I made a thing!

I've been working on an app called voolt.io. Let me tell you about it! It's new and young and I'm just trying to show it to some people who might be interested.

Alright what is it then

At its heart, voolt is an image pinning / hosting app. Give it an image URL to save something from the web to your voolt. Similarly, you can upload image files you have locally to your voolt. I'm even using it to host the images in this post, as well as those in my photo posts to Steemit.

It aims to be simple. As the header says:

no commenters, no bs

Privacy

With that in mind, there's really only one option when saving an image to voolt: public or private. Public images will show up on the main public listing at /all, and private ones won't. That's the only difference! Both types can still be shared with people via a direct link, which gives a single image page something like this:

You can always view your own voolt at /me, including both your public and private images, but you can't view anyone else's. That is, if you somehow found the username of another user, voolt offers no way to view the set of images (even just the public ones) saved by that user. Similarly, none of the data you see coming from the server identifies the user that saved it.

All of the above means that voolt is essentially a private, anonymous service. It's just one that happens to have a public wall, too. It keeps things interesting!

Open source

voolt is open source: you can view it on Github at unwitting/voolt. It's designed to be easy peasy (for someone used to doing such things) to run their own instance for their own or a group's use. This also means that you can contribute to its development by writing code or submitting issues.

It even aims to be pretty nice to use on a mobile!

voolt.io

You can use voolt now. It's great being able to host your own instance, but I'm hosting one too. It's the "official" instance as far as there is one.

Head over to voolt.io to check it out!

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Obviously the app is very young and will have a whole bunch of issues. The core service of saving and sharing is working, though, and working well. Be kind, I'd like to hear where you think it could go.