@uint8_t I take some shortcuts in service of a system that's more manageable to me:
* No hierarchy, just top-level folders to group similar photos (e.g. trips, events, photoshoots)
* ISO-8601 date prefix on folders
* Multi-day events just get grouped under one day, don't overthink it
* Catch-all month folders for misc photos
* Photos get uploaded from my phone to an "Inbox" on my Synology NAS automatically (graph counts items in the Inbox)
* Periodically sort things (graph go down??)
How many tech startups in 2019 could be built with Airtable and Zapier alone? Spoiler: a lot.
Sure, you may need one or two others. Or you may prefer any of the great alternatives. (Hi Quip, IFTTT, Transposit!) Regardless, these kinds of prosumer, automation-friendly tools are truly great now, especially for building service oriented products. You can ship MVPs on them that comfortably serve your first 10k+ users, and likely more, with little to no actual code. Thatās stunning.
Early cloud computing was a big shift that dramatically reduced the cost of bootstrapping a tech application. App stores on phones were another. This may be the third. Add in the largest pool of available capital ever, and thereās never been a better time to start a tech company.
(Having said that, founding a startup is still a brutal, unforgiving, and all-consuming. That way lie dragons, as always. Entrepreneur beware.)