Our story
The app I built so Grandma could see my kid
As a new dad living far from home, I was constantly snapping photos of my little boy’s life — playtime, nap time, dance moves, the walk around the neighbourhood. The hard part was never taking them. It was sorting and sharing them.
Every time I wanted to send a few pictures, I had to forward them to three different family group chats: my parents, my grandma, my aunties. Upload to WhatsApp here, resend on Signal there, maybe drop a few into some cloud folder, and hope I hadn’t forgotten anyone.
And it only ever went one way. My family were taking photos too — of the same afternoons, from the other side of the room — and those lived on their phones, where I never saw them.
That is the problem SharePix solves.
What if one link replaced all of that? What if everyone could add their own photos to the same album, so the day exists once, from everyone’s angle? And what if Grandma could open it on her phone without a tutorial?
So that is what it does
- Create an album and name it. That is the whole setup.
- Send one invite link. It works for 48 hours or 10 people, whichever runs out first.
- Everyone you invited adds their own photos and short videos to the same album.
- React, comment, and see who added what. No likes, no profiles, no follower counts.
The parts I refuse to get wrong
These are family photos, so the boring decisions matter more than the features. Albums are unlisted and only the people you invite can see them. There is no public feed and no profile to fill in. We do not show ads, we do not sell data, and your photos are never used to train AI models. Media is served through short-lived signed links rather than sitting on a public URL.
Storage works the same way: plainly. Every account starts with 1 GB free, which is roughly 300 photos, and you can earn up to 1 GB more by inviting friends who are new to SharePix. If you need more than that, you buy a one-time pack — 2 GB, 10 GB or 25 GB. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel.
And whatever gets added to an album counts against the storage of whoever created it. If you invite your family to your album, they never pay for anything and never see a price. That felt like the only honest way to build it: the person who started the album is the person who owns it.
SharePix is on iPhone today, and Android is planned. The people you invite need the app to join — the link shows them a preview and sends them to the App Store if they do not have it yet.
Best of all? I haven’t forwarded a photo since.