ImKevinArcher

Looks clean, and useful but I don’t understand what is the difference between Bitwarden or 1Password. Missing PM? Seems like not

Thanks for sharing, I think affiliate links to specific apps or products is the right way to go, as YouTube is paying a very low amount for ads.

Yeah

Seems good, I will try to find time to give it a try and see how it will help me in real life.

This article is so accurate, I always have the same seed but haven't got the right words to express that. I mean how many people in the world work hard, a lot, but only a minor part of them get success stories. In the sport, the same a lot of athletes work as if is no tomorrow but only a minor part of them will get the popularity they deserve. We need to just prepare that hard work does not always get its fruits.

Well, you just need to become an expert by yourself. I mean when I need to buy something for example "headphones" or "gaming mouse" I just watch reviews on YouTube and read negative reviews on Amazon. So I can better choose a product for my needs. I tried to find some useful sources but in the end, all of them have some relation with the products they suggest.

I was working too much, so glad it's back too. Needed a break asap!

So sad to hear about an experience like this, for this reason, is very important to secure your accounts with 2FA (two-factor authentication) even if your password or email will get compromised they still won't be able to access your accounts with a specific code. In your case, they used 2FA for preventing you to access your own account, it's ironic that the 2FA system that was created in order to protect users is used to prevent them to access their accounts.

Noted!

That is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. As I mentioned I'm looking to figure out if the extensions really deserve the inverted time. If I understood you right, the extensions are not essential but well-developed ones can change the whole perspective of the project

Thanks for sharing, I haven't even thought about "discoverability" as an advantage, from your comments that make sense.

I need to mention TikTok, it's evident that TikTok is the game-changer, but the most important is that TikTok got so many users from Meta(Facebook & Instagram) and YouTube. TikTok is the unique reason why Facebook has lost users for the first time in its history. Here you can find more info(https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/faceboo...). Maybe in a couple of years, TikTok (ByteDance) will be the next big tech out there.

I never knew that this was possible, basically, Apple just replaced my Spotify with Apple Music on my device dock. What are your thoughts on this?

Thank you for your feedback, noted in the To-Do list, to develop a native app for every device. About subscription, I'm not so sure as it helps developers to keep working and improving the project, for example, if we opt for a lifetime purchase, users who purchase this kind of offer would be needed to keep using the app to recover the value they paid.

We plan to use iCloud Drive from start, and we plan to add more possibilities to sync data in the upcoming versions.

Thank you for your feedback, you gave us a good idea for the next feature that we can add to our app.

Thank you for your feedback, first of all, I want to mention that our app is ranking lower and have fewer reviews because we are new on the market. Our strengths are that we use true encryption, all the photos and videos saved in our app are really encrypted with the key derivated from your password. We also focus on details, we have developed our product to maximize the best user experience. I think our mass import, is beyond any competitor on the App Store. I want to mention again we don't put a pin to your photos, we encrypt every file. You can be sure that we are focused on values and not on maximizing profit. We decide to go with a subscription model because it helps us to continue working and improving our product. It's not a project that we developed and leave there in App Store.

Thank you for your feedback. We have noted in our To-Do list to add "Mac support" and we will try to implement this feature as fast as we can.

Thank you for your feedback and for your detailed and interesting questions.

How exactly are you handling encryption? We don't require an account, your encryption keys are derivated from your password and nevers leave your device, also we have zero knowledge about user password. If the user will forget his password, we won't be able to restore/recover his access, this is one of the side effects of our security model. I want to add that we plan to open-source our encryption key management.

What does “end to end encryption” mean in this case? You absolutely right, in our case e2e means continuous encryption at all times. If you will back up your data on your iCloud your files will always be encrypted, in other words, your photos and videos are always encrypted except when you are using the app. In fact, even when you are using the app, will be decrypted only the requested file, and just some metadata like thumbnails are fully decrypted.

How do you handle metadata? We only use the minimum necessary metadata, to ensure the best user experience. For example, when users add photos or videos we generate internally a thumbnail that is smaller and faster to decrypt.

How credible is a business model of €5/year/user for something that seems to require quite a bit of work to keep secure? We are new in the market, and we need to compete with other big players that have more reviews and users. This is a great opportunity to subscribe

I hope I have answered all your questions if you have any other just let me know, I will be happy to answer them.

Encryption keys never leave your device, they are derivated from your password. When you use Touch/Face ID, your encryption key is stored in the Secure Enclave. In general, we use the same method/model as FileVault2.

More about Secure Enclave you can find here: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-enclave-sec5...

Thank you for your feedback, first of all, I want to mention that our app is ranking lower and have fewer reviews because we are new on the market. Our strengths are that we use true encryption, all the photos and videos saved in our app are really encrypted with the key derivated from your password. We also focus on details, we have developed our product to maximize the best user experience. I think our mass import, is beyond any competitor on the App Store. I want to mention again we don't put a pin to your photos, we encrypt every file.

You can be sure that we are focused on values and not on maximizing profit. We decide to go with a subscription model because it helps us to continue working and improving our product. It's not a project that we developed and leave there in App Store.

Hey HN community, I want to introduce to you Photo Vault, we made our project with just 1 thing in mind:

To protect your private Photos and Videos .

All your data from Photo Vault is always end-to-end encrypted and your media files are never shared with anyone, even with us.

As you know many services are trying to add the possibility to scan our private videos and photos, sooner or later, it will be a reality. We think now more than ever, is very important to keep our photos and videos in a safe place.

Features in 1.5.0.

- Support for video files. - iPad support. - Possibility to move media files from one album to another. - Possibility to import photos and videos in bulk.

Our To-Do list is full of amazing cool features that we plan to add in the near future, and we'd love to hear your feedback and ideas of how we can improve our project.