Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderI prefer SyncThing on both mobile and desktop devices. It's open source and mature, the server only makes devices findable between each other. It allows 1 or 2 way sync. And it has advanced settings for keeping removed files (e.g. trashbin that cleans anything older than X days.)
I would love to give this a try but its software supply chain story seems like a car crash, with dependency bumps needed every few days: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/commits/main/server/pac... I'm keen to use it as soon as the dependency story is mature (eg. it is packaged in Debian). This doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon. I'm sure many people won't care about this. But for me, it's a measure of quality. I expect to be able to deploy and not…
Ouch, each photo's URL is "https://demo.immich.app/photos", and right-clicking and copying the image's URL gives me a blob: URL, so there's no way for me to tell someone "Look at this image!". Well I can create an album of 1 image, and that has a unique URL... Looks slick though, good luck with further development.
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1340
- Total comments
- 550
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-11 | Immich: Self-hosted photos and videos backup for Android and iOS | ignoramous | 6 | 1 |
| 2023-02-22 | Immich: Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from mobile phone | thunderbong | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-03-29 | Immich: Self-hosted photo, video backup solution directly from your mobile phone | thunderbong | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-06-24 | Immich: Self-hosted photo/video backup solution directly from your mobile phone | thunderbong | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-07-10 | Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phoneFirst breakout · Best thread | barbazoo | 757 | 344 |
| 2025-02-08 | immich: self-hosted photo and video management solution | indigodaddy | 6 | 0 |
| 2025-09-08 | Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video managementHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | rzk | 565 | 205 |