Cross-cloud checker that catches missing photo backups
Your toddler's first wobbly steps live in Google Photos, wedding day shots are sprinkled throughout Dropbox, and miscellaneous phone snapshots drift around OneDrive. You assume it's all backed up. But what happens when that one folder never actually synced? What if iCloud maxed out six months ago and you had no clue? CloudCheck is the reassurance engine you never realized was missing from your life. It audits every cloud account you own and reveals what's absent, what's redundant, and what's dangerously close to vanishing forever. A straightforward, color-coded dashboard displays exactly where each photo lives, highlights holes in your backup approach, and fires off notifications the instant something breaks. At $14/year, for any parent who's already experienced photo loss, subscribing is the most obvious decision they'll ever make. Your entry point is anxious parents — the ones who've had a scare: a fried hard drive, a misplaced phone, a cloud subscription they let lapse. These folks lose sleep worrying their children's baby photos could evaporate into digital nothingness. But the opportunity stretches far past new moms and dads. You grow into professional photographers guarding enormous RAW file libraries valued at tens of thousands of dollars. Households juggling photos across numerous devices, accounts, and operating systems. Digital pack rats sitting on 100,000+ images with zero confidence anything is truly secure. Anybody whose memories are worth safeguarding becomes a potential customer. For the MVP, begin with a lightweight web app integrating Google Photos, Dropbox, and OneDrive. Leverage OAuth for secure read-only access so users feel comfortable handing over permissions. Generate comparison reports detailing what lives where, what's unaccounted for, and what's duplicated. Design an intuitive, jargon-free dashboard that either declares "everything is protected" or warns "attention — there are gaps here." Validate with 20 worried parents who've previously suffered photo loss. Then grow through content marketing, organic referrals, and that contagious sharing loop every parent instinctively triggers: "You seriously need to try this before something bad happens." Your messaging strikes the single universal nerve every digital-age parent carries: the terror of losing something that can never be replaced.