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Comment by Rygian

It is often good for the ecosystem that we have choice of tools for a given task, so I applaud the general effort gone into this additional "Google Photos 'Clone'".

Here the challenge is to actually understand what "Google Photos" is before claiming that this is a Clone.

In order to successfully clone Google Photos, one needs:

1.- A backing storage.

2.- A web application.

3.- A mobile application (and optionally a desktop application).

4.- A data synchronization model to maintain a 2-way sync between backing storage and each locally installed application.

5.- A data model of pictures, timeline, and albums, that does not depend on where the picture is physically stored (for example, I can create an album on my phone offline, and whenever I come online the sync happens and the same album appears on the web application view).

6.- AI features (eg. face detection) sprinkled on top of the backing storage, and available on both web application and locally installed applications.

From a cursory review, this current attempt only satisfies 1 and 2.

parent Rygian 2 years ago

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