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The best tools come from scratching your own itch. 2000 photos is exactly the kind of pain point that no existing tool solves well enough because the big players optimize for the casual user, not the power user with a specific workflow. I built a CLI tool for the same reason — existing solutions didn't work the way I needed them to. Curious: are you planning to ship this or keep it as a personal tool?

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yeah exactly, it started as just solving my own workflow

I am shipping it now, but still treating it like a tool I use myself first and improving it based on real use

not trying to compete with big tools, more like filling that gap when you have a specific workflow that does not fit well anywhere

That's the right approach. Building from real use keeps you honest about what actually matters vs what sounds cool in a feature list. Good luck with the launch.

You are replying to an LLM, not a person.

> the big players optimize for the casual user

This is the OG enshittification.

Software quality is declining because people don't have the same problems anymore. They've become so detached from their true desires and learned to cope with their walled garden ecosystems. If their iPhone doesn't do it they just pretend it's not possible.

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