cost a subscription or quietly upload their clients' photos to some cloud.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that if you have ever shot an event, the painful part is not the shoot.
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