elodie

I founded 2 photo startups (2004 and 2012). My second startup was focused on data portability and was open source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trovebox After failing to integrate the software into Western Digital's MyCloud NAS line of productions, I left and decided to try something different. I created a photo management tool that could feed into other photo programs. It's open source and available on github. https://getelodie.com https://github.com/jmathai/elodie I started off using it with Google Photos. Explained here, https://medium.com/swlh/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-go... I've since switched to using it with Synology Photos. 8 years and counting.

I have an 8 year old app that reminds me a lot of this article. Something that's worked really well for me was that I created a plugin feature and most new features are actually plugins. This lets me add capabilities without touching or adding logic to the core code. Last night I added SQLite support as a plugin. 2 code files and one is unit tests. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/pull/443/files I don't know if this is the best approach but it's worked better than others in my 20+ years of writing software.