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Latent
A film camera, not a camera app
36 frames per roll, a small viewfinder, no preview, no delete. Finished rolls develop for 48 hours, then come back as a contact sheet. Real film emulation, all on-device: no accounts, no feed, no tracking. The camera is free; film is bought by the roll.
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Ive, a solo developer in Zadar, Croatia. Latent is my fifth app, and the first one designed to be used less. The idea came from watching people photograph sunsets they never actually watched: shoot, check, reshoot, post, and the light is gone. My first fix was going to be a phone case with a viewfinder hole. It ended up as software, because the discipline turned out to be the product. So Latent borrows film's rules instead of its look. You get 36 frames per roll. You frame through a small viewfinder on an otherwise black screen. There is no preview, no retake, no delete. When the roll is done, it develops for 48 hours. Then the whole thing comes back at once, as a contact sheet. The part I'm proudest of is what's not in it: no zoom, no filters, no feed, no accounts, no servers, no analytics. Photos develop on your phone and save to your Photos at full resolution. Each film stock is a real emulation recipe (tone curve, channel mix, grain, halation) running as GPU shaders at develop time, not a filter you drag over a photo. The economics are film's too: the camera is free and comes with a roll of NOVA 200 every month. Extra rolls cost 0,99 €, like film used to. One stock, AURORA 800 (the summer night stock), is limited and retires when summer ends. The first roll is on us. I'd genuinely love to hear what you think, especially if you find the 48-hour wait unbearable. That means it's working.
About Latent on Product Hunt
“A film camera, not a camera app”
Latent was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #119 on the daily leaderboard. 36 frames per roll, a small viewfinder, no preview, no delete. Finished rolls develop for 48 hours, then come back as a contact sheet. Real film emulation, all on-device: no accounts, no feed, no tracking. The camera is free; film is bought by the roll.
On the analytics side, Latent competes within iOS, Design Tools and Photography — topics that collectively have 515.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Latent performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Latent?
Latent was hunted by Ive Grbić. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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