The problem
Family photos sit in shoeboxes: faded, scratched, black and white, and nobody remembers who is in them. Restoration studios are slow and expensive, so most of these pictures are never touched.
The goal was a product a grandparent's family could use in one evening: upload a photo, see it restored, and keep the names and stories in one private place.
What we built
- A French landing page with a free trial: upload one or two photos and see a preview of the result before signing up
- Passwordless sign-in by email code or magic link
- AI restoration and colourisation running in a background queue, so the site stays fast
- "Bring a photo to life": a short AI video made from a still photo
- A family tree editor with photos attached to people, printable and downloadable
- A family clip editor in the browser: photos, captions, music, 720p export rendered on the user's own device
- Credit packs sold through Stripe Checkout with card and TWINT, a referral programme and seasonal landing pages
- Installable app (PWA), push notifications, lifecycle emails with one-click unsubscribe, and an admin dashboard
How it's built
Everything runs on Cloudflare's network with no server to maintain. Slow AI work goes into a queue with automatic retries; jobs that get stuck are refunded on their own, and unclaimed uploads are deleted after 72 hours.
Daily caps and per-network limits keep the free preview from burning the AI budget, and video export happens on the visitor's device, so it costs nothing on the server.
Why it matters for you
This is what a 7-day sprint can look like when the scope is clear: a real product with sign-in, payments in Swiss francs and a working AI pipeline, not a clickable mockup.