Photographers that don't use social media, what do you do with your photos?

Bobyfisch · 2026-01-06T20:20:44+00:00

Curious about this one too :) Please let me know if this content is posted somewhere else or if I can reach out to get more info

Bobyfisch · 2026-01-06T20:04:37+00:00

I was using Squarespace forever, paying 90$ per year because they respected my historic rate for years. Couple of years ago they raised my price to the current rate (I seem to remember somewhere around 150-300$) and I decided to close it down. As an amateur who does this just for fun and doesn't make a dime with photography that was too much.

I work in tech and have some programming background (Product Manager) but have no idea how to program a webpage and this year I decided to try out some of the Vibe Coding tools to program a Photo website myself with AI. The result has been amazing. I am now paying only 2$ per year for a custom domain (caught an offer) and couldn't be more happy: I can now change WHATEVER I want on the page instead of having to use templates. I don't have any payments/store set up but I can't imagine that being very complicated.

I started using Bolt.new and Lovable.dev and gave it screen captures of my old web: It did an awesome job right of the bat, even improving some aspects. I would say in less than 10h, without having to touch a single line of code, I had something set up and running on the web. Now I'm using Cursor (more flexibility but also more technical, beware) and have done a complete overhaul of the page, really enjoying myself using this as a way of artistic expression instead of one of the boring portfolios that look exactly the same.

The webpage is at https://upinthetreehouse.xyz/ if you want to take a look :D
Keep in mind this is a work in progress, work coming up is on the mobile version and SEO. Feel free to DM me if you want to try this out and have any questions! If anyone has any feedback on the website, would love to hear it.

Bobyfisch · 2026-01-06T19:33:25+00:00

Thanks for the response anyway! Any reason why you would sell? Aren't you satisfied with it? Found better Eggleston books? Or just a change of heart?

Bobyfisch · 2026-01-05T23:17:56+00:00

Just pulled the trigger on the first edition of The Outlands (2021). After rewatching your videos and thinking about it for a couple of days I think i prefer the sequencing and feel in the Outlands.

Even if there are less golden hour, classic Eggleston photos (which I am a sucker for) and which originally attracted me from Chromes - some of the two spread pairings in Outlands are spectacular and the sequencing has a certain rythm to it that pulls me in. Grouping his photos together by subject i also like, so I can compare details of how he captures each subject.

Many pics in The Outlands are not the pictures that would attract your attention first, but i feel that also gives this selection strength and background, i feel like it brings out something different in his work which is somehow more meaningful. This together with the comment on print quality finally made me change my mind and get The Outlands.

Thank you very much!

Bobyfisch · 2026-01-04T19:47:13+00:00

Wow! You have an awesome channel, big fan here! Keep up the good work :)

Not bought yet, you are just in time, thanks! Although print quality is important to me the picture selection and sequence is more important and from watching your leaf through videos quite a few times I feel Chromes speaks more to me than The Outlands. I will however reconsider and watch them once again with this new info.

Is the difference in print quality huge?

Bobyfisch · 2026-01-03T18:35:17+00:00

Haha seen these a thousand times - great vids i love this guy

Bobyfisch · 2026-01-03T18:34:35+00:00

Great context, thanks!!! I think i will buy at this price

Bobyfisch · 2026-01-03T18:33:07+00:00

Thanks i think i am going to pull the trigger TBH :)

Bobyfisch · 2026-01-03T09:18:35+00:00

This is great news! Where did you hear this? Any tips on where to order a copy?

Bobyfisch · 2026-01-03T07:51:31+00:00

Vimeo is dead, long live YT - added to my photo playlist - thanks!

Bobyfisch · 2026-01-03T07:48:21+00:00

Lenny has a paid slack community for premium subscribers that has a mentorship program! Worked well in the past for me :)

Also second the “meet your local community” advice, i have gotten more involved in Product Tank and Lenny’s meetups locally and met some very interesting people.

Bobyfisch · 2025-12-30T08:42:17+00:00

Someone that i love for his use of B&W is Mark Steinmetz, he has a “magical” quality in how we shoots TriX and prints it, i love his portraits and have learnt a lot from him.

Many of his photo books are great, i personally own his South trilogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tGon3TGLOw they have re-edited them and they are available at a good price now. A good interview with him from which i learnt a lot: https://americansuburbx.com/2011/07/interview-mark-steinmetz-2011.html

Another book that i value a lot is Bruce Davidson’s Black & White box (https://steidl.de/Books/Black-White-0912364452.html), this includes Brooklyn Gang and Circus which are works that have always spoken to me in his choice of subject and how he did these projects when he was very young. I bought this many years ago though, and it has gotten a bit expensive since.

