benjimouse

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

I went thru this seven years ago, leaving my startup which I'd been with for about 15. I still considered it a startup after all that time. The opportunity had long since been missed and all that remained was a long slow grind down to nothing. Which is exactly what has happened as it continued after my departure.

For me it was as close as I could imagine giving up a child would be like, but in hindsight it was the best choice and I grew hugely as a result.

benjimouse

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

All these alternatives people suggest are a full stack and have the same problems. 1. the network effect, 2. that users expect the client experience to be as complete as that they currently have.

What I want is a drop in compatible replacement backend. That would mean the existing clients could be supported with a base url change, and some disabling of functionality until it's supported. Bring across those 10 million users on the 3PAs. Pay for it by serving topic targeted ads over the api.

benjimouse

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

Well it's importing images from a card into the apple photos catalogue, and randomly scattering them thru the folders in it's database. That's kinda useless for anyone wanting to manage literally terabytes of images.

Otherwise it's really slick. Frustrating.

benjimouse

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

This is one I'd consider paying the $99 lifetime price for:

- Pixelmator cost me peanuts and I'm still using it ~15 years after buying it. I even purchased PM Pro because I felt guilty I'd gotten so much benefit of the original for so little.

- I gave up Lightroom because... adobe.

- Capture One:

  = is barely anything but rental software at this point. "Lifetime" price is ridiculous.
  
  = I'm tired of having to relearn a seemingly completely rebuilt UI every time I upgrade.
  
  = Catalog system makes it practically impossible organize your photos outside of the app. (all my raws up till I switched to C1 are in year/month/day folders, afterwards it's single folder blobs dated roughly at the time I ran out of diskspace and had to purge it to offline storage). The whole paradigm of how it manages photos sucks imo.

As long as it can read my Sony A1 raws and has reasonable shadow recovery I'm in.

benjimouse

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

B12 and B6 for vegan me. As I'm male, and live somewhere sunny, I think iron and d3 are less of an issue. B6 has been linked to anxiety, so it's mainly an experiment to see if it helps.

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