Why do I still own none of the data I generate?
Opportunity
Every app you touch keeps the data you produce, and you cannot take it anywhere useful. Portability is a download button that hands you a folder you cannot do anything with. Owning and reusing your own data across services is still mostly a slogan, not a feature.
Why it matters
Data you cannot move is data you do not really own.
How I score the opportunity
The Opportunity Score is my own read, not a measurement: how much it hurts, how often it bites, and how little exists to solve it today. Higher means I think it is more worth building.
How much pain it causes when it shows up.
How often people actually run into it.
How little good tooling exists for it today.
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