I Built a Wildlife Photography App With Claude — And It's Free!

Posted on 12/09/2026
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Claude Code videos are everywhere right now, but Toby Jermyn is putting a practical spin on the trend. In this video, Toby walks you through how he used Claude to build a free, privacy-first wildlife photography tool: the EXIF Metadata Viewer.

🔗 Try the EXIF Metadata Viewer for Free Here - https://link.pangolinphoto.com/Exif-Data-App

If you are tired of digging through camera metadata or uploading precious JPEGs to potentially sketchy third-party websites just to share your camera settings and editing steps on social media, this app solves the problem entirely in your browser without your files ever leaving your computer.

While we fully concede that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity, as with all new technologies, there will always be both upsides and downsides. This video is not intended to be flippant in any regard, and as a company, we hope that the developers of this amazing technology put in place the necessary guardrails that benefit humanity as a whole. - Toby


Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction: Techno-Joy and Coding with Claude Code
01:15 - Why Built-In EXIF Extraction is Broken for Wildlife Photographers
02:02 - Introducing the EXIF Metadata Viewer (How It Works Locally in Your Browser)
02:43 - Extracting Camera Settings, Metadata, and Lightroom Editing Steps
03:07 - Privacy, Safety, and Why Your Images Never Leave Your Device
03:28 - Why Sharing Technical Data Helps the Wildlife Photography Community

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