Simon White

Simon White

I built an app that does less on purpose
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I'm a 50-year-old developer based in France with 25 years in web tech (ASP, PHP, JS) who finally shipped his first iOS app - with a lot of help from AI tools. I build small things I actually want to use. Photo Declutter started because my phone had 12,000 photos and every cleanup app felt stressful. I believe small apps should be free daily rituals, not monetisation funnels.

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Maker History

  • Photo Declutter
    Photo DeclutterA calm daily ritual for your photo library
    Apr 2026
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    Joined Product HuntApril 9th, 2026

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1mo ago

Android version coming soon

Photo Declutter started as an iOS app, built at 50 with no native mobile development background: just 25 years of web development and a lot of help from Claude and Claude Code.

The Android port was a natural next step. I started with a blank Android Studio project on a Wednesday morning. By Friday the core session loop was working on my Pixel 7... swipe to keep, swipe to release, review before deleting. A week later the app was feature-complete: full French localisation, daily reminders, stats, onboarding, share sheet, the Rediscovered album, and Google Play Billing.

The entire Android codebase is Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, architected as a faithful port of the iOS MVVM structure. Claude Code handled the heavy lifting: mapping PhotoKit to MediaStore, SwiftUI to Compose, Combine to StateFlow... while I tested, reviewed, and pushed back when something felt wrong.

It's now awaiting review in the Play Store. As I wrote on PeerPush: if you don't have an iPhone, check back soon for a calm daily ritual for your photos on your Samsung, Pixel, Nothing, Motorola...

ProdShortp/prodshort•

1mo ago

Is every product suddenly becoming an “AI agent”?

I was reading this recent @OpenAI article about Gartner naming OpenAI a Leader in enterprise AI coding agents: https://openai.com/index/gartner....

"Software development is becoming more agentic." This is a good summary of what is happening right now. We are moving from AI that helps you write faster, to AI that can take over tasks (actions, use tools, make changes, run tests, and bring the work back for human review). That is a very different behavior.
The article gives Cisco as an example. They used Codex for a big part of their AI Defense platform and reduced delivery time from several quarters to a few weeks.

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2mo ago

Where's the fun, Product Hunt? 🪩

Spotify started the disco ball party last week. Notion, MoonPay, Uniswap joined. Even Lovable showed up late with a tool to discomorph any logo. 

I feel like the weird lonely dude on the Product Hunt dance floor.

If you're launching soon, drop your disco ball logo in the comments
Use: https://discomorphism.lovable.app

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