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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by rubyist5eva »

humanlion87 wrote: post #45
rubyist5eva wrote: post #21

amazon prime gives you unlimited photos storage on top of all the other stuff that's included in prime

I feel it will only be a matter of time before they start charging though (just like how Google is doing). Right now they need all that data to maybe train their models or attract users?

I ended up going on a paid plan for storing other kinds of files (video mostly). You still get unlimited photos as long as you have your prime subscription, so it doesn’t count towards your quota on the paid side. I figure that’s their M.O. - lure you in with unlimited photos because it costs them next to nothing to store photos and then when they want to store other kinds of files it’s less friction to just get a paid plan. Seems to be the same strategy going with prime video because it is also included with prime but I have subscribed to a few channels on top of that so they get money from me that way.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa »

erikbye wrote: post #185

Why are you looking for something free? Haven't you all learned by now that you are the product if it is free. If you need a service pay for it monthly. If you need disks for storage pay for it once.

> Haven't you all learned by now that you are the product if it is free.

So when I'm running the Linux kernel, or compiling with gcc, or editing with vim, I'm the product? Could you explain to me how exactly?

Sorry but that sentence is completely stupid.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by saint-loup »

kissgyorgy wrote: post #188

Nextcloud! I can't praise and recommend them enough! https://nextcloud.com/ You can self-host it, it's license is ASGI, so it's never going away, and it has an app for photos: https://github.com/nextcloud/photos and another one where you can put all your photos on a map: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/maps

Nextcloud also has a mobile app, with an feature for automatic upload of your pictures and quite a few settings (which folder to upload, etc.)

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by nsteel »

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…

I got and email about this few weeks back (I must have signed up to the list at some point) but I was put off by two things.

> We've already preserved 100,000+ files, and are quite reliable at this point.

"quite reliable" doesn't cut it for a paid service for me, even a new one.

My second issue, and I might be wrong about this, is that there's no way to share photos with someone who isn't a (paying) ente user.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by Griffinsauce »

jk7tarYZAQNpTQa wrote: post #192
erikbye wrote: post #185

Why are you looking for something free? Haven't you all learned by now that you are the product if it is free. If you need a service pay for it monthly. If you need disks for storage pay for it once.

> Haven't you all learned by now that you are the product if it is free. So when I'm running the Linux kernel, or compiling with gcc, or editing with vim, I'm the product? Could you explain to me how exactly? Sorry but that sentence is completely stupid.

It's valid when speaking about a service. None of those are.

Services have operating costs, if you are not paying it means someone else is and your data and attention is very likely part of the package.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by vishnumohandas »

nsteel wrote: post #194
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…

I got and email about this few weeks back (I must have signed up to the list at some point) but I was put off by two things. > We've already preserved 100,000+ files, and are quite reliable at this point. "quite reliable" doesn't cut it for a paid service for me, even a new one. My second issue, and I might be wrong about this, is that there's no way to share photos with someone who isn't a (paying) ente user.

> "quite reliable"

As an engineer, I shy away from using superlatives. But sorry, I now understand that this could have been phrased better. Thank you for pointing it out.

> no way to share photos

Correction, the receiver can be on the free plan.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by gtirloni »

vishnumohandas wrote: post #152
sp332 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Down in the reddit comments it says it is not self-hosted because of limited "engineering bandwidth".

Hey, maintaining and providing support for a server that is de-coupled from underlying external integrations (storage, payment, secrets, email, ...) is what requires bandwidth. Also, self-hosted consumer products are hard to sustain profitably. Avenues for monetization are low. Given that our long term target audience is people like my parents, we did not see enough value in investing in a self-hosted variant, and wa…

The self-hosted audience is also very small. I think you made the right choice.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by [deleted] »

mtlynch wrote: post #22

If you're willing to self-host, Photoprism[0] is pretty nice and easy to get up and running. It has the flavor of Google Photos, but it's definitely a step down in UX. One of the features I really love about Google Photos is the ability to jump quickly through time. Like if I'm looking for a photo I took around June 2018, I can get to it in I didn't realize what a magical feature it is until I tried looking for it wi…

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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by LucidLynx »

jk7tarYZAQNpTQa wrote: post #192
erikbye wrote: post #185

Why are you looking for something free? Haven't you all learned by now that you are the product if it is free. If you need a service pay for it monthly. If you need disks for storage pay for it once.

> Haven't you all learned by now that you are the product if it is free. So when I'm running the Linux kernel, or compiling with gcc, or editing with vim, I'm the product? Could you explain to me how exactly? Sorry but that sentence is completely stupid.

A service is completely different...

You are storing gigabytes of files on a remote server, which costs a lot of money, and get services to modify or whatever your pictures remotely...

And, compared to Linux, it works out of the box... (ok, this was a troll).

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