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How Do You Manage Your Photos? / Comment gérez-vous vos photos ?

A 5-minute survey for photographers / Une enquête de 5 minutes pour les photographes

📷 How Do You Manage Your Photos? / 📷 Comment gérez-vous vos photos ?

I'm researching how photographers manage large photo libraries — what works, what doesn't, and what takes too much time.

No sales pitch. No right or wrong answers. Just your experience.

⏱️ About 5 minutes

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Je cherche à comprendre comment les photographes gèrent leurs grandes bibliothèques de photos — ce qui fonctionne, ce qui ne fonctionne pas et ce qui prend trop de temps.

Pas de discours de vente. Pas de bonnes ou de mauvaises réponses. Juste votre expérience.

⏱️ Environ 5 minutes

About You / À propos de vous

What type of photography do you do? / Quel type de photographie pratiquez-vous ?

Roughly how many photos do you have? / Environ combien de photos avez-vous ?

Less than 5,000 / Moins de 5 000

5,000–25,000 / 5 000–25 000

25,000–100,000 / 25 000–100 000

100,000–500,000 / 100 000–500 000

500,000+ / 500 000+

I don't know / Je ne sais pas

What best describes you? / Que faites-vous de mieux ?

Hobbyist / Amateur

Serious hobbyist / Amateur passionné

Semi-professional / Semi-professionnel

Professional / Professionnel

Full-time professional / Professionnel à temps plein

Your Library / Votre bibliothèque

Where are your photos stored? / Où sont stockées vos photos ?

What do you currently use to manage your photos? / Qu'utilisez-vous actuellement pour gérer vos photos ?

How easy is it to find an old photo? / Est-il facile de retrouver une ancienne photo ?

The Problem / Le problème

What's your biggest frustration with managing your photos? / Quelle est votre plus grande frustration dans la gestion de vos photos ?

Which problems do you experience? / Quels problèmes rencontrez-vous ?

Think about your last big shoot. What took the most time afterwards? / Pensez à votre dernière grosse séance photo. Qu'est-ce qui a pris le plus de temps ensuite ?

Which ONE feature would save you the most time? / Quelle fonctionnalité vous ferait gagner le plus de temps ?

How important is this to you: “I can keep my original photographs in my existing folders/drives.”

How important is local / offline operation?

If this existed today, would you try it?

What might stop you from using it?

What would make you switch from your current solution?

🚀 Help shape ClickVault

The concept I'm researching is called ClickVault.

It's a local-first photo-management system for large personal photo libraries, designed to work with the files you already own.

Would you like to test an early version?

🚀 Yes

🤔 Maybe

Not right now

Would you be willing to spend 10 minutes showing me how you currently manage your photos?

Yes

Maybe

If you could fix ONE thing about your current workflow, what would it be?

💡 Imagine this

Imagine a photo-management application that works on top of your existing storage. Your original RAW/JPEG files stay where they are. The application creates a fast catalogue and lightweight previews around them. It could: ⚡ Browse huge libraries quickly 🔎 Search your entire collection 👤 Find people and subjects 📍 Search locations 🔁 Detect duplicates and similar photos 🤖 Help select your best photos 🔒 Process locally and privately 🗄️ Work with external drives and NAS Goal: Make a large photo library feel as easy to browse as a small one — without taking control of your original files.