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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos? by orangepanda on Monday May 31, 2021 @01:43AM (#27340577)
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"

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos? by fire on Monday May 31, 2021 @03:53AM (#27341408)
"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
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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos? by vishnumohandas on Monday May 31, 2021 @02:33AM (#27340915)
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.

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