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Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
- sidsavara 18y agoOk, maybe I'm a bit biased, but I always vote up TC articles about YC Companies - good or bad.
- bdotdub 18y agojust curious, why is that?
- sidsavara 18y agoI see so much other stuff make the front page that I am not interested in, but I am interested in seeing YC Companies succeed. For better or worse at TC write up is still probably the best way to reach people who keep up with startup/entrepreneur/vc news, so when one of them makes it onto TC, I like it - and I vote them up =)
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoNo support for Linux? :(
- old-gregg 18y agoI'm not sure why I'm so eager to post something sarcastic, possibly including words like "sshfs" and "already" mixed up with nasty stuff like "many years ago". Am I a bad person or what? P.S. And seeing another person asking for "linux support" doesn't help me to fight my sarcasm.
- wmf 18y agoClearly the root of the problem is that you're old. You also forgot to say "get off my lawn".
- bprater 18y agoReddit is that way -->
- mechanical_fish 18y agoThe technology is rarely the big problem. The big problem is getting the client to stop calling you multiple times per week. "How did you set up that sshfs thing again? I lost the FAQ you sent me." "I was following your FAQ, but I did something wrong and now I can't find my files." "I love that sshfs thing you set up for me; can you set it up for my ten friends? I'll pay you five bucks!" I haven't used this new thing, but I do use Dropbox, which solves these problems by being gloriously boring. You set it up in less than one minute, with no docs required, and then it just sits there, working.
- bdotdub 18y agoYeah, for us, sshfs, or even rsync is great for our uses. But what about the regular people who wanted online backup and sync across multiple devices?
- mrtron 18y agoYou are a tech person. I see facebook as ridiculously simple. But people use it to store their photos online. Really. If my Mom can't store her data online - it is a problem. Asking for linux support misses the point.
- ajkirwin 18y agoGotta love it. "Unlimited storage!", they say. "Access your stuff anywhere!" Of course, you better not have TOO MUCH STUFF, or you'll run afoul of this tasty provision. General Conditions, 8. If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by Company) of other customers of the Service, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.
- mrtron 18y agoI would much rather see a Gmail-esque size limit that continually increases with capacity than a false claim of 'unlimited' personally.
- davidz 18y agoDavid with ZumoDrive here. I hate bandwidth caps as much as you do. But without this provision, we won't have a way to stop the guy that's distributing pirated ISOs via the service. This is really so that we, and indirectly our users, don't have to continue to pay for that. Other than that, we have no intention from you using the service, so feel free to stream away :)
- ajkirwin 18y agoSo put in some kind of limits. I am EXTREMELY wary of using anything that doesn't define limits. As I can have the rug pulled out from under me.
- jwilliams 18y agoYeah - I think there is going to be a natural wariness as people get used to using cloud services. This kind of clause is only going to make people nervous.
- inovica 18y agoThen you should look at whether you advertise it as "unlimited". It could look like mis-selling and I think the service looks good so you should possibly look at this EDIT: I'd like to just say that I've downloaded and am using the app and its lovely. Really well done. Regarding the bandwidth usage, I think you should still be able to come up with something that is representative rather than what you are currently using. Hosting companies have done it for many years, so just come up with a bandwidth figure per Gb that you are happy with
- zhyder 18y agoWhere do Zumodrive and Dropbox have their storage cloud? S3 or own boxes in colo?
- RK 18y agoHaving already, accidentally overwhelmed my netbook's drive while using Dropbox, this does look interesting. My suggestion for Dropbox was the ability to designate some machines/directories as online only. Unfortunately, Zumodrive doesn't have have Linux support right now...
- shergill 18y agoPricing is pretty expensive!
- 1gor 18y agoCan anyone enlighten me what's the difference between Zumodrive and JungleDisk? I've been using the later for a year. It creates a 'limitless' network drive on my MacBook with 1GB local cache (size can be increased), while synching with my Amazon S3 account in the background is almost not noticeable. And by the way, JungleDisk simply passes Amazon S3 bandwidth/storage charges to me, no caps there; I can bypass it to access my data on S3 buckets; it is available for win/linux/mac etc.
- jncraton 18y agoI think that JungleDisk would be much harder for an average user to install. I haven't used it, but I did just install Zumodrive. I think that linking up with an s3 account is something that an average end user would rather not have to worry about.
- NyxWulf 18y agoI'm a Jungle Drive user, and while I don't pretend to be an "average" user, it was very easy to install. I'm not sure if setting up an Amazon S3 account and then putting the key into Jungle Drive would be too technical for the average user, maybe it would. Overall I've been very happy with Jungle Drive so far, and the $20 one time charge is pretty nice, particularly since I can use that on as many machines as I want with one Amazon account. How does that compare with ZumoDrive? --Disclosure - not currently a user of ZumoDrive
- davidz 18y agoOther than the usability differences, the underlying technology is significantly different. ZumoDrive uses its own file system layer instead of WebDAV(what most drive services use). What this means for the user is that the drive is a lot faster to access, and it supports things like streaming & random access of files.
- popat 18y agoalso what the difference between zumodrive and dropbox (other yc co.)????
- rscott 18y agoI prefer dropbox, more free space.
- jonas_b 18y agoI'm not sure what's with the people in here. Here comes a few guys, and invites you to try on a really smooth service for free (just tried it on my Mac, browsing the pictures with Cover-Flow; really slick) and all I hear is people complaining. Come on, what more can you ask for? Really great job guys, I think I'll be using Zumo a lot.
- Tichy 18y agoThis could at last be an easy way to play Spaceward Ho! over the internet (the PC version). It "networks" via the file system, but didn't work with the WebDAV drives...
- dell9000 18y agoAnyone else having trouble downloading the iPhone App!?
- davidz 18y agoDell, We are going to be sending out the iPhone app shortly. This takes a bit of time unfortunately, but you will hear from us soon.
- gcv 18y agoOne problem: Java. The installer didn't find Java on one of my Windows machines, because I have the latest JDK installed in an unusual directory (and might not have run the official Sun installer, either). Maybe inspect JAVA_HOME before downloading and installing a whole new JRE, or better yet, let me specify where to find it? Two: If you guys want to install MacFUSE, at least warn me. :) Three: Java UI. I know, I know, I'm sorry for nit-picking, but I prefer native apps.
- keevon 18y agoThanks, I've filed a bug for the java check. There isn't much we can do about the Java UI though :)
- durin42 18y agoYou could do what dropbox did and make a real native UI for each platform. Honestly, I gave up on Zumodrive in part because I couldn't get your menu icon to not look selected. It always was highlighted, even before I clicked on it the first time. Also, the menu behaved in a weird, nonstandard way.
- callmeed 18y agoSo ... I have to be online to listen to my music? Granted, I'm usually online, but not all the time.
- jrnkntl 18y agoSo, time for a Hacker News invite code then? :)
- dabeeeenster 18y agoWow it's kind of expensive!
- tdavis 18y agoPlaying with ZumoDrive and already like it. I think this is going to be HUGE, provided two things happen: 1. The clients become less buggy. They have a very alpha/beta feel to them; Mac client random crashes, can't remove dock icon, etc. 2. Linux support is added. You know most of those netbooks you speak of are running linux now, right? ;) Good luck gentlemen, I will be keeping an eye on this one...