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How are you going to compete when there are so many free storage services? A company I work for is contemplating how to provide this kind of in-application bac
by zmmmmm 16y ago
How are you going to compete when there are so many free storage services? A company I work for is contemplating how to provide this kind of in-application backup, but with so many free options - Google Docs storage, SkyDrive, DropBox etc., I wouldn't be likely to opt for something that required payment. What's going to be your differentiator?
- mleonhard 16y agoThanks a lot for your question. I would love to hear more about your company's needs. Free services have their limitations. If you want to ship a product that can backup out-of-the-box, without any customer configuration, good luck doing that for free. Save yourself the pain and use RestBackup. My management API lets you create and manage thousands of access urls, with per-url limits. A software vendor can use this API to generate an access url for each application license that they sell. This way each customer's data is separate and secure and the vendor maintains control of the charges incurred by each customer. Paid services like RestBackup can offer these kinds of management features while still remaining economical for commercial software vendors. I'm not interested in competing with free services. I want to build a product that folks will pay for.