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Daniel Andrade
Personal blog · danielandrade.nethardwareprogramming
Daniel Andrade's personal blog at danielandrade.net covers hardware and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Roll your own secure dropbox alternative”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers point to this 2017 guide on building a homegrown photo backup setup with Resilio Sync, as an alternative to Google Photos. The comments only cite it as a how-to.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Daniel Andrade is a software engineer and hardware hacker building apps and infrastructure at the intersection of health data, AI, and decentralized systems. Co-founder of Hotspotty and DePIN Hub.
Most-linked posts?
- Roll your own secure dropbox alternative2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-07-22
What Hacker News says?
I use a bit more a homegrown system with Resilio. It's great and costs very little. You can find a guide here https://www.danielandrade.net/2017/07/22/roll-your-own-secur... It take a bit to setup and get used to it but I really like it. To organize the photos you can use whatever you want on Desktop (I use Digikam) and on the phone I use F-Stop Gallery. I know the integration might not be as smooth as Google Photos…
Comment linking /2017/07/22/roll-your-own-secure-dropbox-alternative/
on “Ask HN: Google Photos users: What will you do if your Google account is banned?”Submitted Roll your own secure dropbox alternative as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI have moved away from Google Photos and it took me a looong time to find another service that was as reliable and easy to use. I didn't want to spend too much money on it and I wanted it to be reliable and that it would give me enough control. I tried a few photos-only clouds like shoebox or Canon Irista (recently defunct) but I find them all very lacklustres. Dropbox was the best alternative I found but it was bit…
Comment linking /2017/07/22/roll-your-own-secure-dropbox-alternative/
on “Ask HN: Where do you store your photos?”Submitted PicPlz Python Backup Script as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another Open Hardware Project - A moodlamp that anyone can build as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Open Hardware MoodLamp Project as a story · 1 points
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