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The Verge, TechCrunch and their website, and I still have no idea what their product is. They have an impressive team, that has been put across. Other than that

The Verge, TechCrunch and their website, and I still have no idea what their product is. They have an impressive team, that has been put across. Other than that, just buzz words.

siscia 11y ago
Same Here... If, but it is a big if, I have understand correctly it is a simple cloud service but it doesn't save your file in your hard drive, but directly and only on the cloud...
jozzas 11y ago
Yeah, I must be missing the point as well. "Upthere says it plans to offer an API in hopes that developers will make it the default storage solution for their own apps" So... how is that in any way different to using the AWS API to upload stuff to S3? Being a "storage solution provider" (and reselling other companies' cloud offerings at that) has some razor thin margins and a whole lot of competition. I don't understand what makes these guys different.
- inframouse 11y ago
  They talk about running their own hardware so assume something like open compute or backblaze. But without the size or reliability of S3. Can't imagine they'll be able to do it at lower cost than Amazon either. Like you I have no idea why not use S3.
  - jozzas 11y ago
    Like you, I can't see how they'll compete on price if they own their own hardware. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook have all been working on this stuff for years. Even adopting Opencompute or similar, they will have comparatively no buying power, no users and no data.
adevine 11y ago
Agreed. I don't understand this at all. The whole point of syncing was that it got around all the inherent limitations of requiring an always-on network connection in a client-server architecture. And now somehow going back to requiring a network connection to save data is an improvement?
otaku 11y ago
They probably only want to provide B2B services, which prove valuable to offices full of workstations with deep pockets. Not consumer grade, residential drones like us.
otaku 11y ago
They probably only want to provide B2B services, which prove valuable to offices full of workstations and deep pockets. Not consumer grade, residential drones like us.

The Verge, TechCrunch and their website, and I still have no idea what their product is. They have an impressive team, that has been put across. Other than that, just buzz words.

siscia 11y ago

Same Here... If, but it is a big if, I have understand correctly it is a simple cloud service but it doesn't save your file in your hard drive, but directly and only on the cloud...

jozzas 11y ago

Yeah, I must be missing the point as well. "Upthere says it plans to offer an API in hopes that developers will make it the default storage solution for their own apps" So... how is that in any way different to using the AWS API to upload stuff to S3? Being a "storage solution provider" (and reselling other companies' cloud offerings at that) has some razor thin margins and a whole lot of competition. I don't understand what makes these guys different.

inframouse 11y ago
They talk about running their own hardware so assume something like open compute or backblaze. But without the size or reliability of S3. Can't imagine they'll be able to do it at lower cost than Amazon either. Like you I have no idea why not use S3.
- jozzas 11y ago
  Like you, I can't see how they'll compete on price if they own their own hardware. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook have all been working on this stuff for years. Even adopting Opencompute or similar, they will have comparatively no buying power, no users and no data.

adevine 11y ago

Agreed. I don't understand this at all. The whole point of syncing was that it got around all the inherent limitations of requiring an always-on network connection in a client-server architecture. And now somehow going back to requiring a network connection to save data is an improvement?

otaku 11y ago

They probably only want to provide B2B services, which prove valuable to offices full of workstations with deep pockets. Not consumer grade, residential drones like us.

otaku 11y ago

They probably only want to provide B2B services, which prove valuable to offices full of workstations and deep pockets. Not consumer grade, residential drones like us.