Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos? by vishnumohandas on Monday May 31, 2021 @02:19AM (#27340800)

Hey, ente is currently not directed at an audience that has the knowledge and energy to set up and maintain a reliable storage infrastructure.

We had started off as a self-hosted project, but ran into difficulties monetizing that model. We wanted to pay our rents, and continue working on this, and an E2EE SaaS was a way forward.

We are not averse to supporting a self-hosted version in the future. But that commitment requires engineering and support bandwidth, which we don’t have right now.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos? by movedx on Monday May 31, 2021 @05:42AM (#27342205)

You've made the right choice not to opensource and or support self-hosting options from day one.

In my opinion open source software benefits greatly from first being closed sourced and commercially backed with an OSS release coming in the future after stability has been established.

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