Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by 271828182846 » Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:03 AM UTC

TresorIt, maybe? Its app has a photo/video upload feature f.x.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by rataata_jr » Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:12 AM UTC

Nextcloud

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by jamexcb » Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:14 AM UTC

I'm using https://mega.io/ has an alternative for Google Drive. Not just for photos. The Windows Client is a LOT faster than Google Drive and with a smaller footprint. It's fast. Works in Linux. And you can use Synology to backup Mega. In the case of Mega goes off.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by mavhc » Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:15 AM UTC

iamthepieman wrote: post #38

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…

180,000 photos seems tiny. I have about 20k photos just on my own, my wife probably has more. 180k is like 10-50 people. Not saying you can't handle it but 180k doesnt signal "I've got scaling all figured out" to me.

I have 180,000 photos in Google Photos

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by digital_voodoo » Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:21 AM UTC

wackget wrote: post #48

Is there a self-hosted solution which supports offline object recognition AND searchable OCR of text in images (e.g. so you can search through images of receipts/invoices)?

Looking for something similar.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by spamalot159 » Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:22 AM UTC

fomine3 wrote: post #85

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.

I'm fine my photos are managed by Google, so I signed up 100GB plan of Google One. Google Opinion Rewards provides me enough money to fulfill the annual fee.

How are you getting so many surveys? I can't seem to get more than one every few months!

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by ale42 » Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:27 AM UTC

The Swiss provider Infomaniak has an offer named kDrive (cf. https://www.infomaniak.com/en/kdrive/prices), at 5.35 CHF per month for 2 TB of space (not only for photos but also for documents, files, etc.). It's more expensive than Google Photos if you have less than 200 GB of data, but is cheaper than Google's 2 TB offer. Moreover, Infomaniak is very committed to user privacy (whence the fact that they don't have so many free services...), unlike Google. They are not very well known outside of the country but are very serious, they do exist since more than 20 years.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by fomine3 » Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:33 AM UTC

spamalot159 wrote: post #176

fomine3 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm fine my photos are managed by Google, so I signed up 100GB plan of Google One. Google Opinion Rewards provides me enough money to fulfill the annual fee.

How are you getting so many surveys? I can't seem to get more than one every few months!

I'm in Japan. I sometimes (about 30%) receive survey about payment method after I visit random store in a day. It uses my location history. Rewards are about 10-50JPY (about 9-45c) each.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by rootsudo » Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:39 AM UTC

Just get an Pixel 1 and uploas from there.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by movedx » Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:42 AM UTC

vishnumohandas wrote: post #131

choward wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't tell if this is self hosted or not. All I see is a centralized option. If not self hostable, a user still can't guarantee that this doesn't just end up being as bad as google photos. There are plenty of companies like this that provide an alternative to the mainstream then sell out. Really, the only person you can trust is yourself at the end of the day.

Hey, ente is currently not directed at an audience that has the knowledge and energy to set up and maintain a reliable storage infrastructure. We had started off as a self-hosted project, but ran into difficulties monetizing that model. We wanted to pay our rents, and continue working on this, and an E2EE SaaS was a way forward. We are not averse to supporting a self-hosted version in the future. But that commitment…

You've made the right choice not to opensource and or support self-hosting options from day one.

In my opinion open source software benefits greatly from first being closed sourced and commercially backed with an OSS release coming in the future after stability has been established.