True story here: it occurred to me that it would be awesome if there was a customer-brings-their-own-storage protocol for cloud app backends. It would allow arb

True story here: it occurred to me that it would be awesome if there was a customer-brings-their-own-storage protocol for cloud app backends. It would allow arbitrary apps to stay synchronized across devices, but the user would still control the data. And then I remembered that I was pretty sure I had heard about something like this. And then it hit me, it was the Cupcake/Tent thing I had read about a couple weeks ago but had shrugged off because I didn't really understand the point from either webpage. I just took a second look, and it seems that Tent actually does everything I had thought in my mind, but also goes well beyond, because it has a first-class notion of sharing. Then I revisited Cupcake and saw that I had actually overlooked the free tier when I first read this story. Re-examining it all, I think this is absolutely revolutionary! Once people understand that they can actually own all their own data for a couple bucks a month and app writers realize they can achieve cloud synchronization with the customer bringing their own infrastructure, it could be a major shift in the whole multi-device app/social sharing economy. We can start seeing meta-apps that aggregate app content. But first, both Tent and Cupcake need to find a much better way to portray what they provide, because neither site is capturing the promise...