Google kept showing me this 94% storage warning. I had two options: pay for the 200GB plan or actually delete stuff I don’t need. I chose option three: build something to solve it.
My problem is I take burst shots of everything because I’m paranoid about blinking and bad timing, but then I never go back and pick the good one so they just pile up. I had like 30k photos and most of them were basically useless backup shots.
I had some time off work and realized I could either spend 2 days manually going through everything or spend my entire week off writing a program to do it for me, and as any sane developer would I went with option two :D
How It Works
It uses an AI model (DinoV2) that runs in your browser (thanks to WebGPUs) and groups similar looking photos together. Instead of scrolling through everything I can just see “here are the 25 photos from that dinner” and pick one good one and delete the rest.
The grouping runs entirely on-device - no photos leave your browser. That was important to me because these are personal photos.
The Launch
After clearing all the photos, I showed how it works to my girlfriend and she said I should publish it because her and some of her friends have the same problem, so here we are.
Try it out: TopPics on Chrome Web Store
The grouping part is free if anyone wants to try it. I also launched it on Product Hunt and there’s a discount code there if you want to try the auto select feature (gets you 5000 photos for free): TopPics on Product Hunt
Happy to answer questions about how it works.