Tired of subscriptions, Redditor builds his own local photo cleaner with Claude Code
chromak · reddit · 2026-09-05
A Redditor pens a long post mourning the early, non-commercialized internet — as a millennial he once taught himself HTML/PHP over a summer to build a free movie-script repository that drew 500,000 regular visitors.
Frustrated that photo-cleaner apps now charge £79.99-99.99/year while demanding uploads, accounts, and algorithmic deletion decisions, he used his £18/month Claude subscription plus Claude Code to build Keepr, a local-only swipe-based photo cleaner (swipe right to keep, left to queue for deletion, full review before anything is removed). He's used it on his own camera roll for a week. He likens today's AI moment to the Apple II era — an invitation for normal people to build again — while noting current tools still require hours of bug-fixing and re-explaining requirements.
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