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This is a great idea, but wow, there's going to be a lot of big files stored and how much could one possibly charge for this is uncertain. I have a small studio
by bugsy 16y ago
This is a great idea, but wow, there's going to be a lot of big files stored and how much could one possibly charge for this is uncertain. I have a small studio. If I was faced with paying let's say a reasonable $120/yr fee for this service, I am pretty sure I would just lay out $120 for a backup drive instead. So for the sole songwriter with technical abilities (needed to use electronic music production software like DAWs) it's questionable. Now for the collaborative job, yeah, I can see that working. It's a big hassle to keep tracks synchronized with what other people are doing, so if done right there could be a demand for this. The cost of getting it done right might be prohibitory though. The first thing that will happen is the FL guy wants compatibility with the Cubase guy wants compatibility with the ProTools guy, which is a bigger problem.
Looking at the actual pricing plans, $228/yr for the medium 20G plan. 20G doesn't go far in my studio, so this wouldn't work very well as a long term backup/version control system, it would only be useful for collaboration of a few projects at a time and then I'd have to dump projects.
The $1068/yr plan is just too much for me to pay for 100G storage. I can rent a dedicated server with 2TB storage for less than that. Also even 100G doesn't hold my projects from the last six months.
I think it's the cost of providing bandwidth and storage for this stuff, it's a serious challenge to the viability of this startup. What you have sounds cool and I bet it works really well, but the file size issue and the cost, man oh man.
- AndyKelley 16y agoYou've inspired me to triple the space given out for paid plans.