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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by CharlesW »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #82

I have been looking to get rid of Google Photos from my toolset for a different reason. I don't mind paying for valuable services. I have been on the 2TB Family plan of Google One for a while, as I thought I would use it as the backup for my Photos. The second reason was that I could have a single photo collective for the family. Apple Photos do not make it easy to have an all-shared family photo pool. Unfortunately,…

> Apple Photos do not make it easy to have an all-shared family photo pool.

FWIW, this is trivial these days. We have a “Family Album” that everyone can see, search, add to, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by lordnacho »

pindab0ter wrote: post #120
ping_pong wrote: post #50

To be honest, $2/month isn't that unreasonable from a useful service. I would definitely class Google Photos as useful, especially its ability to search for pictures. I personally use iCloud, and back everything to a Synology.

What’s your setup for that? How do you sync (incoming) photos to an arbitrary place outside of the Photos library?

I'm not the GP but what I do is all my camera devices will sync to a cloud drive, and my NAS then syncs the cloud drive. Google Photos seems to be able to see them. That way I always have two copies of the image, a cloud version and a local.

The main failure mode I'm concerned about is if Google decides I'm no longer worthy of an account. In that case I'll still have my pics and I'll put in the effort to set up some other service.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by orangepanda »

speedgoose wrote: post #112
sverhagen wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> not motivated by money Ummm, could you elaborate on this? It sounds great but it's at the same time so foreign to me...

I am not them but I know a lot of people who are not motivated by money. I guess they need and want enough money to happily live and work in good conditions, but not more, and they do not seek to become the next Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos.

Right. But you need money to pay for infrastructure and employees.

"not motivated by money" sounds very much like "we'll be shutting down in 2 years"

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by CharlesW »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #103
akkartik wrote: post #69

I'm in the market for this, albeit for different reasons. Perhaps coincidentally, right after Google announced ending their free storage their sync started acting up for me. Even though I'm a _paying_ customer. In that circumstance the usual Google lack of support becomes quite unacceptable. For me the key feature is partner sharing. My wife and I take lots of baby photos. We see each other's photos as if we took the…

I'm pretty much in this boat. I looked up to Google Photos just for the Family Photos Sharing. I keep hoping Apple would come out with a better experience.

> I keep hoping Apple would come out with a better experience.

I recently migrated my 100K+ photo library from Google Photos to Apple Photos, and I can’t think of anything I miss.

I suspect Google Photos may be better for setting up a shared folder for a bunch of random people at an event, but I also haven’t tried that with Apple Photos.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by siddharthgoel88 »

vishnumohandas wrote: post #27

Hey, over the last year we've been building ente[1], an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos. We have shipped open-source[2] web and mobile apps that have preserved 180,000+ files. Apart from cross-device sync, you can share your albums end-to-end encrypted, and filter photos by location and time. We recently had a "successful" launch on r/degoogle[3]. We wanted to Show HN after incorporating the feedbac…

Does this service encourages user outside EU?

What about latency concerns for people who are not based in EU? I saw on that website that the servers are hosted in EU, and say I need to use it in Asia will have service have usable latency?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by Brajeshwar »

CharlesW wrote: post #121
Brajeshwar wrote: post #82

I have been looking to get rid of Google Photos from my toolset for a different reason. I don't mind paying for valuable services. I have been on the 2TB Family plan of Google One for a while, as I thought I would use it as the backup for my Photos. The second reason was that I could have a single photo collective for the family. Apple Photos do not make it easy to have an all-shared family photo pool. Unfortunately,…

> Apple Photos do not make it easy to have an all-shared family photo pool. FWIW, this is trivial these days. We have a “Family Album” that everyone can see, search, add to, etc.

Indeed, Photo Sharing has been there for quite a while and we use it to share with lot other family friends and relatives.

What our family needed is the ability to have a "common library" kinda where we don't have to specifically "Add to" to the common Album.

I know it is trivial but we tend to forget and that habit piles on. So, this idea just turns to "why don't they just eat cake instead?"

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by lethologica »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #108

Some people here suggested Google Takeout for Photos. I did that and I now have a list of 298 separate downloads in my Gmail. Is there anyway, I can drop that to Dropbox (or another bigger cloud service) without me downloading it off-line and then uploading it? Dropbox; because I can set a folder to sync "Online Only" and figure out a way to deal with it.

Is there perhaps some IFFFT solution for this?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by ohthehugemanate »

papul1993 wrote: post #43
mithusingh32 wrote: post #30

If you're interested in a self hosted cloud, take a look at nextcloud. https://nextcloud.com/ I've been using for a couple months and been extremely happy with it.

How do you handle routine backups of the machine that you host nextcloud on?

I run nextcloud on my home NAS with 8TB of data. I use https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy for backups to azure blob. Strong recommendation from me, I tried so many backup solutions... including Borg, duplicity, rsync, and I don't even remember the rest anymore. Duplicacy's no database solution and support for a zillion destination options really got me.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by ohthehugemanate »

mithusingh32 wrote: post #30

If you're interested in a self hosted cloud, take a look at nextcloud. https://nextcloud.com/ I've been using for a couple months and been extremely happy with it.

I love my nextcloud... but I hate its photos experience. I know there are a lot of third party photo apps that work with WebDAV, but I haven't really explored them yet. What do you use?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by fk33 »

akkartik wrote: post #69

I'm in the market for this, albeit for different reasons. Perhaps coincidentally, right after Google announced ending their free storage their sync started acting up for me. Even though I'm a _paying_ customer. In that circumstance the usual Google lack of support becomes quite unacceptable. For me the key feature is partner sharing. My wife and I take lots of baby photos. We see each other's photos as if we took the…

Maybe a Nextcloud instance would match your requirenments. It allows sharing to users or externals via an URL and it has a not too bad UI + Apps.
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