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

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by nexuist » Mon, May 31, 2021, 12:59 AM UTC

mceachen wrote: post #3

You're certainly welcome to try PhotoStructure! It's got very robust de-duplication, supports portable libraries (so you can automatically sweep your photos scattered across many drives and computers into a single timestamped folder structure), and a novel UI showing a random sampled view of your library. There's also an active forum for both support and to discuss what and how new features are built out. https://pho…

Thank you for building this. I was thinking of building my own but I think I'll try this out!

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by Snuupy » Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:03 AM UTC

Take a look at nextcloud photos and photoprism.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by lazyant » Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:08 AM UTC

is there a front-end (visualization, tagging, upload, dedup etc) where we can use a cloud service backend (AWS S3 etc)?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by dkasper » Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:10 AM UTC

Why not just pay for google photos?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by fennecfoxen » Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:12 AM UTC

Adobe Lightroom (Classic).

Yes, you pay real money for the stupid cloud model, but — I can add gradient and circular filters, correct for the lens distortion with profiles for most major cameras and lenses (including your iPhone), get one-click perspective correction so a building facade is square against the image plane ... and it's all lossless editing.

You want a map of your photos over time? Of course we have the map. You want facial recognition but locally hosted so it's not creepy? Got ya covered.

There's a cloud-oriented Lightroom these days. I don't use it and don't look forward to when they stop supporting Classic so I'll have to ... switch away yes that's definitely what I'll do 100%

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by happytoexplain » Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:14 AM UTC

dkasper wrote: post #14

Why not just pay for google photos?

They've clearly indicated a desire to try another platform. Why does it matter what the motivation is?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by joshmn » Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:14 AM UTC

dkasper wrote: post #14

Why not just pay for google photos?

Well, for one, if Google's ML decides to nuke your account, you lose your photos unless you have a blog, a lot of upvotes, and luck.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by crossroadsguy » Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:16 AM UTC

dkasper wrote: post #14

Why not just pay for google photos?

Because they are known for bait and switch; and even worse bait and shutdown? One bad click, or their AI screwing up might lock you out of all your photos and entire Google a/c? Among numerous other reasons.

So while at it move away from one more Google service.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by kyle_morris_ » Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:17 AM UTC

happytoexplain wrote: post #16

dkasper wrote: post #14

Why not just pay for google photos?

They've clearly indicated a desire to try another platform. Why does it matter what the motivation is?

OP mentioned that google is ending the free version, it makes sense to ask them why they don’t pay.

If the reason is because they want a free tier forever, that impacts the recommendation. If the reason is because they think google could shut you out, that may need a completely different recommendation.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by joshmn » Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:17 AM UTC

I use a Synology[0] NAS and use their Photos software with an additional backup to both rsync.net and BackBlaze, in addition to using Google Photos — which I'll happily pay for. (humor my redundancy: I'm extra paranoid about losing memories of my mother.)

[0] https://www.synology.com