yougram

yougram is a self-hosted image sharing app that ships as a single static binary with zero runtime dependencies. Built with Go and SQLite on the backend and HTMX/Alpine.js on the frontend, it's designed to be trivial to deploy — copy one file to your server and it runs. It's a private, self-hosted alternative to services like Imgur.

Yes, self-hosting is the whole point. The entire app is one ~40MB binary (x86_64 Linux, arm64 Linux, and arm64 macOS) with no external service dependencies, so it runs on arbitrarily bad hardware unless you enable AI features. There is a private interface for account holders and a separate guest interface for shareable albums; the docs recommend exposing these via Tailscale and Tailscale Funnel, or behind a TLS-terminating proxy like Caddy.

yougram supports multi-user accounts so your whole family can use it, plus guest access via secret album links — writable links for collaborative trips or uploads, and read-only links for everyone else. Guests never need an account, and the private/guest split keeps your account management safely isolated from the public-facing interface.

Yes. yougram sends zero telemetry — nothing leaves your computer, and you can firewall all outgoing connections. It stores your photos unmodified as files on disk, so standard backup tools like restic or borg work cleanly, and getting your data out is an explicitly supported workflow with no lock-in.

You can upload and download RAW files that stack alongside their JPEGs, and drag-and-drop uploads are supported. AI-powered features are planned or in development, including on-device photo tagging (search for cats) and facial recognition (search for people), plus automatic video transcoding. Note the project is in early development and not yet stable, though it handles tens of thousands of photos fine.