Fotelya

This is cool. When I used to work in the virtual events space, I partnered with a virtual photo wall product. This seems to be better with the design,

Hi Fazier! I'm Jo, solo maker. Fotelya was born from my brother's wedding: I wanted his guests' photos to land on a live wall at the party, not to die in group chats. So I built it: guests scan a QR code, add photos from the browser (no app, no account), and the venue screen fills up in real time. Everything is EU-hosted, GDPR by design, and photos are never used to train AI. We are also live on Product Hunt today. Happy to answer anything!

Love the privacy-first approach for sharing event photos. Making it easy for guests to access memories without sacrificing data protection is a strong value proposition. Wishing you a successful launch!

Thank you Iryna! That balance was the whole challenge: privacy usually adds friction, and events are exactly where friction kills participation (grandparents included). So every privacy choice had to stay invisible for guests: scan, share, done. Thanks for the kind words and have a great day!

Nice work! This solves a real problem in a simple way. I hope you continue improving it with more useful updates.

Thank you! Simple was the hard part: everything has to work for a guest who scanned a QR code three seconds ago, so every update gets tested against that bar. If you ever think of something that would make it more useful for your events, I am all ears!

Fotelya is a great idea for making event memories easy to capture and share in real time

Event photo capture friction solved completely. Wedding and event organizers usually watch memories scatter - guests text blurry phone photos, some share to private Instagram DMs, half the candid moments vanish forever. Fotelya eliminates that fragmentation entirely. QR code setup means zero friction entry for guests - no app download, no account creation, just scan and shoot. Photos accumulate in one shared album instead of spilling across devices and cloud accounts. The live wall display changes the energy too - guests see themselves immortalized real-time, creating this shared moment energy that phone photography doesn't naturally produce. Privacy-first approach matters for events - your guest photos stay yours, never datafeed for marketing. Real win for event moments that deserve better than the chaos of group chat photo archaeology.

Wall displays is brilliant, how do you stop something embarrassing from being shared?

Thank you! Real time is really where the magic is: the wall fills up during the event and suddenly everyone wants to add their photos. Thanks for stopping by!

Wow, thank you Gal, you basically wrote a better pitch than mine. "Group chat photo archaeology" is exactly the problem, I might steal that phrase. And you nailed the live wall effect: seeing your photo appear on the big screen ten seconds after taking it is what turns passive guests into contributors. Appreciate you taking the time to look at it properly!

Answering We Got You 1776 on embarrassing uploads: it's the first thing venues ask too. Three layers. AI moderation (EU-hosted models) reviews every upload and anything flagged stays off the wall. Organizers choose how strict it should be (off, standard, strict) depending on the crowd. And if something slips through anyway, they can remove it from the wall in one tap. Weddings taught us to plan for uncle Bob at 1am.

The real-time display on the live wall is brilliant for engagement - guests actually want to contribute when they see their photos appear instantly. How are you handling the experience for users on older devices or slower network speeds at events?

Great question Omri, that constraint shaped most of the architecture. Uploads are resumable with an offline queue in IndexedDB: when the venue wifi drops (it always does), photos wait on the device and retry when the connection comes back, without the guest doing anything. The guest side is a plain lightweight web page, no app to download, so it stays usable on a five-year-old Android with one bar of 3G. And the live wall runs on the venue screen, not on guest devices, so their phones only ever upload. Concrete wedding venues were basically our QA lab.

Would love to know about the max storage per user can use and per media file limit you guys use from an engineering point of view, to manage your storage pricing.

Very useful approach, thanks for creating this one.

Answering Rohit on storage: great engineering question. Per media file we cap at 40 MB today (photos and videos, originals preserved). We deliberately do not meter storage per user: pricing is per event, uploads unlimited on paid plans. It works because of two choices: object storage with zero egress fees keeps marginal cost low, and albums auto-delete after the event, so storage per event is bounded in time instead of accumulating forever. The free tier has limited retention, which also keeps the abuse surface small. Happy to go deeper if useful!

Thank you Zygimantas, glad the approach resonates! It came from watching real events hit the same three walls: app installs, account creation, and photos that never get shared. Appreciate the kind words!

This is so useful for large scale events.

Thank you Styla team! Large events are exactly where it shines: the more guests, the more angles of the same moment you collect. The live wall handles hundreds of guests uploading at once, we load tested it well beyond a typical wedding. Appreciate the support!

The no-app QR flow and the stance that privacy must stay invisible for guests feel right for events. I also like that moderation has both AI filtering and one-tap removal instead of assuming the model catches everything. For organizers choosing a plan, a simple capacity guide would be valuable: typical upload limits, expected gallery retention, and what happens when a large event’s Wi-Fi fails. Those details would make the first event easier to plan with confidence.

