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Re: Show HN: Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right

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This is beautiful. AFAIK, the alternatives are either a self-hosted blog (not ideal, strips out EXIF data etc.) or something hideous like Piwigo. Awesome!

Koken might be an other alternative. http://koken.me

Koken is beautiful, and powerful. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right

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I developed this project in my spare time. It's a self-hosted photo-management-system and a great place to share, store and manage your photos and inspiration. I hope you guys here on HN like it. If you have any questions or feedback, just write it here :) Thanks!

I didn't just like it, I'm really stunned by it. Great attention to details.

Please keep it open source but make it paid (libre but not free as in free beer), so you can develop more features.

Thanks for sharing.

Re: Show HN: Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right

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No - you didn't read what (s)he wrote. You should charge. Charging people real money gets you real users who give you real feedback. It allows you to allocate more money to the development of the project. Providing this tool for free is a cost to you. Sure, allow a certain number of photos free of charge and charge for more.

I also agree. I want to pay for this, not donate. This can be very important for my personal needs and I want to rely on it. If I donate, I don't get the feeling that the project is moving forward.

Simple solution, they provide a package that is the program and a friendly service contract which provide help setting it up or adding customization.

Re: Show HN: Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right

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This is beautiful. AFAIK, the alternatives are either a self-hosted blog (not ideal, strips out EXIF data etc.) or something hideous like Piwigo. Awesome!

Another alternative is Balder which I made. It is built with Rails and can easily be hosted on Heroku with images on S3. See http://balderapp.com/

Re: Show HN: Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right

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Our server gets hammered by you guys. Here is the direct link to GitHub: https://github.com/electerious/Lychee

Hi, great tool guys! Lovely. During configuration I keep getting an error during the creation of the database connection to mysql: "Connection failed. Unable to connect to host database because access was denied. Double check host username password to ensure that access is permitted"

Can't I write whatever username and password I want? Should I create the database before hand?

Re: Show HN: Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right

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I also agree. I want to pay for this, not donate. This can be very important for my personal needs and I want to rely on it. If I donate, I don't get the feeling that the project is moving forward.

Simple solution, they provide a package that is the program and a friendly service contract which provide help setting it up or adding customization.

That's ok, but that's a services business. That means committing time. It's difficult to build a fly-wheel that way. I guess you could outsource on oDesk or similar.

Re: Show HN: Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right

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Our server gets hammered by you guys. Here is the direct link to GitHub: https://github.com/electerious/Lychee

Hi, great tool guys! Lovely. During configuration I keep getting an error during the creation of the database connection to mysql: "Connection failed. Unable to connect to host database because access was denied. Double check host username password to ensure that access is permitted" Can't I write whatever username and password I want? Should I create the database before hand?

you need to create the database before hand and provide the credentials for your database and mysql username and password

Re: Show HN: Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right

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I also agree. I want to pay for this, not donate. This can be very important for my personal needs and I want to rely on it. If I donate, I don't get the feeling that the project is moving forward.

Simple solution, they provide a package that is the program and a friendly service contract which provide help setting it up or adding customization.

OK, seems everybody wants to pay per copy, am I rite? I think that is a pretty bad idea that will slow down adoption and development. Yes, this is an open-source project and more developers could help out. I think developers are less likely to jump on the wagon to help out a duo that gets all the money. Instead, don't try to monetize this now. Make adoption and interest grow. Then sell a hosted variant at lychee.io, Wordpress stylee. Or be more imaginative than that and come up with a better idea.

Great software anyways! Thanks!

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