Shameless plug: I found Stingle to lack a few basic features (multi device sync, memories, location search, effortless sharing etc) and have been building an alternative[1]. If this is a problem you’d like to see solved, please sign up for the beta program, I’d be grateful!
I find the design / visual style an unusual choice: it's the same theme/style use by Google ("Material"?).
Styling the app to look like a Google-app is an unusual choice. I've developed a rejection of thing that use this style, mostly since they're always apps actually made by Google.
If you tailor to people trying to move away from google, trying to look like google might not transmit the best impression.
The MVP was built using the default widgets, hence the Material-istic interface on the Android demo. I will eventually get a design overhaul done. Thanks for the feedback!
Hm, neither of these appear to support self-hosting the server/data component? That's what I'd be most interested in as an alternative to eg: Google photos.
I had started ente.io as a self-hosted project, but soon realized that to appeal to a larger audience, and to pay rent while working on this full time, I’ve to ship a cloud based solution first.
Maintaining a self hosted alternative in parallel requires bandwidth which I currently lack.
Once the product is mature and has sufficient traction, it would be in my best interest to open source the server.
Fair enough - I couldn't tell from looking that the server might end up open sourced - maybe I didn't look carefully enough?
I'd love set of protocols, client and server that combined self-host with cloud - ie: I could self host a shard/mirror for my data, while paying someone for a service too. That way supporting development and have an option in case the project shuts down.
I'll look into https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism for now, I think. Looks like it provides the minimum I need (self host, à way to upload dslr photos, an Android client for mobile pictures).
In the unfortunate scenario where in I’ve to shut down ente.io, I’d definitely open source every bit of code I’ve written so that my efforts wouldn’t be in vain. But I’d understand your skepticism.
If you are keen on self hosting, I’d also recommend checking out Piwigo[1] which is actively maintained.
[1]: https://ente.io