Thank you Zachary, this is exactly the kind of feedback that shapes the docs. Quick answers: each event has a storage quota by plan (2 GB free, 25 GB Event, 75 GB Premium) with a 100 MB cap per video, and galleries are kept 30 days on free, 6 months on Event, 12 months on Premium, then deleted for good, that is the privacy stance. On Wi-Fi: guests upload over their own mobile data, so a venue outage does not stop the collection, and the wall screen catches up as soon as its connection returns. We load tested well beyond a typical wedding to make sure of that. A simple capacity guide is a great idea, adding it to the help center.

seems good, I will try for sure

Event memory capture solved. Most event organizers struggle with the same problem: guests never share their photos, or they scatter across messaging apps and get lost. Hiring photographers is expensive and you still miss the moments guests captured. Fotelya removes that entire coordination tax by turning every guest into a contributor. The QR code means zero friction on entry, no app downloads, no accounts to create. Guests naturally share because the real-time wall creates a shared experience and FOMO to see yourself on the big screen. The polaroid rendering is genius for the aesthetic, and the fact that organizers keep a shared album means memories don't evaporate after the event. For wedding planners, corporate event managers, and venue operators, this eliminates the post-event photo management nightmare entirely. EU-hosted GDPR by design means no compliance headaches. Real win for creating better event memories.

The QR-with-no-app choice is the right call — the moment you ask wedding guests to download something, half of them are out. I run a free fitness site and dropping the signup wall was the single best decision I made, so this resonates. One thing I'd want to know as a host though: the wall shows uploads in real time, so is there a moderation step I control before something lands on the venue screen, or does it go straight up?

This is a brilliant concept. I really like the privacy first focus of it, but I am curious about how it handles large attachments.

Really cool concept for event photography! The live photo wall idea is great for weddings and corporate events. Would love to see integration with social media sharing.

Really cool concept for event photography! The live photo wall idea is great for weddings and corporate events.

Hi, Fazier! Helpful tool

Hi Fazier! A good tool you made which is very helpful

Wall displays is brilliant, how do you stop something embarrassing from being shared?

Wall displays is brilliant, how do you stop something embarrassing from being shared?

@Nicolas Lecocq Thank you Nicolas! The free tier lets you try it on a real event, printable QR poster included, so you can watch the wall fill up live. If anything feels off during your first event, tell me and I will fix it fast!

@Gal Dayan Thank you again Gal, two scout checks in one launch, I am honored! "Coordination tax" is exactly the right frame: nobody owns photo collection at an event, so it silently fails every time. Making the wall the shared moment is what flips guests from consumers into contributors. And glad the polaroid rendering landed, weddings loved it so much it became the default.

@FORMA Build Great question, and congrats on dropping your own signup wall, same philosophy! By default nothing lands on the venue screen unchecked: every upload goes through AI moderation first (EU-hosted models) and anything flagged never reaches the wall. You choose the strictness per event (off, standard, strict), and anything that still feels off you remove from the wall in one tap. The host sets the policy and keeps a kill switch, without approving photos one by one during their own party.

@Elvis Hsiao Thank you Elvis! Photos keep their full resolution (originals preserved), and videos are supported up to 100 MB each. Large files upload in resumable chunks with an offline queue on the guest device: if the venue connection drops mid-upload, it quietly resumes when the network comes back.

@fferoz112233 Thank you, glad you find it helpful! If you ever run it at an event and something could be smoother, I am one message away.

@Ganesh S Thank you Ganesh! Sharing is already simple on the album side: the whole gallery lives behind one link the host can send anywhere, and everyone can download their favorites. Direct social integrations are on the radar, but I am deliberately careful there: many hosts pick Fotelya precisely because photos stay private by default. If you have a specific flow in mind (say, the host posting a highlights reel), I would love to hear it!

@Premsanth Rajamani Thank you Premsanth! Three layers: AI moderation reviews every upload before it can reach the wall (EU-hosted models), the organizer picks the strictness per event (off, standard, strict), and anything that slips through can be removed from the wall in one tap. Weddings taught us to plan for uncle Bob at 1am!

Fotelya has great potential! A few improvements could make it even better. I'd love to share my feedback and suggestions. WhatsApp: https://wa.me/447307349530 Telegram: t.me/rforrank

@Jwins Tate Thank you Jwins! I keep all product conversations in public threads or through the site's contact page, so feel free to share your suggestions right here. Always happy to read concrete feedback!

Love this for events. If you're thinking about video alongside photos, we do the processing and delivery infrastructure at Qencode. Happy to chat whenever. Great launch!

@Qencode Corp Thank you! Video is already live on Fotelya (resumable uploads, up to 100 MB per clip) with our own EU-hosted processing behind it, and keeping the whole chain EU-side is a hard constraint for us. Appreciate the offer and the kind words on the launch!

Really useful idea for events. I like that guests can add photos and videos through a QR code without downloading an app or creating an account — that removes a lot of friction. The live wall also makes it feel more engaging during the event, not just after it. Privacy angle is strong too, especially EU-hosting, no ads, and no AI training on user photos. Curious how Fotelya handles moderation before photos appear on the live wall — can hosts approve or hide content in real time? Great launch!

This is cool. When I used to work in the virtual events space, I partnered with a virtual photo wall product. This seems to be better with the design,