Findercraft

Findercraft

Through the finder

See which craft choices land — through the finder, in the darkroom.

Findercraft is Instagram analytics for photographers who treat imagery as craft. It reconnects audience engagement with camera settings (EXIF), color and light, and narrative format — weighting saves and shares via an Inspiration Index — in a quiet darkroom for your data, not a vanity dashboard.

Instagram shows the applause. This tray puts the craft back beside it — then banks the history the feed forgets.

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On the tray

Recorded

Sample plate · 35mm evening walk
Focal
35mm
Aperture
ƒ1.8
Shutter
1/250
ISO
400

Inspiration Index

142

Saves & shares weighted over empty likes.

Palette · five swatches

Illustrative readouts — your archive fills the real plates after sync.

How it develops

Three passes through the tray.

  1. 01

    Sync the contact sheet

    Pull frames and insights into a local cache on a schedule. Pages never call Instagram on render — the tray is already developed.

  2. 02

    Match the craft

    Upload originals in the browser. EXIF is parsed, matched by capture time and perceptual hash, then only the derived settings are kept.

  3. 03

    Read what resonates

    Explore by lens, palette, and format. Bank daily snapshots so history outlives Meta's short retention window.

The craft

What Instagram strips away.

Recover EXIF from your originals, read color and light from each frame, and keep the story format — photo, carousel, or reel — beside the engagement that followed. Explore which lenses, palettes, and crops actually earn saves, not just a scroll-past like.

The measure

Intent over vanity.

The Inspiration Index weights saves and shares above empty likes — signals that someone meant to return, or cared enough to pass the frame along. Daily snapshots bank cumulative metrics so your history can outlive Meta's short retention window; gains read as today minus yesterday.

The contact sheet

Share the journey, not the score.

Opt in to a public contact sheet for peers — milestones and craft signature by link. Raw funnel signals, demographics, and daily vanity stay in the darkroom. Learning from each other's practice, never a leaderboard.

Invitation only

Access is allow-listed while the darkroom stays single-operator first. The manifesto and legal plates are public — read about, privacy, contact.

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