Building a "Time Machine" app to preserve local history - testing the concept 🕰️

Hey everyone! I've been working on a project that's close to my heart - Vremeplov (Croatian for "Time Machine"), a digital platform for preserving and sharing local history of towns and villages. The problem I'm trying to solve: Every town, every village has stories that get lost over time. Grandma's old photos sitting in a drawer, grandpa's black-and-white album from when the train station was built, stories about how the main square used to look... What Vremeplov would enable:

📸 Share old photos and videos from your hometown 🗺️ Interactive map - explore different locations 🏘️ Localized feeds for each community 👥 Tag people in photos and connect families 💬 Comment and engage around local history 🔍 Search by location and time period

Why starting with Croatia? I want to test the concept with local communities first, focus on Croatian culture and history, and build a solid foundation before expanding to other countries. Example post: "This is the beginning of our train station construction in 1890. In the photo is my great-grandfather. If you recognize anyone else, please tag them. Thanks and have a nice day!" The vision:

Emigrants reconnecting with their homeland Families sharing generational stories Local historians preserving community heritage Young people learning about their roots

Currently in development - building core features with AI assistance (Lovable for coding, Claude for brainstorming). Using React + TypeScript. As a QA tester with dev experience, this is my chance to get back into active programming. What do you think about this idea?

Would you use such an app? Do you have old photos you'd want to share? Can you see potential in this kind of platform? What would be most important to you in such an app? Know of any similar existing projects?

If there's enough positive response, I'd love to share more details about the development process! 🙏 Every comment and suggestion is pure gold to me!