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I'll bite. I think you've got a really really promising product here. The one thing I'd add is that at least from initial testing, the iOS app doesn't detect and offer to backup nested albums. Specifically, I have an album with another album nested inside, and then another three albums nested inside that. The first album and second album contain no photos, but the 3rd level down does, and the app doesn't see them. Ot…
I'll bite. I think you've got a really really promising product here. The one thing I'd add is that at least from initial testing, the iOS app doesn't detect and offer to backup nested albums. Specifically, I have an album with another album nested inside, and then another three albums nested inside that. The first album and second album contain no photos, but the 3rd level down does, and the app doesn't see them. Ot…
Thank you for the feedback! :)
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I fully agree. It's a hard sell getting people to switch from an evil but known cloud provider to an unknown cloud provider that claims to not be evil. What we do not need is more cloud offerings that can change, vanish or lock us out at the blink of an algorithm's eye. What we need, rather, are reliable and easy-to-use solutions that allow us to retain full control of our data (i.e. self-hosted and offline) while ha…
What about Google photos is evil? I don't get it.
That is utterly unacceptable.
Can you recover the data in case of a loss without seeing the data?
Good project, really well done, browsing the GitHub a bit.
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Hey, so the project had initially started off as a self-hostable software (with an option to buy a pre-configured device). We realized soon that it's hard to monetize such a product in the consumer space to the point where it can become self-sustaining. We don't have a problem with offering a self-hosted variant. But given our limited engineering bandwidth we had to take a call on who our target market should be, and…
> We realized soon that it's hard to monetize such [self-hosted product] Spot on. We iterated on a similar product in this space: "privacy preserving", "self-hosted", "open source" etc. But focused on local AI indexing & search of personal videos and photos [0], rather than backups. We ultimately shelved VideoNinja because we weren't able to find a sustainable business angle: * Non-technical people simply don't care…
I’d love for something like this to exist (a fast, clean, well-designed mobile and desktop app for backing up my photos with E2E), but I’d only switch from one of the big providers if it were FOSS and I can bring my own backend target (e.g. S3, SMB, FTP). In a perfect scenario I could generate my own private key to plug into my client devices and just have everything push to private S3 (and then from there archive to…
https://redbeardlab.com/2021/08/03/my-syncthing-setup-cheap-...
The nice thing is that S3QL allows setting a secret key, so your files just get encrypted before to be pushed on the cloud.
what are currently the best open source projects that allow you to fully automate and manage deployment of your own personal (or multi-user) cloud photos/drive storage service? I found: [1]: https://github.com/nextcloud [2]: https://github.com/Piwigo with S3 extension: https://piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=691 [3]: others https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/the-big-alternatives-to-google-photos-showdown/…
I’ve been watching this project for a long time and personally am very excited. The fact that it’s #1 on HN today (congrats!) makes me think I’m not the only one. There are also a lot of valid concerns in these comments about privacy and use of algorithms. A lot of it depends on what you’re looking to gain by adopting a new service/switching away from something else and individual concern. Personally, I’m looking for…
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I like how Joplin does it for notes. You authorize them as an application in Dropbox or give them credentials to a S3 bucket. Don't get me wrong. I want to pay for your service. I just have to be able to access and decrypt my files if you had to shut down your service all of a sudden.
Our pricing model is such that the product can self sustain itself. Also, we have a desktop app[1] that syncs your uploaded data to a local drive, so you don't have to worry about a lock-in. But even if we do have to sunset the service due to unforeseeable reasons, our cold storage is relatively inexpensive and we will give our customers ample time to migrate out. Also, in such a scenario we would want to publish our…