Consumer SaaS

PhotoAlbum — Retro Photo Sharing SaaS

A nostalgic 90s-style photo album app with subscription tiers, video processing, and album sharing.

PhotoAlbum illustration: a grid of nine retro photo prints in orange, pink, teal and cream, headlined Albums with a warmer memory layer, on a dark teal background

Photo+Video Media support
Stripe Payments

4 subscription tiers

Year: 2025
Client: Personal Project
Duration: 3 weeks
Services: Product Development, Payment Integration
Platforms: Web
Built with: FFmpeg

Ruby on Rails

SQLite

Stripe

Tailwind CSS

The Project

A photo and video album platform with a warm, retro aesthetic inspired by 90s web design. Users create albums, upload media with automatic metadata extraction, and share with friends — all behind a subscription model with tiered storage.

Key Features

Subscription tiers — Free, Basic, Pro, Ultimate with storage quotas (Stripe integration)
Media processing — automatic EXIF extraction, thumbnail generation, and FFmpeg video transcoding
Album sharing — granular permissions for who can view, comment, or contribute
Storage management — real-time quota tracking and enforcement
Retro UI — nostalgic design language that stands out from generic modern apps

Technical Highlights

Rails 8.1 with Devise for auth, Pundit for authorization, Stripe for payments. FFmpeg for video processing. EXIF data extraction for automatic photo metadata. Active Storage with variant processing.

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