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vishnukvmd

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About vishnukvmd

vishnu@ente.com

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    Comment #49151234

    This is beautiful!

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    Comment #48937426

    The key is passed in the URL fragment. URL fragments do not leave your browser. Implementation details here: https://ente.com/blog/building-shareable-links/

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    Comment #48934509

    70% is our gross margin. We have expenses outside of infrastructure (people, ops, marketing, ...). We have to reduce our prices, to make Ente's products accessible to a wider audie…

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    Comment #48933911

    Hi, answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933905

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    Comment #48933905

    ente.com/open is fully automated. Publishing operating costs will create operational overhead, since we've to manually consolidate, label and publish expense records. Not excited a…

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    Comment #48933610

    Thanks, I'm a fan of Smugmug :)

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    Comment #48933084

    Hi, author of the blog post here. > sources of funding. Ente has raised ~$300k in its lifetime from friends and founders / angels over SAFE notes. We've also received non-dilutive …

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    Comment #47613679

    Smart albums are collections that support rule based additions, as well as one-off additions. So a contributor can add photos directly to the collection, without the owner's client…

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    Comment #47600489

    Happy to share my thoughts! Current plan is to keep tags as part of an item's metadata, and allow sharing and access control with "smart albums" - that create a collection view ove…

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    Comment #47571973

    The way I've thought about this, we will not have "files inside tags", but we will have tags (foo, bar, baz) attached to a file as additional encrypted metadata. We have existing c…

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    Comment #47552599

    You will be able to create "smart albums" with nested tags, and share (and contribute) to them. Albums are tag-like in the sense you described it, but might be an overkill[0] for t…

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    Comment #47539653

    Hey, thanks for the response. For a bootstrapped, engineering-driven company like Ente, product offers the best leverage for growth. We are not P0-ing nested folders right now beca…

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    Comment #47526889

    Hi, we had addressed this concern (along with the timelines for nested albums) during our recent AMA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lkTspvi_mM&t=1728s If you have any follow up …

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    Comment #47526826

    Hi, could you please share logs from Settings > Support > Report bug? We'd like to fix the crashes. Sorry for the troubles.

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    Comment #47327734

    Is there a similar tool for Google Photos?

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    Show HN: Self-destructing, end-to-end encrypted Pastebin

    Ente Paste is a simple way to share sensitive text, API keys, snippets, notes, or instructions. - End-to-end encrypted links (decryption key lives in the URL fragment) - Anonymous …

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    Comment #47110685

    "Porkbun requires ID verification" is a better title.

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    Comment #46837788

    We've been using Scaleway's compute, RDS and S3 offerings for Ente[1]'s cloud offering for over 5 years now. RDS backups and retrivals from cold storage[2] are both a lot slower th…

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