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When will the market be ripe for people/average joe to buy or rent a block data service à la s3/minio so they can plug their app (calendar, photo sharing, blog,
by johnchristopher 6y ago
When will the market be ripe for people/average joe to buy or rent a block data service à la s3/minio so they can plug their app (calendar, photo sharing, blog, messages, etc.) to it instead of being forced to pay for services with their privacy ? They'd just pay for cloud storage that can be used by any apps using buckets/volumes as external storage instead of paying for dropbox like dumb storage.
If I had money I would do a foundation thing to kickstart something like that.
Is that a dumb idea ?
edit: maybe the latency between the app and the block service would be too high to be reliable/tolerable.
edit2: there used to be a lot of applications that relied on dropbox to store things but I have a feeling SSG captured the dev mindshare (or maybe Dropbox restricted the API).
edit3: I just corrected `id` to `idea`, my brain does that when I am tired :D
- lisper 6y agoNot dumb at all, just really hard. I've taken a couple of shots at this and been defeated by it every time.
- holografix 6y agoHow would you stop the app from retaining your date once they have access to it?
- johnchristopher 6y agoYou can revoke access to buckets (to stay in the S3 comparison).
- holografix 6y agoBut what if in reading the data the apps didn’t also make their own copy and store in their servers?
- hntcz 6y agoNo, not dumb. That's what I wrote my BSc project on.