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I'd really like to try AeroFS although they don't seem to have enough beta spots. Is there anyone that could spare an invite?

by thexa4 14y ago

someperson 14y ago
Yeah I've been waiting to use AeroFS for years.. I don't understand why it would take so long for a product that has incredibly small marginal costs (unlike say, Dropbox or Gmail where there were/are real server storage costs involved). They claim that if you invite 5-10 of your friends you can get an invite, but I don't want to invite 10 people just to be a beta user of the product, it's unfair to my friends to do so unless I'm a rabid evangelist who genuinely loves the product (which I'm not, yet). You don't have to invite the backlog of users straight away, but try to invite say 5-10% of the beta-requested users every month (I don't mind giving 3 months warning for AeroFS to get its systems ready, so AT MOST by September/November it should begin this) Every time I search around the web for AeroFS I see claims of it being vaporware but then there also always seems to be pro-AeroFS employees astroturfing. Even here, the CEO (not a regular user) is linking to a company blog-post (a practise which I don't necessarily have any against, but it's worth noting) AeroFS can be so much - it fills an incredible important niche (like someone said in another comment - an easy to setup P2P rsync). Local, cross-computer syncing is an important thing - many places in the developed and developing world have limited internet bandwidth but heaps of local network bandwidth. Hundreds of gigabytes to multiple terabytes of media, documents and data need to be shared and Dropbox would require immense amounts of money to do so. It may not be as profitable as Dropbox on a per-user basis, but it doesn't need to be since we are using our own bandwidth so it doesn't cost AeroFS anything. They had YC-funding, have like 15-ish employees last I checked. With that, Dropbox arguable is in the process of changing the internet forever. AeroFS can do the same.

I'd really like to try AeroFS although they don't seem to have enough beta spots. Is there anyone that could spare an invite?

by thexa4 14y ago

I'd really like to try AeroFS although they don't seem to have enough beta spots. Is there anyone that could spare an invite?

someperson 14y ago

Yeah I've been waiting to use AeroFS for years.. I don't understand why it would take so long for a product that has incredibly small marginal costs (unlike say, Dropbox or Gmail where there were/are real server storage costs involved). They claim that if you invite 5-10 of your friends you can get an invite, but I don't want to invite 10 people just to be a beta user of the product, it's unfair to my friends to do so unless I'm a rabid evangelist who genuinely loves the product (which I'm not, yet). You don't have to invite the backlog of users straight away, but try to invite say 5-10% of the beta-requested users every month (I don't mind giving 3 months warning for AeroFS to get its systems ready, so AT MOST by September/November it should begin this) Every time I search around the web for AeroFS I see claims of it being vaporware but then there also always seems to be pro-AeroFS employees astroturfing. Even here, the CEO (not a regular user) is linking to a company blog-post (a practise which I don't necessarily have any against, but it's worth noting) AeroFS can be so much - it fills an incredible important niche (like someone said in another comment - an easy to setup P2P rsync). Local, cross-computer syncing is an important thing - many places in the developed and developing world have limited internet bandwidth but heaps of local network bandwidth. Hundreds of gigabytes to multiple terabytes of media, documents and data need to be shared and Dropbox would require immense amounts of money to do so. It may not be as profitable as Dropbox on a per-user basis, but it doesn't need to be since we are using our own bandwidth so it doesn't cost AeroFS anything. They had YC-funding, have like 15-ish employees last I checked. With that, Dropbox arguable is in the process of changing the internet forever. AeroFS can do the same.