~/echoeye · 2026
I've been building software for a couple of years now, usually starting from things I want to exist. The main one is Picashot, a home for in-game photography. I started it in 2021. It hosts over 200,000 photos today, with around 2,000 more added every month.
What follows is what's inside Picashot, why I made it, and a few other things I've built along the way.
A home for in-game photography.
I've always loved games, but one thing that stuck with me early on was how people captured them. Screenshots, clips, quiet moments, landscapes. Seeing how a single frame could completely change how you looked at a game.
Over time, I started noticing a community of people who cared about that just as much. People treating games not just as something to play, but something to capture.
The problem was, most of that work ended up scattered across platforms like Instagram, Reddit, or X. Places built for fast feeds, not for properly discovering, organizing, or preserving the work.
So in 2021, I started building Picashot. A place where in-game photography could be treated like its own medium. Not just content, but craft.
Think early Flickr, but for game photography.
Live at picashot.co, on iOS and Android at picashot.co/download, currently hosting 200,000+ photos and growing by around 2,000 every month.
It started as an Android app. That was all I knew how to build at the time. A year later I rewrote the whole thing in Expo so it could run on iOS too. The website came after that, first in Next.js.
Today, the site has migrated off Next.js to TanStack Start. A framework built around how a web platform is actually supposed to be put together.
What I built into Picashot, beyond the basic photo feed.
Picashot ships with its own image editor. Crop and rotate, exposure and contrast, color and tone, plus a set of filter presets. It covers the edits a screenshot usually needs before it looks the way the scene actually looked.
Everything runs on-device. Capture a shot in a game's photo mode, finish it inside Picashot, post it. No detour through Lightroom or a desktop tool.
Picashot has a full trophy system. Four tiers (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum) and over 100 unlockable achievements that fire on actions like posting a first shot, following another photographer, or writing a review.
Each unlock contributes points to a per-account trophy level. Felt right for a community built around games.
Some games take photo mode seriously, some don't. Picashot includes a per-game review system: a five-star rating, sub-criteria for things like camera versatility and graphics quality, and a written writeup.
Reviews can attach shots from the reviewer's own gallery as evidence, and link out to a longer article when something deserves a full case study.
Picashot ships with a dedicated writing tool: a rich-text editor for full articles. Photo essays, case studies, deep dives on a game's photo mode. Anything that doesn't fit in a caption.
Articles live alongside photos on a creator's profile, and can be linked from a game review when something deserves a deeper writeup.
Most in-game photography ends up scattered across Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky. Picashot crossposts to all four from a single screen.
The flow handles each platform's quirks automatically: aspect ratios for Instagram, character limits for X and Bluesky, the multi-image carousel for TikTok. One caption, written once, adapted per destination.
Studio is a separate space inside Picashot for curating a personal mini portfolio. It pulls from a creator's library and shows only what they've chosen to feature, set apart from the community feed.
A custom domain can be linked to it, so a photographer can point their own URL at the page. An offsite home that's just the work, nothing else around it.
A few I built because I wanted to use them. A few I built for other people.
Picashot runs alongside this. Both teach me a lot.
Building tools that help businesses collect and manage reviews, and run targeted campaigns to engage their customers.
Worked with the frontend and mobile teams to build the API endpoints that powered the grocery shopping flow.
Helped launch the first Android and iOS apps, reaching hundreds of thousands of artists.
Email is the best way to reach me: [email protected].
I'm also on Twitter, LinkedIn, and GitHub. My resume is on Google Drive if you need it.
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