WPwps·May 28, 2026
This really reminds me of Damselfly: https://github.com/Webreaper/Damselfly
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Webreaper / Damselfly
Damselfly
Damselfly is a server-based Photograph Management app. The goal of Damselfly is to index an extremely large collection of images, and allow easy search and retrieval of those images, using metadata such as the IPTC keyword tags, as well as the folder and file names. Damselfly includes support for object/face detection.
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What it is
Damselfly is a server-based Photograph Management app. The goal of Damselfly is to index an extremely large collection of images, and allow easy search and retrieval of those images, using metadata such as the IPTC keyword tags, as well as the folder and file names. Damselfly includes support for object/face detection.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesBeen developing my app (https://github.com/webreaper/damselfly) on an M1 Mac for the last 2 years, and a Macbook pro prior to that. Development experience is pretty good - been using VS for Mac 2022 since Sept 2021. As has been mentioned, there are some challenges around drawing stuff, but nothing that ImageSharp and SkiaSharp haven't covered admirably.
I wrote up my experiences of getting AI/face-recognition working cross-platform here: https://damselfly.info/face-recognition-in-net-the-good-the-...
In Ask HN: Current state of coding .NET code on non-Windows machines?I haven't used it, but stumbled across Damselfly [1].
From the About on GitHub:
> Damselfly is a server-based Photograph Management app. The goal of Damselfly is to index an extremely large collection of images, and allow easy search and retrieval of those images, using metadata such as the IPTC keyword tags, as well as the folder and file names. Damselfly includes support for object/face detection, and face-recognition.
[1] https://github.com/Webreaper/Damselfly
In Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents?Listed on https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho... though that does not mention the advanced capabilities like face recognition.
How does it perform with huge collections? https://github.com/Webreaper/Damselfly claims staying fast even with 4+TB 500,000 photo collection.
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