Our Pinterest
Boards you curate, public or secret.
Our Pinterest is boards you run yourself. Make a public board anyone can read, or a secret one only you can see, and save pictures to it. When you find a picture on someone else's public board, save it to one of your own — a re-pin shares the picture rather than copying it.
A board is the unit of the app: a named collection you curate, with a visibility that decides who may read it. That is a different shape from the feed, where a post is a broadcast that stays, and from a snap, where a picture is a private message on a clock. A pin is one picture on one board, and the move the whole product is built around is the re-pin — saving a picture you found onto a board of your own, which shares the source's bytes instead of duplicating them and survives the source being removed.
Step by step
How to save your first pin
Every step is the real one in your own install. Nothing is sent to a third party, and every picture stays on your own disk.
- STEP 01
Make a board
Open Our Pinterest and make a board. Give it a name and choose who can see it: public, so anyone with the link may read it, or secret, so only you can.
- STEP 02
Save a picture to it
On the board, pick a picture, give it a title, and save. The picture is stored on your own disk. A pin needs a picture — it is not a text post.
- STEP 03
Re-pin what you find
On a public board you can read, use “Save to…” on a pin to copy it onto one of your own boards. The picture is shared, not duplicated.
- STEP 04
Archive instead of deleting
When a board is finished, archive it to stop new pins while keeping it readable. Delete it only when you want its pictures’ bytes freed for good.
What it does
Collections you control
Public or secret, your call
A public board is readable by anyone — it is your own public surface, like your feed. A secret board is yours alone: not “members only”, only you, and a signed-in stranger is refused it just as a signed-out one is.
Re-pin what you find
Found a picture on a public board you like? Save it to one of your own. A re-pin shares the original's picture rather than copying it, so nothing is duplicated — and it stays yours even if the original is later removed.
You only touch your own boards
Only a board's owner may add to it, rename it, re-scope it or delete it. Only the person who saved a pin may remove it. The rule lives in the app itself, not in the buttons, so a route cannot get it wrong.
Archiving is not deleting
Archive a board to stop it growing while keeping everything in it readable — a collection you curated should be able to rest without losing what is in it. Deleting frees the pictures’ bytes from your disk for good.
The bytes are shared, and counted
When a re-pin shares a picture, the file is kept until the last pin that needs it is gone. Removing one pin never blanks another's copy, and removing the last one really frees the disk — the delete reports the bytes it reclaimed.
Nothing leaves your server
The pictures are rows and files in your own database and your own disk. There is no third party, no account to connect and no copy anywhere else.
Why ours
Why Our Pinterest over Pinterest
The same familiar job, on your own server. Here is the honest difference, decision by decision — and where the original is genuinely ahead, this says so.
| The decision | The hosted original | Our Pinterest |
|---|---|---|
| Who holds the pictures | Theirs:Your images sit on their servers, and their terms decide what may stay there. A policy change or an action on your account can take a picture off a board you curated. | Ours:Every picture is a file on your own disk and a row in your own database. Nothing is uploaded anywhere else, and nobody but you can remove it. |
| What decides what you see | Theirs:The home feed is ranked for you — a recommendation system picks which of the pictures you saved to show, and in what order. | Ours:There is no ranked feed. A board shows its pins in the order you saved them, and nothing reorders them or buries one to keep you scrolling. |
| Saving a picture you found | Theirs:A re-pin points at their copy of the image. If the original is removed, your pin can lose its picture or break. | Ours:A re-pin shares the bytes with the original, on your own server, and keeps working even if the board it came from is later deleted. |
| Who can read a board | Theirs:Public boards are readable by anyone; secret boards are hidden from other people but are still stored on their servers and still subject to their rules. | Ours:A public board is readable by anyone — a real public surface you can share. A secret board is readable only by you: not by others on your install, and not by a signed-in stranger. Both live only on your disk. |
| What it costs | Theirs:Free to use — the price is your attention, and how far a picture travels is set by their ranking. | Ours:Free to run, with no per-board or per-pin charge and no developer key to apply for. The only ceiling is your own disk, and it is stated plainly. |
| If you ever leave | Theirs:Your boards live inside their product, and getting them out depends on their export tools and their format. | Ours:Your boards are rows in your own database. Back them up, move them, or read them with any tool — there is nothing to request and no format to be granted. |
Your freedom
What you get back on your own server
These are not features. They are what stops happening once the app runs on hardware you own.
No algorithm between you and your pins
A board is a list you made, shown as you made it. There is no ranked feed deciding which of your own saved pictures to surface first.
No one can suspend your boards
There is no account at a third party to be locked out of, no appeal to win, and no policy change that quietly removes a picture you saved. Your boards go when you decide they go.
No approval, no key, no quota
It works the moment your install does. There is no developer application to submit, no review to wait weeks for, and no rate limit deciding how much you may save.
Free to run, and it stays free
The platform is free, so there is no per-board price, no plan to outgrow and no renewal that can be repriced under you. Your only cost is the server you already own.
Your pictures are yours to keep
Back them up, move them, or read them with any tool — they are ordinary files and rows you own, not a copy held somewhere else under someone else's terms.
Questions
Questions people ask
Straight answers, and where something is not built yet it says so.
What is Our Pinterest?
Who can see a board?
What is a re-pin?
Does removing a pin free the disk?
Can I stop a board growing without losing it?
Are there any limits I should know about?
Is this a copy of Pinterest, or something of its own?
Our Pinterest is ready on your install
It is part of Anamean and it runs on your own server — nothing to register, nothing to approve.