Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

Post by latchkey » Sun, Mar 03, 2024, 2:28 AM UTC

kn100 wrote: post #249

vishnumohandas wrote: post #32

Hey, Ente's CEO here. We had opensourced our server[1] yesterday, which is perhaps why we are on the front page. Stoked to be here Ente had launched on HN[2] a while ago and has been sustainably growing since. We took the feedback from our Show HN seriously and have since - undergone a cryptography audit [3] - published our replication strategy [4] - added requested features (family plans, collaborative albums and li…

Hey! I wanted to ask you something. So, I am traditionally somebody who self hosts a lot of stuff. I am not allergic to paying a fee to have something hosted by someone else - but one of my conditions to doing this is that there is an easy way to migrate away from the cloud offering should I choose to in the future. To give an example, I use Tailscale HEAVILY right across all my self hosted stuff. It is absolutely ce…

Post by Philipp2398 » Sun, Mar 03, 2024, 2:31 AM UTC

contrarian1234 wrote: post #175

Sayrus wrote: post #168

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> I don't really get the business model. An open source stack makes sense for products targeted towards programmers. > Most people that back up their pics in ~the cloud~ won't have the technical skills to do self-host Which is why they are offering a managed service as well. Even people with the technical skills are not always inclined to selfhost. > With Dropbox I guess you could accomplish the same, but you'd need…

You're getting butthurt about stuff that's not relevant. The point is the encryption is: 1 - trivial to layer yourself 2 - not a viable business model You just need to look at Signal. It's at the same price ($0) as its competition (not 4x). And messages you can't really encryption yourself. It's still struggling to get a market foothold. Yeah, it'd be great to have Google/Dropbox/etc with privacy. Sure. Nothing wrong…

Post by k8svet » Sun, Mar 03, 2024, 3:30 AM UTC

vishnumohandas wrote: post #239

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Hi, I'm really intrigued by Ente and would happily pay for a subscription. I love to pay for things I can self-host, but don't have to self-host unless it comes to it. Especially when there's E2EE. However, your reply gives me pause. The website says the apps are open-source, the other comment says the server is now open-source. Does that mean there's some pluggable black-box magic that the subscription enables? To a…

Hey, the server was open sourced just yesterday. We are yet to update our landing page copies, and we definitely weren't ready to be in HN today (but are glad to be here!) :) So there is no black-box magic that the subscription enables. Our live, breathing production setup is available in a monorepo here[1]. > is this not even possible This is very much possible. I've added an updated comment here[2], thanks! [1]: ht…

Post by latchkey » Sun, Mar 03, 2024, 4:45 AM UTC

onethumb wrote: post #256

latchkey wrote: post #252

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I'm on flickr and the semi-regular emails over the past few years telling me that I have private photos which will get deleted soon, would be my reason.

That's why you'd leave SmugMug?

Post by vishnumohandas » Sun, Mar 03, 2024, 5:29 AM UTC

anarcat wrote: post #258

I just tried the free trial (1GB, 1 year, nice and thanks!) and this is pretty impressive software. I like the mobile app: it's snappy, and Just Works. Obviously, I couldn't fully test it because I have many gigabytes of photos on my phone (which is a problem I'm trying to fix!), at least not without going out of the free trial range. Also, uploading all that stuff takes time, and I'm not sure I want to share all tha…