🖼️Immich
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High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
⭐ Hugely popular: 111k stars, gaining about 849 a week
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momentum
durability
bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.
since we covered it
why it's a big deal
- Local-first control for large libraries with modern search and recognition.
- Mature mobile and web clients ease migration from cloud services.
- Community charts and packages support Kubernetes and container deployments.
under the hood
- TypeScript, Dart, Svelte, and NestJS-based server.
- Vector and metadata search with face and object detection.
- AGPL-3.0 license and frequent tagged releases.
our take from PR#20, 2025-10-29
star history
- PR#20 82k 2025-10-29
- now 111k + 28k since first covered
curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.
understory
Quietly building: more output than attention, for now.
- output, commits & releases
- clout, star velocity
output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →
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self-hosted photo and video management
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replaces
alternatives to Google Photos →- Google Photos
Google
closed source - iCloud Photos
Apple
closed source - Amazon Photos
Amazon
closed source
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