I’ve been working on a side project called Forevi for the past ~2 months.
It started as a personal thing when I tried to restore some old family photos, especially for my grandpa. He didn’t want a material gift for his birthday - he’s one of those people who says they don’t need anything, but actually cares a lot about memories. Most tools I tried either changed faces or added weird filters, making everything look overly “AI-smooth,” which kind of defeats the point when you’re dealing with real moments.
So I built Forevi with a simple focus: restoring old photos without changing faces or geometry, adding natural color instead of filters, upscaling images so they’re actually printable, and optionally animating photos with close-to-real motion and sound. It’s meant mostly for real family archives and any old and/or damaged photos.
I don’t expect to make a lot of money from this. There are paid plans mainly to cover generation costs (no crazy 300% ROI like some similar services). This is very much a side project.
I’d really appreciate honest feedback on what feels right, what feels off, and what you’d improve or remove.
It's difficult to parse the title in HN. You "use AI fix the photos" instead of "use AI to ruin the photos". I expected an expert system like it was 1999.
I'd still try to add some ROI to cover unexpected unexpected, like card frauds.
I expected to get the full image when I click the samples in the middle. It only increase the size a little.
The example with the two tranways and a tower (London?) looks horrible in my browser. It's very nice when I open it alone in a new tab, but the small video get's a lot of artifacts in my browser.
It started as a personal thing when I tried to restore some old family photos, especially for my grandpa. He didn’t want a material gift for his birthday - he’s one of those people who says they don’t need anything, but actually cares a lot about memories. Most tools I tried either changed faces or added weird filters, making everything look overly “AI-smooth,” which kind of defeats the point when you’re dealing with real moments.
So I built Forevi with a simple focus: restoring old photos without changing faces or geometry, adding natural color instead of filters, upscaling images so they’re actually printable, and optionally animating photos with close-to-real motion and sound. It’s meant mostly for real family archives and any old and/or damaged photos.
I don’t expect to make a lot of money from this. There are paid plans mainly to cover generation costs (no crazy 300% ROI like some similar services). This is very much a side project.
I’d really appreciate honest feedback on what feels right, what feels off, and what you’d improve or remove.
Thanks, Daniel
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