Alex Kretzschmar

But...

I was like, well, I bought my family for Christmas when my daughter was born five years ago, some of those little Google picture frames.

And so we just had this shared album where I just dropped photos in every few months and then it would update their picture frames remotely.

And I'm like, oh, oops, I guess I've just broken.

So I've just broken that workflow for them.

So just a favorites, basically.

Effectively, yeah.

And so I came across this project called Image Frame.

And this lets you turn any device, because it's just a web view, so you can run it on Android, iOS, and Apple TV, and Android TV, just a web browser even.

And it lets you turn any of those devices into essentially a Google Photos frame.

So I can just drop pictures into an image album on my self-hosted server, connect this Android tablet that I'm going to give to my family for Christmas back over tailscale to my house,

And the same functionality exists, but it's all completely self-hosted and completely... I own the whole shebang.

That's what I love about this stuff.

Getting people excited about that real-world use case.

It's like, yeah, Tailscale's cool.

Image is cool and all that.

All this stuff in isolation.

People don't wake up in the morning and go, you know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to sign up for a new VPN and...

it's like the now what problem, uh, how do I actually use this stuff?