Carve out the Photo Gallery as its own app
Problem Summary
People need secure cloud storage for their photos.
On iOS, Apple provides this with iCloud. However, Apple has recently been losing users' trust, by attempting to add on-device content scanning, and apparently (according to Twitter users?) threatening to give the UK government (Priti Patel) some sort of backdoor access.
The other problem with iCloud is that it's only available on Apple devices, as a sort of vendor lock-in mechanism. So if you want to share with friends and family who are on Android, you can't.
Proposed Approach
Circles v0.99 has a "Photo Galleries" tab. This probably needs to be removed from the main app, but it would be great as its own stand-alone app.
And we should be able to build both apps, the photo-gallery-less Circles and the new Photo Galleries, from the same source repo and the same project in Xcode.
Notes
One big new challenge here is that we'd need to somehow keep the online Matrix gallery in sync with the user's device gallery.
Matt Green (@matthewdgreen
on Twitter) liked the idea of having a non-Apple gallery. If we could get Matt and a few other top security and privacy people among our first users, that would be a big boost toward reaching Jane and Joe average user.