How Picsolv Started

Our mission

What we do can be summed up in one sentence. Event photos should reach the people they belong to. A runner should see their own race photos in seconds. A wedding guest should not have to scroll through hundreds of frames to find themselves. A festival attendee should open the gallery and immediately see "I am here" rather than searching for it.

We see this as memories getting where they deserve to go.

Our vision

An event is a memory. Reaching that memory should be a job for technology. Picsolv exists to build a world where event photos can flow freely between organizer and attendee. From weddings to concerts, from marathons to corporate gatherings, we want a workflow where every photo finds its right person.

We believe we will help reshape event photography over the next decade.

The technology behind it

Picsolv runs on a face recognition engine built on AWS Rekognition. Matches above a 95 percent confidence threshold are shown to the attendee. We keep this threshold deliberately high so wrong matches do not happen. Showing a photo to the wrong person is worse than not showing it at all.

Every selfie upload goes through a server-side liveness check. This means no one can hold up another person's photo and access their gallery. Liveness detection sits at the core of our security flow.

Videos work the same way. With AWS Lambda, videos up to 5GB are processed automatically. A frame is extracted every 2 seconds, faces are indexed with timestamps, and when an attendee taps on a moment they appear in, the player jumps directly to that second.

For professional photographers we offer SFTP and FTP upload endpoints. Each event zone gets its own credentials. A wedding can have separate ceremony and reception zones. A festival can split VIP and general admission without mixing the photo streams.

How we work

Picsolv is a single product that serves two different use cases.

Picsolv Share is the photo distribution use case. The organizer creates the event, attendees join the album with a QR code, photos get uploaded, AI face matching kicks in, and every guest finds their own shots. Simple, direct, fast.

Picsolv Partner is the analytics and demographics use case. Same event flow, with audience age distribution, gender breakdown, sentiment, peak hours, and other data layered on top. PDF reports get auto-generated for sponsors. Built for the organizer who wants to plan the next event with data instead of guesses.

Same panel, same product, same infrastructure. The user simply chooses which side they need from their profile.

Security and privacy by design

Picsolv is built around GDPR and KVKK compliance. Face data stays scoped to its event and gets removed when the event closes. No face data ever moves to another event or another user. Operating in Turkey makes KVKK mandatory. Having European attendees makes GDPR mandatory. We built for both from day one.

All media delivery happens over presigned links that expire in one hour. There are no public buckets and no permanent links. An attendee accesses their photos, the link expires, and the next access generates a new one. This design makes data leakage practically impossible.

What comes next

Picsolv was founded in 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey. Our team is small but moves fast. In the coming period we will add logo detection, scene analysis, and live stream face indexing. The bigger goal is to make event photography about more than taking pictures. It should also be about getting those pictures to the right person, every time.

If you organize events, shoot events, or simply want to find your race photos in seconds, Picsolv was built for you.