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As someone who's considered becoming a customer of certain platforms, I've hesitated because of the worry that the data would be "locked in", making it difficul
by boplicity 5y ago
As someone who's considered becoming a customer of certain platforms, I've hesitated because of the worry that the data would be "locked in", making it difficult to transition if I ever wanted (or needed) to.
This is true both as an individual, in terms of services like Gmail, and as a business owner looking at SaaS options such as Circle.so.
There's a lot of risk tied up in not having complete control over one's data. I like that you're working on that problem.
- woodrowbarlow 5y agobut this isn't working on that problem, at least not for individuals. this is providing a way for lock-in ecosystems to pull you in, not a way for you to get out (except to another lock-in service who hired hotswap).
- memset 5y agoWe are actually working on this problem too - stay tuned! There's no reason end-users couldn't use Hotswap to either extract their existing data as a backup, or use us to move to a different platform. After all, the code is the same. It is true that we have been marketing to vendors. That has been our method for prioritizing which scrapers to write.
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- memset 5y agoHere is a question (two questions) - are there particular platforms, or classes of platforms, where you worry about lock-in the most? And would it be useful for you to have a backup of your data from a SaaS vendor? Or is that not so useful without the subsequent "import" to another?