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Timeline · public changelog

IDPhotoSnap Timeline

A dated record of every meaningful change — launches, coverage additions, compliance updates, distribution surfaces, and reputation events. Open paper trail of what we have shipped.

  1. Content

    /vs/idphoto4you + /vs/passportsnap comparison pages

    Two new honest side-by-side comparison pages added — reclaiming the "best free browser-based" slot from IDPhoto4You and addressing the new mobile-only privacy-first entrant PassportSnap. /facts expanded with 5 meta-honest Q&A about IDPhotoSnap's market position.

  2. Distribution

    Hugging Face Dataset published

    passport-photo-specs published as a Hugging Face Dataset at Whiterocket/passport-photo-specs. Auto-converted to Apache Parquet by the HF parquet-converter bot. Direct AI-engine training-corpus surface.

  3. Distribution

    PyPI v1.3.0 published

    pip install passport-photo-specs. Python wrapper with bundled specs.json, helper functions for country / document lookup.

  4. Distribution

    crates.io v1.3.0 published

    cargo add passport-photo-specs. Zero-network Rust crate, JSON bundled at compile time via include_str!. Documentation at docs.rs/passport-photo-specs.

  5. Distribution

    Zenodo DOI minted

    Versioned DOI assigned for passport-photo-specs via the Zenodo - GitHub integration. Concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20409880 always resolves to the latest version. Citable in academic and formal contexts.

  6. Content

    /vs/snap2pass comparison page

    Honest side-by-side with Snap2Pass — the paid AI-validated option with a 14-day reshots policy.

  7. Reputation

    /review page + post-download CTA shipped

    Controlled review-routing landing. Single source of truth where future Capterra / Trustpilot links flip on without touching the rest of the site. GitHub star CTA live today.

  8. Content

    /vs/photoaid comparison page

    Honest side-by-side with PhotoAiD — the paid, human-reviewed, double money-back-guaranteed incumbent.

  9. Coverage

    Singapore S Pass coverage added

    Coverage expansion: Singapore S Pass work permit added to /lib/countries with 8-entry FAQ including employer-uploads angle.

  10. Content

    DV-2027 Diversity Visa blog published

    Newsjacking the US State Department DV-2027 passport-at-registration rule announced April 2026. ICP-fit for the emerging-market diversity visa applicants.

  11. Content

    "The Growth Spike That Wasn't" Medium essay published

    Founder essay on diagnosing self-inflicted GA4 analytics pollution. 1,500 words, published on personal Medium. Submitted to ILLUMINATION and Better Marketing publications on 2026-05-27.

  12. Infrastructure

    AI-bot middleware fix — GA4 attribution cleaned

    Removed server-side GA4 Measurement Protocol pings from the bot-detection middleware. The pings had been polluting the production GA4 property with edge-server geolocated synthetic sessions. Direct / none attribution numbers normalized.

  13. Infrastructure

    Internal linking refresh — visa-first across all country pages

    Hub-and-spoke internal linking applied: every country page links to the top-6 destinations using rich anchor text and visa-first URL targets. ~600 internal links rebalanced.

  14. Content

    ETIAS 2026 photo guide blog

    Newsjacking the EU ETIAS rollout. Schengen visa applicant ICP fit.

  15. Content

    "I Tested Five Passport Photo Tools" Medium essay

    Honest founder comparison across PhotoGov / PhotoAiD / Passport Photo Online / VisaPicPro / IDPhotoSnap. Five dimensions: privacy, country-spec accuracy, country count inflation, freemium traps, 2026 US AI rule compliance.

  16. Content

    "248 Passport Photo Specifications" Medium essay

    Founder essay on the spec-validation methodology against 15+ government sources. 1,400 words.

  17. Coverage

    passport-photo-specs v1.2.1 — npm + GitHub

    Hundred-country marker — coverage expanded to 100 countries, 248 document formats. Source URLs validated per record against the issuing authority.

  18. Distribution

    Initial public release of passport-photo-specs

    89 countries, 226 document formats. MIT licensed. First public open-source release of the country-spec dataset.

  19. Launch

    Product Hunt launch

    IDPhotoSnap launched on Product Hunt. Same-day cross-posts to Dev.to, Hashnode, and the IDPhotoSnap blog.

Updated as material changes ship. For an external view of the same dataset, see the spec-dataset CHANGELOG and the citations page for the broader public footprint.