Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
by speedgoose on Monday May 31, 2021 @01:26AM
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I am not them but I know a lot of people who are not motivated by money. I guess they need and want enough money to happily live and work in good conditions, but not more, and they do not seek to become the next Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos.
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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
by orangepanda on Monday May 31, 2021 @01:43AM
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Right. But you need money to pay for infrastructure and employees.
"not motivated by money" sounds very much like "we'll be shutting down in 2 years"
"Not motivated by money" in this context simply means not being profit focused, so breaking even and/or revenue enough to hire some more engineers is probably the monetary goal
Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
by vishnumohandas on Monday May 31, 2021 @02:33AM
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Hey, our infrastructure is already being paid for by existing users.
Our pricing plans are designed such that you cover your own storage + bandwidth costs, and then some more. We don’t have a "forever-free" plan, and don’t intend to have one.
And the compute requirements for a product like this are low (since most of the computation happens on the client).
So currently what we need money for is employees (engineers) and not infrastructure.