If your primary device is Android, please check out Ente[1].
We are an E2EE alternative to Google Photos. We had launched on HN[2] a while ago, and have been working towards feature parity. We aren't "there" yet, but hope to soon be.
If you've any feedback, please share it with [email protected], I'd be grateful!
Have there been any considerations for self-hosting? I understand that is your “secret sauce”, in a way, but I thoroughly believe there’s a compromise here. Perhaps offering source code via GitHub (with no binaries) and then offer the full source code + binaries via purchasable licenses? Similar to TagSpaces business model of selling binaries to their app, while maintaining it openly on GitHub: https://www.tagspaces.org/products/https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces
Either way, will definitely be keeping an eye on your app, it seems ducking cool ;)
Ente was first a piece of hardware, then a self-host-able project, but we had a hard time monetizing both, which lead to the E2EE pivot.
TIL about TagSpaces, thanks!
Our server can be open-sourced, but we're unsure of the value E2EE will provide, with services like Photoprism[1] and Immich[2] already doing a good job of serving customers who prefer to self host. In this context E2EE might become a constraint, rather than a feature.
This does look good, but it does not seem to be self-hostable. Though this may be a good alternative for people that do not care about hosting their own services!
If your primary device is Android, please check out Ente[1].
We are an E2EE alternative to Google Photos. We had launched on HN[2] a while ago, and have been working towards feature parity. We aren't "there" yet, but hope to soon be.
If you've any feedback, please share it with [email protected], I'd be grateful!
[1]: https://ente.io
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347439