The local photohub · Preorder now open

The cloud is reading
your family photos.
Bring them home.

A photo box you plug in at home or your studio. Every phone backs up automatically. Photos never leave. $449 once — no cloud subscription.

Preorder $449 (save $50 off $499). First 300 units only.
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Hawaii · Jul 2023
Beach day
Studio · 2024
Client shoot
Home · every day
Kids
$449 one-time purchase
Photos never leave home
No account required
30-day return · 1-year warranty
The problem

You pay every month for photos you already own — and you have no idea who's looking.

Your family photos sit on servers you don't own. Scanned. Indexed. Fed to AI you never agreed to.

Every month you pay to keep them there. Every year the price goes up. You have no say.

"With the way everyone is training AI on everything now, I don't really trust google, apple, etc with my photos." — Hacker News discussion, 2025

The alternative — NAS, Docker, forum posts at 2am — isn't an alternative. It's a hobby. And the moment your partner or teammate tries to use it, it breaks.

What IMMI is

A box you plug in.
That's the whole product.

Pre-configured hardware that runs locally on your network. Plug in. Scan a QR with your phone. Every photo backs up automatically. Search by memory. Photos never leave the box.

No cloud subscription. No Docker. No homelab. Just your photos, home.

IMMI photo box — a compact home photo appliance with cooling fan, USB, HDMI and ethernet ports

One box. At home with your family, or in your studio with your team.

At home

The family photohub

Every phone in the house backs up to one box. A decade of kids' photos, one place, for life.

  • Automatic backup from every phone
  • Search by memory: "Hawaii 2023"
  • Shared albums for the household
  • Anniversary & memory surfacing
  • Grandma-friendly setup — just scan a QR
In the studio

The team photohub

One box, team access, no per-seat fees. Client assets stay in your office — by physics.

  • One archive for every project
  • Team access, no monthly per-seat fees
  • Client data never leaves your office
  • Search across every project in <1 second
  • $449 once — replaces multiple SaaS seats
Why it works

Everything a cloud gives you. Nothing a cloud takes.

01

5-minute setup

Plug in. Scan QR. Done. No Docker, no terminal, no router config.

02

Every phone, automatically

Every photo backs up silently. Invite the whole household or team — all phones sync to the same box.

03

AI search, on-device

Type "Hawaii 2023" and find it. The AI runs locally. Originals never leave the box.

04

Yours, forever

Your hardware, your files. Standard JPEG, RAW, video. Plug in a drive and take everything — no lock-in.

05

Managed updates

Firmware and app updates arrive over the air. If one fails, the device rolls back automatically.

How it works

Three steps. No instruction manual.

Plug it in

Power and ethernet. The device boots and configures itself. No monitor, no keyboard.

Scan the QR

Open the IMMI app. Scan the QR on the device screen. Paired in seconds — no IP, no port forwarding.

Photos come home

Every paired phone backs up silently. Add family or teammates — everything flows into one library.

Honest comparison

Not Google Photos. Not a NAS. Something different.

Cloud (iCloud / Google) DIY NAS IMMI
Long-term cost ~$10/mo forever $500–$1500 + time $449 once
Photo ownership Platform-controlled Full control Full control
Setup time Seconds Hours to days Under 5 minutes
Maintenance Automatic Yours. Forever. OTA with rollback
AI organization Yes (reads all photos) DIY add-on Yes (metadata only)
Photos ever uploaded? Always Never Never
If the company dies? Data at risk N/A Photos stay on your hardware
How we protect what matters

Your photos, forever yours.

Trusting a new brand with irreplaceable memories is a big ask. Here's how we protect them — by architecture, not by promise.

Photos stay on your device

Your originals never transmit to our servers or anyone else's. Not a policy we wrote — a property of the hardware.

Standard formats, exportable

JPEG, RAW, video — original formats on hardware you own. Plug in a drive and take everything, anytime.

No account. No cloud subscription.

You bought a product, not a service. No logins to our servers, no monthly fees, no renewal surprises — ever.

Common questions

Everything you want to know.

How is this different from a regular NAS?
A NAS is general-purpose storage — photos are one feature among many, and you configure everything yourself. IMMI is built around the photo experience: everything pre-installed, mobile-first, zero-config, managed updates. The goal isn't "store a lot of things" — it's "photos just work."
I use Google Photos or iCloud. Will migrating be painful?
No. A built-in migration wizard imports from major cloud services and local libraries — no batch uploading by hand. The full list of supported sources will be confirmed before launch.
Can my whole family use it together?
Yes. Multiple family members connect their phones and everything flows into one shared library. Shared albums let everyone contribute and browse. Grandparents included — setup is just scanning a QR code.
Can my studio team use it for client work?
Yes. IMMI works for small creative teams (photographers, architects, real-estate, design studios). Multiple accounts, permission controls, and project-level organization. Your client assets never leave your office — which is a concrete answer if a client ever asks where their data lives.
What if your company closes down?
Your photos sit in standard formats — JPEG, RAW, video — on hardware you own. Plug in a drive and export everything, any time. You never needed our servers in the first place.
Is the AI search as good as Google Photos?
We're not claiming identical. We're aiming to be genuinely close — natural-language search like "2022 Christmas with kids" — while keeping full privacy. AI runs on-device and only processes metadata. Your images are never uploaded anywhere.
Is it actually non-technical?
You plug in one cable. You scan a QR code. That's it. If you can use a smartphone, you can use IMMI. No IP addresses, no port forwarding, no Docker, no terminal. Ever.
Why we built this

We built IMMI because we were tired of the deal.

Pay forever. Trust the cloud. Hope the company doesn't change its mind.

Our photos are the most important files we'll ever own. They shouldn't live somewhere we can't see, under terms that can change.

So we built a box. Plug it in. Photos come home. No cloud, no account, no lock-in — you own the hardware.

— The IMMI team

Bring your photos
home.

$449 preorder · 300 units only.
No credit card charge. We'll notify you when IMMI is ready.

30-day return · 1-year warranty · No cloud subscription, ever