Here’s my dream stack for photos. IPTC (https://iptc.org/standards/photo-metadata/) is the global standard for photo management. Everyone from news organizations to photographers use it, so there’s a massive market. The cool thing about IPTC is that it embeds metadata within the images themselves so the images ARE the database. Captions, keyword tags, copyrights, rights usage terms, locations (nations to neighborhoods), etc. are embedded within the images.
The perfect photo stack would be one that can read IPTC from web sources, much like Feeds does; just a different language. I could drop a batch of photos on my server, give the photo stack the URL, and it would return the photos and their metadata. As seamless and fastest way of accessing photos as I can imagine.
Problem is, I have no coding skills. Is this something someone with those skills is interested in taking on? It could be really simple for someone who knows what they’re doing; it’s just reading a well-known and ubiquitous language. I use Photo Mechanic to manage my photo collection; it’s the IPTC-based global photo management news industry standard, and would be a great app to look at because what it does is pretty much exactly what the dream stack should do with server-saved images. And yeah, it brightly outshines Lightroom.
Any interest, anyone? As noted, it’s a massive market.