ente
Consumer and social
photo storage and sharing
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
28 positive, 96 neutral or asking, 11 mixed, 63 critical, out of 198 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Privacy: 3 for, 25 againstIdea: 6 for, 13 againstPricing: 6 for, 11 againstPerformance: 0 for, 7 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
Objections
Client-side indexing will be less accurate than server-side search
From 1 comment
You're right, we don't think that the accuracy of the indexes generated on the client will match the ones generated by Google's servers. There is a trade off here between user…
vishnumohandas on HN
Subscription pricing is high for the storage offered
From 1 comment
Have been hoping for something like this for probably a decade – and your product looks great. Also have a question about the pricing. I’m happy to pay at the current tiers,…
bogidon on HN
Requests
Family plans and shared accounts
From 1 comment
> How does one migrate to this from Google photos? You can export your data from takeout.google.com, and drag and drop the output folder into web.ente.io. > How does one share…
vishnumohandas on HN
Self-hosted variant
From 1 comment
I fully agree. It's a hard sell getting people to switch from an evil but known cloud provider to an unknown cloud provider that claims to not be evil. What we do not need is…
imagine99 on HN
Intermediate pricing tiers
From 1 comment
Can I suggest adding pricing tier(s) between 100GB and 1000GB? I have between 100gb and 200gb of photos, and £14.99/month seems like a lot considering I only pay £2.49/month for…
nicoburns on HN
Questions
How the key recovery and encryption flow works
From 1 comment
Venture: 1. We did apply to YC a few months ago, but was rejected in the interviews because they felt that the total addressable market was low. We don't know if other VCs will…
vishnumohandas on HN
How on-device indexing preserves privacy
From 1 comment
Actually I'm really curious how you do this. If the photos aren't stored client side, then how do you search? Do you have a thumbnail of every photo client side? Is that enough?…
godelski on HN
Alternatives named
Google Photos
From 1 comment
> How does one migrate to this from Google photos? You can export your data from takeout.google.com, and drag and drop the output folder into web.ente.io. > How does one share…
vishnumohandas on HN
Mega
From 1 comment
Pricing is expensive comparing it to mega (https://mega.io/pro). Mega is end to end encrypted as well (Mega is 2tb for $118. Source code is also available…
sharps1 on HN
Apple Photos
From 1 comment
Apple Photos seems to be using just Core ML[1] for on-device recognition and it does a pretty good job. As for Android, we plan to use tflite, but the accuracy is yet to be…
vishnumohandas on HN