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The 1k true fans approach is the most suitable one for most people looking to build a business or income stream. It lets you hyper focus on a niche that may not be well served by more general purpose solutions. But don’t let the 1k number fool you. Getting even 1 true fan is incredibly difficult. But the idea is that if you can get 1, you can find your 2nd, then 4th, 8th, 16th, 32nd, 64th, 128th, 256th, 512th and finally your 1k. It’s a tractable number of steps. Hard, but something you can wrap your brain around and small enough to start focusing. A personal example is that I’ve a few hundred passionate users of my photo management software [1]. It’s open source so they aren’t paying for it. I’ve tried a few ideas without much success to provide a fiscally beneficial aspect of it - without much luck yet. But it remains one of the best op

I stopped using Google Photos in favor of Synology Photos which comes pretty close in terms of functionality and polish. Google Photos is excellent. Synology Photos is really good. And this seems to be a worthwhile tradeoff for me. Disclaimer: I founded 2 photo startups and have documented the solution I've finally landed on and have been using/evolving for 7 years now. 1. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie 2. https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut... 3. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal... 4. https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin... 5. https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-year-of-using-an-automated-p...

EXIF is the greatest thing about photos and videos. It makes every photo a tiny portable database of itself. A library of photos is a collection of these tiny databases which share a schema. Doesn’t matter what device takes the photo - and it’s been like this for decades. I wrote a program that’s been organizing my photos based on EXIF for 7+ years [1]. I’ve also blogged about my reasoning (have co-founded 2 photo startups prior) [2, 3, 4, 5]. I’ve since moved off Google Photos to Synology Photos but haven’t written about that yet. Relying on EXIF makes that super easy. 1. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie 2. https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut... 3. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal... 4. https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin... 5. https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-