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I'm a solo developer and recently launched a small Android side project called Snapgate . The idea came from something pretty mundane. My Google Photos library was full of photos I never really wanted there: receipts, parking spots, Wi-Fi passwords, whiteboards, things in shops, photos I needed for 10 minutes... I always told myself I'd clean them up later. Obviously, I didn't. Google Photos lets you choose which folders to back up, but everything I shoot with my camera ends up in the Camera folder. What I really wanted was a decision after taking the photo but before sending it to the cloud . So I built Snapgate. The flow is deliberately simple: Take a photo → notification appears → Upload / Discard Upload sends it to Google Photos. Discard doesn't delete anything — the photo simply stays on the phone. If you take several photos quickly, they're grouped into one notification. I also added temporary modes, like keeping everything local for the next 8 hours. Building it was more annoying than I expected The biggest issue wasn't Google Photos. It was Android manufacturers killing background processes. On my Xiaomi, Android happily told me my service was running while Xiaomi had effectively frozen it. I spent a night debugging something that wasn't really a bug in my code. I eventually added detection and onboarding to help users disable the relevant battery restrictions. Privacy was another thing I wanted to keep simple. There's no backend, photos don't pass through my servers, and I didn't add ads, analytics or crash reporting. I launched it about a week and a half ago I initially promoted it through a few Android/Google Photos communities on Reddit. It's still tiny — roughly a dozen users currently have it installed — but I've had 2 purchases already , which surprised me because the first users haven't even reached the end of the 14-day trial yet. The business model is intentionally boring: 14 days free → €4 one-time → no subscription. I'm now trying to figure out distribution. Reddit gave me the first users, but that initial traffic has naturally died down, so I'm experimenting with short videos and reaching out to smaller Android creators next. Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snapgate.app I'd particularly love feedback from other builders on the positioning. Does the problem make sense immediately, or would you explain it differently?   submitted by   /u/jfjalburquerque [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/30 22:53:20