Frustrated by NAS photo apps — build easy self-hosted intelligent photo manager

Frustrated by NAS photo apps — build easy self-hosted intelligent photo manager targets a $12.0B = 200M households x $60/year average willingness-to-pay for private photo cloud and tools total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% annual growth in self-hosted/consumer privacy tools segment.

Key trends driving demand: Privacy-first computing -- Consumers and regulators are shifting away from big-cloud defaults, increasing demand for private/photo-first storage.; On-device/edge ML -- Lightweight models enable local face/object tagging and search without cloud dependency.; NAS & home server adoption -- More consumers buy NAS for home backups, creating a captive install channel for packaged apps.; Open-source maturity -- OSS projects provide rapid building blocks reducing time-to-market for complete solutions..