Starting this site
There are 38,656 photos and 2,043 videos on my iPhone — close to 140GB. Restaurants I ate at, roads I walked down, street corners I photographed once and never opened again.
The problem was never a lack of material. The problem is that nobody can actually look through 38,656 photos. So this site works the other way around: software scans, groups, and picks first. I only look at the handful that survive, and say what I still remember.
Roughly how it runs:
- My computer scans the iCloud library in monthly batches, using timestamps and GPS to cut it into “events.”
- Screenshots, photos of documents, and burst duplicates get dropped automatically.
- An AI picks the few frames that best represent each event.
- A scheduled job checks whether the shop in those photos is still open.
- I flip through the shortlist on my phone, and talk about the ones I remember.
- The AI turns what I said into a draft. Nothing publishes until I’ve read it.
There’s one rule: the photos and my memory are the only sources of fact. Dishes I never ate don’t appear. Details I can’t recall don’t get written.
Some of these places have closed. Those don’t get deleted — they get rewritten as memorials. They existed, and I really did eat there.