Photonix VS Killed by Google

Google Photos-like Photonix (https://github.com/photonixapp/photonix, https://photonix.org/) has a React frontend and (maybe) mobile clients too?

Photonix - heavy into tagging & AI, but albums again

Hi all. Some of you might be interested in running your own web-based photo management server - kind of like your own Google Photos. Photonix is exactly this and has features like face recognition, color detection, map view, apps for Android/iOS and more.

I thought some of you DeGooglers might be interested by the latest developments in Photonix. This is a self-hosted web and mobile app that aims to be a replacement for Google Photos with features like face recognition, object detection, smart filtering, map view and more.

Photonix is a web-based photo manager with multi-user support, local AI image analysis, map view, mobile apps and more.

Agreed Nextcloud photos is rubbish. I used a tool on my photo directory in NextCloud to sort my photos by date and ran a scan afterwords to have NextCloud recognize the change. Not ideal but it worked. Looking for an app to point at that directory, but I don't think I am sold on PhotoPrismI am hoping Photonix adds video support because it looks great.

I was already starting to feel a little cornered in the whole Google ecosystem and a bit limited with stuff like backups, vendor lock in, etc. (and you always have the obvious hanging over your head) and ultimately, I think I just find the mental model of a SQL database more intuitive compared to a NoSQL database. So I thought to myself; "the longer I leave it, the harder it'll be to make the switch".

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Their reputation is deserved. Google domains was killed only last year!

And this isn't even the first time I've been burned by Google's decisions. If you're familiar at all with the Google Graveyard, you'll know that Google has a long history of killing off products and services that people have come to rely on. This has happened to me a number of times, in both a personal and professional capacity, and frankly it's getting old.

Just because Google has a couple of decent services that you're willing to pay for doesn't detract from the fact that most of their products have a worse life expectancy than a victorian child in the 1800s. https://killedbygoogle.com

They ruined every single opportunity to be more than an advertising company since Orkut. With scrapped attempts, starts and lack of intention for most of the 2010s to even during the early half of the Pixel Era, they seemingly haven't learnt to stick to something and iterate on it well.

And the fact that over 50% of their revenues come from search and by extension, advertising.

The fact' that til this day, they still haven't evolved from the "throwing shit at the wall then at the fan" strat which explains how they have fumbled so much so quickly.

Yeah. The Google Graveyard really shows how far this can go.

https://killedbygoogle.com

The punchline is that in addition to hundreds of failed hobby projects, their stock is doing great. Monopoly power is a helluva drug.

To me Gemini is just sort of generic and uninteresting. There has to be hundreds or thousands of products and companies based on the name "Gemini" - "Bard" was at least interesting, different and distinct.

I've no idea about the quality of the product itself, I have never had a reason to use it. It's long past cliché now but I wouldn't get too attached to a Google product that is definitely costing a lot of money but which has no clear pathway to turning a profit. I think they will keep it ticking over until the hype train moves on from Chatbots/LLMs, and then it'll join the Google Graveyard @ https://killedbygoogle.com

We're not talking about reliability, we're talking about Google's penchant for killing established products that people use. https://killedbygoogle.com