I Ditched iCloud Photo Sharing and Built My Own (with an AI partner)

iCloud shared albums take 26+ seconds to load on my 300 Mbps fiber connection. I timed it. Apple, a trillion-dollar company, built something that is embarrassing to show people. Other photo sharing sites have their own irritations like cumbersome UIs, advertising, hawking of photo paraphernalia and social media distractions. I just want to share photos with friends and family. Focus on the photos. So I built DD Photos — an open-source static photo gallery generator. It's what runs photos.donohoe