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by jayFu 2071 days ago
The photo storage/management would be a typical use case for Local-First Software. Cloud storage for photo aims at consumer market is costly, and we've seen Shoebox, Canon Irista shutdown the services in the past few years. And from engineering's perspective, the data should store as close to the user and centric management of those photos is very low efficient too. However people like the cloud experience, the local first alternative should provide the same convenient. The SBC and smart phones are getting more and more powerful and cheap, it would be possible to have a local first software suites running on SBC and provide the same experience as cloud, and we can build the private cloud based on p2p technologies like ipfs, imaging your can have your private cloud service shared with family members/friends across different places running on a 24x7 SBC. DWeb need a killer application to compete with cloud, photo storage/management has the potential. We've been working on https://lomorage.com/faq/ as side projects, it's still far away from the vision but it provides a workable solution and we keep improving it over the years.