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CorroboratedⓘEvidence tiers: Early signal = 1 uncorroborated request — treat as radar, not a validated opportunity · Corroborated = 2-3 requests · Validated = 4+ requests from 2+ different people. Every count appears exactly once, in the fact bar below — each traces to a real source post.
Self Hosted Photo Manager
In their words
"I’ve replaced Google from every corner of my phone except for Google Photos" — a builder, verbatim · sign in free to trace the source ↗
What they tried & dropped
Quoted from the posts below — each quote is checked word-for-word against the stored post.
tools that promise to bake the sidecars back into my files
— "there is always something wrong or missing"
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Pain, in numbers
Only where a builder stated a figure — quoted word-for-word from the post.
“My library is about 30GB of photos and videos”30GB of photos and videos
Hard requirements
Summarised from the posts below. Miss one and they will not switch.
privacy-friendlynot self-hostedaffordable
Competitor pricing
Named rivals · prices not yet verified 🔒
Pricing collected · names — log in ↗
How we checked
Where we searched
3 sources · GitHub (open-source check) · App Store · SaaS marketplaces
Verification funnel
77 raw matches scanned, then AI-de-duped · see the breakdown below
Last scan
15d ago · auto-refreshed every 30 days
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Every source post · named rivals with real prices · what builders tried & dropped · quantified pain — all traceable to the original posts
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3 posts on record · latest Sep 2026 — no new posts in the last 12 months. Demand has gone quiet; verify before building.
Evidence pool
3 source posts picked as evidence — each insight links back to a real one.
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