Galleryou is an event photo platform. Guests scan a QR code, snap, and their photos land in one shared gallery instantly. No app, no logins. I designed and built it end to end.
Overview
After a wedding or a party, the best shots are stuck on everyone's phones. A few get texted, most never get shared, and the host ends up chasing a group album that never fills up.
Galleryou fixes the collection problem. Guests scan a QR code, snap, and everything lands in one live gallery. I designed and built the product, from the guest flow to the host dashboard.
How it works
Set one up in about a minute. Name it, and it's ready to collect photos.
Print the QR on table cards or signs, and customize the card to match your event. Guests scan it, with no app to install.
Everyone snaps straight into one live gallery. The memories collect themselves.
The approach
Galleryou always starts with the event and the guests first. The goal was to let everyone capture and share the night without thinking about the tool at all.
For guests
Print your QR code on tables or signs. Guests scan, snap, and they're done. Nothing to download, no account to make.
Live
Photos pop onto a live gallery as guests take them. Every guest turns into a photographer, and you see it happen in real time.
AI
No scrolling through thousands of pictures. Face recognition surfaces every photo you're in, on its own.
Features
Camera
Disposable-camera looks and light-ray effects applied in the moment, so every shot gets that vintage film feel before it's shared.
Social
Guests fire off emoji reactions that pop up live on the big screen, so the whole room reacts to a photo together.
Display
A cinematic slideshow of the night's best shots, with guest comments scrolling by, ready for the big screen during the event.
Builder
Hosts build a full invitation site from templates and color themes, switching sections like countdown, RSVP, maps, and gallery on or off without touching code.
Branding
Hosts style the QR card guests scan, setting the background, pattern, and event details so it matches the wedding instead of looking generic.
Engagement
Guests like and comment on any photo, so favorites rise to the top and the gallery turns into a conversation.
Building it
The whole thing had to work from a QR scan in a browser. Anything that asked a guest to install an app or make an account would kill the moment, so the guest flow needs neither.
Matching faces across an event is the magic, but it only works if people trust it. Recognition stays scoped to the event, and each guest only ever surfaces their own photos.
A live feed that updates while dozens of guests upload at once has to stay fast and cheap. Uploads and the gallery had to feel instant without a heavy backend behind them.
Outcome
Design and engineering both came from me: the product design, the guest camera flow, the host dashboard, the live feed, and the face recognition that finds people across an event.
Next project
Lending · 2024