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Google Photos open-source alternative with React Native

Keyvan M. Sadeghi on June 03, 2021

Greetings fellow DEVs! You've probably heard the news about Google Photos becoming a paid service starting this month. We've been eying this date f...
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Ben Halpern

This is seriously well thought out and a tremendous writeup. I am definitely rooting this on and believe in all the principles.

@asynchio you seen this?

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Keyvan M. Sadeghi • Edited

Thanks @ben , this means so much to us coming from you <3

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Joseph Jacks

Looking!

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Keyvan M. Sadeghi

Hi Joseph! We met again :)

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ehsan shariati • Edited

I am Ehsan :) If anyone has questions or comments, you can reach out to me here as well

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Luis Henrique Trindade • Edited

Wow, a true manifest! Count on me! How can I help? Message me, please.

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For IPFS based version control, you might want to check out brig (written in Go).

Suggesting this since note taking mobile app with built-in git integration is quite popular amongs developer.

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Keyvan M. Sadeghi

Thanks @drsensor ! We were looking at brig and others as a venue of file sharing earlier. A git-enabled note taking p2p app definitely sounds interesting! Would you be interested in taking a stab at it? We'd love to work with you on the p2p backend.

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I don't think many people would want their notes seen by others since IPFS by design is a public network 😅
(unless you do something about that)

Since brig has encryption built-in, I'm more interested packaging brig as android dependencies. Something like jagged but for brig instead of git (libgit2).

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Keyvan M. Sadeghi

Great idea 👌

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Negar Kalantari

The topic draws my attention. I look forward to receiving updates in the future ahead. :)

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Mojgan

Sounds interesting!

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Gonzalo Muñoz

Hi! This actually looks really promising... JavaScript junior dev here (full stack). Don't hesitate to contact me if I can be of help!

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Keyvan M. Sadeghi

Hi @mgonzalo ! Would love to have you aboard 🤗
First step is to fork the repository, then you can pick an issue and start working on it in your own fork. When you're done, submit a pull request and @ehsan6sha will merge.
You can also suggest your own take on what needs to be done next as an issue and work on that.
We'll keep in touch over at GitHub, it's our pleasure to welcome fresh talent in the project 👍

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Tal Charnes

Message me regarding funding please

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Keyvan M. Sadeghi

Contacted you on LinkedIn ;)

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Roman Uholnikov

Here is my little pet project, that I created to tackle the same problem that you did:
ugolnikovroman.medium.com/aws-clou...

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Keyvan M. Sadeghi

This is super cool, please see my comment on your article🎉

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Roman Uholnikov

I see the comment. And I am happy to coordinate\implement connecting it with AWS. I will spend some time and try to paly with it. However as of now I have not discovered info about list of APIcall to back end that needs to be supported. Can you point me out?

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Keyvan M. Sadeghi

Awsome! Yeah, we should design the list of all API calls together, @ehsan6sha knows better than me. I created an issue for us to brainstorm about it:
github.com/functionland/photos/iss...