Any photographers on Indie-Hackers? Need some feedback.

Being a photographer, I look for faster data transfer on location which is related to hardware. Most of the fastest hardware ( drives ) are too expensive

This is intersting. As a former professional photographer and growth hacker, I've been thinking of something in this space as well around image storing and some of the challenges there. Would love to chat and compare notes to see if niching down to an idea is worthwhile.

I'm an amateur/side hustle landscape photographer.

1. For RAWs I use ruggedized SSDs and a paid Google Photos/Drive account
2. ^, Amazon Photos is certainly intriguing. Google Photos provides some automated processing that cuts down on my workflow time on certain post-processing. I'm paying $2/month.
3. As a mainly landscape/wildlife photographer I'm rarely near even a cellular connection for a week so most cloud storage is useless until I get home. Managing photo/video backups while off-grid is the main challenge.

I'm an amateur photographer (translation: I take photos for my own pleasure and make no money from them).

I store them all on a NAS which does period sync to a versioned Backblaze b2 bucket. It's super cost effective and was pretty easy to setup (but then again I'm technical).

There are more turn-key solutions out there for less technical people willing to pay more per month and those come with other perks like the ability to view your backed up photos as an online gallery.

I don't have enough space on my PC's local harddrive to put all these photos for sync up to a OneDrive/AmazonDrive/GoogleDrive/Dropbox type solution. And then not all of those support versioning anyway. For example if an image gets corrupted the last thing you want your "backup" solution to do is to auto-sync that corruption and replace the cloud hosted file with a corrupted one, at least with versioning you can always grab the non-corrupted historic snapshot.

Backblaze offer a reliable, secure, versioned solution that integrates easily with my Synology NAS (it's got a built-in sync tool for Backblaze). But this solution alone doesn't give me a way to share these images with my friends and family via an online gallery.

If there was a dedicated solution that didn't cost much more than Backblaze and works well with my NAS, I would consider switching.

Sure thing. Running a photography company is basically my full-time hustle. (See my profile for more info)

1: We use Amazon photos.
2: See above
3: None

I don't think there is much of a market for backups for professional photographers. Amazon and Google are just way too good! With Amazon it's free with Prime, they let us store an unlimited amount of Raws. On top of that, they are all searchable! It would be really hard to convince me to move to something else.

However, I do think there is room to innovate on the client delivery side. We use PixieSet and it's okay. It's definitely doing the job we need it too, but I wish it was more integrated with 3rd party apps. It's also very focused on selling prints, it'd be great if there was a platform more focused on free digital delivery.

I would definitely look into something like that over backups. Backups are hard to sell, because they provide no value until it's too late.

I use external hard drives. But amateur and professional photographers alike all have to be mindful and more focused in our approach both in both taking the photograph in the moment and then how we save them and the whole editing process. The point isn't ever to take and store a million photos. It should be to get and save the photos we want.