IMHO your marketing (incl. the title of this HN post) should more heavily emphasize that this has a native mobile app available in App Stores, that talks to this self-hosted server. There are many other private photo-hosting systems, but most of them are web-only — very few have a good, comfortable native mobile UI that you'd actually want to use!

See also: the directory https://github.com/relink2013/Awesome-Self-hosting-for-the-w..., that collects "self-hostable services with native mobile app clients." This project should be on there! (Right now, the only entries in the Photos category are two [closed-source!] Synology offerings, and one other app that's not E2E-encrypted. You're better than these — go claim your crown.)

Hey, Ente's CEO here.

We had opensourced our server[1] yesterday, which is perhaps why we are on the front page. Stoked to be here

Ente had launched on HN[2] a while ago and has been sustainably growing since.

We took the feedback from our Show HN seriously and have since

- undergone a cryptography audit [3]

- published our replication strategy [4]

- added requested features (family plans, collaborative albums and links, ...) [5][6][7]

- made progress with Edge ML [8][9]

- built a CLI for incremental data exports (our desktop app supports this as well) [10]

- and in general matured as a company [11]

Also, apart from our source code, our Figma[12] is public as well.

If you've feedback on what we could do better, please do share, it'd be very helpful.

And if you've any questions, do ask, I'd love to make myself useful.

[1]: https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347439

[3]: https://ente.io/blog/cryptography-audit/

[4]: https://ente.io/reliability

[5]: https://ente.io/blog/family-plans

[6]: https://ente.io/blog/collaborative-albums/

[7]: https://ente.io/blog/collect-photos/

[8]: https://ente.io/blog/image-search-with-clip-ggml/

[9]: https://ente.io/blog/desktop-ml-beta/

[10]: https://github.com/ente-io/cli

[11]: https://ente.io/blog/reflections-on-trusting-trust/

[12]: https://www.figma.com/file/SYtMyLBs5SAOkTbfMMzhqt/ente-Visua...