Tags would actually require very little effort. I already read the IPTC "keywords" exported by Aperture/Lightroom/Whatever, to determine which image should be f

Tags would actually require very little effort. I already read the IPTC "keywords" exported by Aperture/Lightroom/Whatever, to determine which image should be featured on the gallery cover (the first one with the "featured" keyword). As for hosting and business side of things, I thought about providing a service like that, but decided not to. It's a tough business: I don't want to deal with people posting dick pics or other kinds of porn, I don't want to go to jail because someone posts child porn to their account. And I definitely can't match the support level that companies like SmugMug provide. That business is mostly about support. I might release the software for everyone to use. It's not that complex anyway, you just have to make the right architectural decisions (this is what is really hard). I would probably have to change the thing so that it does everything on the server side, because right now image processing is done on the client (you run a perl script, then upload the directory that it produces). And to quickly answer those suggesting the GPL — if I do release it, it will not be the GPL. It will be one of the more permissive licenses. I don't want to block people's freedom to do anything they want with the software, and I think the threat of companies "taking stuff closed-source" is no longer a threat at all, because it makes no economic sense to do so. So if I do get around to it, it will be MIT or something similar. What could actually work well would be an Amazon AMI image, a Docker container, or something similar, that would be very easy to host.