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Comment · 2 years ago
The answer would depend on your definition of a 'nostr app', let's assume you mean 'why use login with Nostr if you're not building a micro-blogging social media app?'.

If you need some identity system in your app, you generally have two options: - build your own system, ask users for email and password, etc - use big centralized providers like Google/Facebook/Github, etc.

With Nostr you have another option, decentralized and built on cryptographic keys, not a closed centralized database with emails and passwords.

If users login with Nostr you can fetch their profile, their following list, their other public data, to personalize the experience in your app, to train your AIs, etc.

If you app has important 'social' component, then you might have an easier start with Nostr where people already have some social graph.

And you can use Nostr for some social parts (comments, reviews, etc) and use your traditional app backend for the rest of it.

Nostr usage in your app is not all or nothing, it's a wide spectrum.

Comment · 5 years ago
Can I ask what you're using to view video/photo from your home server on your/family phones? Thanks!
Comment · 5 years ago
How about photos etc, can you please share what you're using and why? Thanks!
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm sorry to say that you have 32bit CPU (ARMv7), and I only build for 64bit versions. There are quite a few libraries I need to compile myself to build the app, and supporting several architectures is too much work for me at the moment. If you leave your email at the website I will notify you when the 32-bit build is ready.

Thank you for your interest and feedback, it means a lot to me!

Comment · 6 years ago
Strange! Can you please share the device model?

Thank you for reporting this!

Comment · 6 years ago
The primary difference is that Syncthing is focusing on synchronization, meaning that some files/folders take space on both devices and are kept in sync. It's essentially a cron-ed rsync (Dropbox is built around the same concept internally).

Recall is primarily a file server. The analogy that I have is that it's a zero-config FTP server with a web client with a nicer UX. Auto-sync of select files is on my roadmap, but at this point it's just a 'remote access to your files in a browser'.

Another big diff is that Syncthing is open source, so it's security and privacy are verifiable. Recall is closed source at this point (although you could peek at the JS client to figure out how it works), and I'm not yet ready to make a promise to open it in the near future. So, be aware.

Thank you for your kind words, I really appreciate that!

Comment · 6 years ago
Connect your devices once, set permissions, and you can list/search/open/download files from connected devices, over any network (Android only for now).

Search files across devices, it detects text on images and speech in video/audio, making them searchable.

Privacy is great, connection is end-to-end encrypted, search does all processing on device.

Free, no limits, no ads.

Your feedback is very welcome!

Comment · 6 years ago
Hi everyone, the subj is an Android app that I'm working on, that has mostly replaced a file explorer for me. The app is called Recall. All file explorers are about file location - folder, file name, etc, which you generally don't know or choose when you take pictures or download files.

Recall is about search, it indexes the file contents in the background and let's you search through content. It also recognizes text on images pretty well, so is really helpful with pictures of documents or screenshots.

I'm currently considering whether to keep working on this thing, so please help me decide in comments :)

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