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Re: Ente – Opening Our Books

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Post by Grombobulous » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 8:44 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #61

0x6c6f6c wrote: post #58

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Comparing self-hosted immich and a truly E2EE hosted platform like Ente is really odd. There are massively different trade-offs and target customers between these. Ente is a private hosted photo storage and sharing platform. Only trusted devices that can decrypt /encrypt would even be able to perform the kind of work to tag photos for face recognition, and in this category I'm not aware of any hosted alyermative that…

I agree it's not. It's just that, for someone who doesn't need the trustless architecture, it doesn't make sense to go with Ente right now, because it doesn't work as well. I could overlook the missing features if the ones that are there worked, but face recognition just got stuck for me and never finished.

Have you tried contacting support?

I’ve never had any issue with facial recognition. Maybe this is a rare issue that’s an easy fix.

Re: Ente – Opening Our Books

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Post by Cider9986 » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 9:01 PM UTC

alexktz wrote: post #80

Cider9986 wrote: post #49

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I'm not a bot :)

That's exactly what a bot would say. ~_~

Fuck you

Re: Ente – Opening Our Books

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Post by CodeCompost » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

alberth wrote: post #37

Buffer.com is famously open as well, if you like this kind of stuff. Revenue: https://buffer.com/metrics Expenses: https://buffer.com/transparent-pricing Salaries of every employee (which seems like PII to me): https://buffer.com/salaries And more: https://buffer.com/open

$160K for a software engineer? I don't even get close to that number.

Re: Ente – Opening Our Books

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Post by Cider9986 » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 9:17 PM UTC

arendtio wrote: post #64

Cider9986 wrote: post #21

Are there any other self-hostable E2EE cloud products as good as Ente? This company is great. AGPL as well.

Well, not E2EE, but I like Photoprism very much for the self-hosted photosharing use-case. In fact, I tried Ente a while ago and am always impressed by their communication skills, but from a product side, I prefer Photoprism. I have a local instance running on a Raspberry Pi with about 149.000 photos inside.

I said E2EE because that's a significant constraint and open servers is another constraint.

Re: Ente – Opening Our Books

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Post by petilon » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 9:26 PM UTC

dismalaf wrote: post #34

This is cool, I was looking into Ente to supplement Google Photos (I got 6k of my kid's photos, my Google account is associated with too many things and I worry about losing access). $1M ARR seems low though.

Their costs are low, being based in India.

Re: Ente – Opening Our Books

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Post by petilon » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

4% conversion to paying customers seems impressive.

Re: Ente – Opening Our Books

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Post by buredoranna » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 9:34 PM UTC

> Ente was born out of a need to preserve our personal memories.

Hm... "personal" memories, no mention of "public" memories

Re: Ente – Opening Our Books

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Post by stronglikedan » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

speak_plainly wrote: post #9

Kinda unrelated, but the art direction on Ente's site is really top-notch.

It is, but they need a marketing person, because I'm still not sure I know what they do even after reading the About page.

Re: Ente – Opening Our Books

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Post by satvikpendem » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

Batman8675309 wrote: post #45

gortok wrote: post #41

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I’m speaking of things I have personally witnessed; but won’t go into more detail than that, for various reasons.

Man I love this kind of "evidence" that can't be dismissed, that is ultimately just a big "just trust me bro".

Not worth getting doxxed or breaking NDA for imaginary Internet points.

Re: Ente – Opening Our Books

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Post by Cider9986 » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:25 PM UTC

MomsAVoxell wrote: post #67

Cider9986 wrote: post #20

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> Safe home for your photos This isn't clear?

Nope. Is it a service, an app? Do I have to use their app? What's it look like? Can I use the photos app, or .. what is it?

Just showed the homepage to a non-technical family member and they are interested in using the service before I even got to scrolling. They said "ooh that looks nice" when they read Safe home for your photos".