Why not just pay for google photos?
Is there any convenient way to back up Google Photos to Backblaze or S3?
Sure, just get a google takeout of your photos data, and whatever else you want backed up, and stick it in S3.
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#72For backing up photos, I've used two solutions: 1. PhotoSync[0] - it can your photos and videos to a local NAS. It has a ton of options for how to connect to a local NAS, plus it will connect to a variety of cloud services. It is very configurable. This used to be my primary way to transfer photos to my NAS, but I've since started using iCloud which does everything I need. 2. iCloud - Turn it on, sign up for the appr…
Do you know if Photosync can retrieve full resolution photos from Google Photos? Every other tool out there can only get the lower-res version from the Google Photos API.
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#73There's also https://capture-app.com/
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#74To be honest, $2/month isn't that unreasonable from a useful service. I would definitely class Google Photos as useful, especially its ability to search for pictures. I personally use iCloud, and back everything to a Synology.
It is not, however for some of us, there was an implicit “I let you datamine my images, you host them” relationship. Having to pay google tips the scales, so why not spend your $2 on a more privacy oriented service?
I love being able to search random things like "Honda" or "waffles" to find pictures from years ago in a few seconds. I use it often now that I can do it
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#75https://www.smugmug.com/ and https://www.flickr.com/ (Same parent company now). Chris MacAskill founded it with his son. Pretty solid company, seems like. https://mixergy.com/interviews/smugmug-chris-macaskill-inter...
Yeah. I don't use the community aspect of flickr much these days but seems a pretty solid place to upload photos and share them.
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#76Hey, 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…
Are there any plans to add search and automatic image tagging ?
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
#77To be honest, $2/month isn't that unreasonable from a useful service. I would definitely class Google Photos as useful, especially its ability to search for pictures. I personally use iCloud, and back everything to a Synology.
It is not, however for some of us, there was an implicit “I let you datamine my images, you host them” relationship. Having to pay google tips the scales, so why not spend your $2 on a more privacy oriented service?
Because the people willing to pay Google for their service don't mind the use of their pictures to better their services elsewhere. Google didn't get to be where it was without us , and the fight for privacy isn't worth it for some (most) people. Alternatives usually involve self hosting, trusting a privacy focused service , or not doing it at all. It's tiring. I respect the effort , but In a lot of ways it feels like going backwards.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
#78Hey, 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…
Are there any plans to add search and automatic image tagging ?
Our web app[1] lets you search by time ("last week", "April 14", ...) and location ("New York").
Tagging faces and objects is on our roadmap, we will ship it.
[1]: https://web.ente.io
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#80Since this is HN, I'll throw it out there -- I store my photos on Amazon S3 and I use signed imgix urls to share them with people and use imgix to generate thumbnails for galleries.