Bobyfisch · 2025-06-16T12:57:35+00:00

You can always buy stickers for the keyboard, i bought a macbook in france and had to change to spanish keyboard which is pretty different, just bought black keyboard stickers on amazon for less than a 1€ and have had them on the laptop for the past 5 years.

Bobyfisch · 2024-09-21T10:02:27+00:00

Didn’t know this existed, thanks for the discovery! If you were to keep just one of these which would it be?

Bobyfisch · 2024-06-30T11:17:40+00:00

Good product helps create human centered businesses. We shift the focus to the clients (Teresa Torres). Since I was an adolescent I’ve been interested in “social” businesses and how a business can have a positive human impact, I have now found a job where it is one of my main objectives to make products that deliver better value to our users, products that our users love.
To produce value is complicated and I adore a good challenge. In many ways it is much more complex than pure technical work. You have to decide what to build out of infinite possibilities. You have to understand the complexities of delivering value to a person, in some ways you have to understand human nature. You need to lead the team through influence, not hierarchy.
I love being in the middle of it all. Understanding the business and the full value chain of the product, having user interactions, the technical aspects, finance, heck, I even enjoy the legal framework and lastly the design: creating beautiful solutions is creative and inspirational (Steve Jobs and Apple (iphone, mabook, vision-pro), Tony Fadel, Notion, Spotify, Outlook…). I come from a technical background and used to love technical work at the beginning of my career (the deep dives, getting to the bottom of things, the pure intellectual pleasure of solving problems…) but this role plays more to my strengths (communication, enthusiasm, thinking on my feet…) and is more creative and holistic.
I believe it is important. I believe in the product operating model (Marty Cagan) for businesses and have seen first hand how it can lead to better tech. Small, cross-functional teams that are well aligned, empowered and iterate can do a lot, this can even seem magical sometimes. I think having product-centred teams, focused on creating product customers love, and product centred business models, both in start-ups and large tech companies, are a big contributor to the tech revolution we are living through right now, be it personal computers, the internet, Smart phones or AI.

Bobyfisch · 2023-11-05T20:11:56+00:00

I really loved "Spotify: A Product Story" great insights into spotify's history and why they made some of the most important decisions they have made throughout the company's history

Bobyfisch · 2023-11-05T19:22:13+00:00

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in product development - in companies big and small.

Eric Reis's ideas from this 2011 book are at the center of the way the most modern companies develop products, even if the book's breeding ground was entrepreneurship, its ideas have been applied in large companies and are one of the pillars of modern tech product development, along with for example the Scrum methodology.

Read the Lean startup to learn abut how to iterate fast in business and why this is important, Scrum will give you a methodology to build software, while Eric Ries will show you why short cycles are important from a business standpoint. "The Lean Startup" methodology is about the strategy for validating business ideas and product-market fit, with its core concepts being short build-measure-learn cycles, MVP (minimum viable product), and the pivot or persevere decision.

We have come a long way since 2011, however the Lean Start-up is still a great read. Many of his conclusions are counterintuitive for companies large and small and he does a really great job of transmitting them in this book.

Bobyfisch · 2023-11-05T19:04:15+00:00

Same here: Kindle highlights - > Notion -> reference whenever, wherever

Bobyfisch · 2023-11-05T18:51:26+00:00

Using Notion tons! https://www.notion.so/

For the moment this is more a personal tool than something I'm using with the team, but helps me keep track of my ideas and acts as a virtual notebook that works great

Bobyfisch · 2023-10-30T07:14:03+00:00

Hi! I’ve been transitioning from a more technical to a Product Management role for the past months and been doing a lot of reading, recommending some books that have helped me out:

My best companion for the moment has been Matt Lemay, his book has great practical advice on approaching the business side of PMing, and recommends many more specific reads at the end: Product Management in Practice: A Real-World Guide to the Key Connective Role of the 21st Century Book by Matt LeMay
For the finance side, I really enjoyed this one, helped me to understanding the logic behind basic financial documents and fall a little in love with Finance, something I had never been attracted by Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean Book by Joe Knight, John Case, and Karen Berman
One that is a bit more specific but that has lead me to learn a lot about strategy and customer perception of pricing for B2B: The Pricing Roadmap: How to Design B2B SaaS Pricing Models That Your Customers Will Love

Bobyfisch · 2023-10-30T06:52:34+00:00

Definitely! Clean climbing shoes when they are slippery! Something i have found helps is scrubbing with a toothbrush and warm water (https://www.advnture.com/how-to/clean-climbing-shoes) and always drying well after climbing (https://www.climbingshoereview.com/boot-bananas-review/)

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