For years and years, I used Gallery/Gallery2 to self-host photos, but more and more, I found myself taking photos with my phone instead of a regular camera. From the smartphone, it was much easier to upload to Facebook (and now, G+) than it was to get photos into Gallery. Once every so often, I would bother connecting my phone to my computer, sync the photos over, and then upload them into Gallery. But by then, they were already shared among my friends and family.

My gallery is still up, but the last time I updated it was apparently in 2011. There was a android client that came out that I had tried, but it didn't really work that well. I still backup photos from my phone to my computer and NAS, but couldn't be motivated to go beyond that.

I've looked at times to improve this situation. I much prefer to have my photos self-hosted. I haven't really found a gallery type program that worked as well as Menalto Gallery, but Lychee looks like it's a good contender. I also like that it can share out to other services.

At first I was thinking that since this doesn't have an android client, it would fall into the same disuse as my Gallery installation. But I noticed that it could read from an uploads folder and you could essentially ftp upload to the server. This made me wonder if one could just have an auto-upload (scp/sftp or otherwise) to a server.

I found a couple apps that do this, but [Auto-Share](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dngames.au...) looks the most polished. So I can see this working out.

tl;dr Looks like a great photo manager, love the option to share out to other service. There may be some Android Apps to automatically upload, even if it's not natively supported in Lychee.