Saving on Google Photos with self-hosted Immich: a personal photo storage walkthrough
speckx · hn · 2026-09-03
A popular Hacker News post walks through replacing Google Photos with Immich, the open-source self-hosted photo library. Author Mark Pitblado details setup, day-to-day usage, and how it compares to Google Photos on features, backups, and long-term subscription costs — a representative example of the self-hosting-over-cloud approach.
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