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Younited is available for download

14 points by tommi 13y ago

V-2 13y ago
Kind of like Jolicloud, it seems, but I gave up on it because the integration with some APIs was unstable (not necessarily out of their fault of course). The younited's website is lacking some info. How does it compare to Jolicloud? What does it do? Why is there no demo? You require quite a leap of faith for me to go on, download and install your app with only a vague idea of what it is.
012673 13y ago
What is it?
- joosters 13y ago
  You'd think the developers should have realised that they have a communications problems here when the first question on their help page is 'What is younited?' Even the 'About' page sucks. It lists some problems and then just states that this app is going to solve them. Come on, tell us (and show us) how.
  - gagege 13y ago
    In the help section there's a very helpful video with trendy music and people playing with balloons.
ziggamon 13y ago
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/ http://xkcd.com/927/
Brajeshwar 13y ago
Why do I have to download the software to "reserve my spot"? If I downloaded, let me register from the app!
woodylondon 13y ago
Rubbish! Make me download an app, without much information. OK I was willing to give 2mins doing that. However, once it's downloaded and run I need to join a "wait" list of users so you cannot use the actual App. FAIL! Uninstalled.
tommi 13y ago
The app looks like it's a syncing service that has the possibility to add "clouds" as source - only Google Picasa supported now. It won't transfer, which I guess means syncing to their servers, the one item I added to it.
darkbot 13y ago
Pricing?
- bbrks 13y ago
  > The options for file space are called Free, Medium and Premium. The free > version will offer all younited’s functionality along with 10 GB of safe > cloud storage – but only for a limited time (starting 2014, the free > version will offer 5 GB). Medium expands safe cloud storage to 200 GB > and retails at € 74,99 a year. Premium provides users with 500 GB of > safe cloud storage, retailing at € 120 a year. From http://www.younited.com/support http://www.younited.com/support
darkbot 13y ago
The commercial was about the most stupid thing I've watched in a long time.
jpwagner 13y ago
http://www.younited.com/why.html http://www.younited.com/why.html but I'm looking for http://www.younited.com/what.html http://www.younited.com/what.html
- schuke 13y ago
  It's in http://www.younited.com/support/ http://www.younited.com/support/ "What is younited?" But yeah, it should've been located somewhere more prominent.
  - xutopia 13y ago
    On the home page perhaps? "Younited ... so you can ..." One sentence and we might not hit the back button.
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darkbot 13y ago
> "You have pictures in Facebook, Dropbox, Google Drive, Picasa. ... All kinds of stuff in different places. We didn’t want to build yet another cloud product where you store away your stuff ..." So what did you build then? A community for balloon dancing?
samsquire 13y ago
How are you going to avoid your access from being pulled by the upstream providers? I wouldn't be surprised if any of these services pull your access which wouldn't be a good thing for this kind of product. I guess it depends on the ToS.
frankydp 13y ago
Doesn't the actual Picasa software handle most of these use cases? Or something like this random google search result https://apps.facebook.com/picasauploader/ https://apps.facebook.com/picasauploader/
mikeash 13y ago
Is it so damned hard for companies to tell us what their product actually is? I looked at the linked page and the About page and I still have no idea WTF this thing is supposed to be. It drives me nuts. It's like people design these pages so they can pat themselves on the back, not to actually communicate any information.
tluyben2 13y ago
As others have said; this does a terrible job at explaining what this product is about.
steven2012 13y ago
If Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Lavabit, etc can't guarantee privacy from the NSA and the government, I really doubt younited can claim that they can. Without being able to guarantee the privacy aspect of their product, what else exactly do they have?

14 points by tommi 13y ago

V-2 13y ago

Kind of like Jolicloud, it seems, but I gave up on it because the integration with some APIs was unstable (not necessarily out of their fault of course). The younited's website is lacking some info. How does it compare to Jolicloud? What does it do? Why is there no demo? You require quite a leap of faith for me to go on, download and install your app with only a vague idea of what it is.

012673 13y ago

What is it?

joosters 13y ago
You'd think the developers should have realised that they have a communications problems here when the first question on their help page is 'What is younited?' Even the 'About' page sucks. It lists some problems and then just states that this app is going to solve them. Come on, tell us (and show us) how.
- gagege 13y ago
  In the help section there's a very helpful video with trendy music and people playing with balloons.

ziggamon 13y ago

Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/ http://xkcd.com/927/

Brajeshwar 13y ago

Why do I have to download the software to "reserve my spot"? If I downloaded, let me register from the app!

woodylondon 13y ago

Rubbish! Make me download an app, without much information. OK I was willing to give 2mins doing that. However, once it's downloaded and run I need to join a "wait" list of users so you cannot use the actual App. FAIL! Uninstalled.

tommi 13y ago

The app looks like it's a syncing service that has the possibility to add "clouds" as source - only Google Picasa supported now. It won't transfer, which I guess means syncing to their servers, the one item I added to it.

darkbot 13y ago

Pricing?

bbrks 13y ago
> The options for file space are called Free, Medium and Premium. The free > version will offer all younited’s functionality along with 10 GB of safe > cloud storage – but only for a limited time (starting 2014, the free > version will offer 5 GB). Medium expands safe cloud storage to 200 GB > and retails at € 74,99 a year. Premium provides users with 500 GB of > safe cloud storage, retailing at € 120 a year. From http://www.younited.com/support http://www.younited.com/support

darkbot 13y ago

The commercial was about the most stupid thing I've watched in a long time.

jpwagner 13y ago

http://www.younited.com/why.html http://www.younited.com/why.html but I'm looking for http://www.younited.com/what.html http://www.younited.com/what.html

schuke 13y ago
It's in http://www.younited.com/support/ http://www.younited.com/support/ "What is younited?" But yeah, it should've been located somewhere more prominent.
- xutopia 13y ago
  On the home page perhaps? "Younited ... so you can ..." One sentence and we might not hit the back button.

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darkbot 13y ago

> "You have pictures in Facebook, Dropbox, Google Drive, Picasa. ... All kinds of stuff in different places. We didn’t want to build yet another cloud product where you store away your stuff ..." So what did you build then? A community for balloon dancing?

samsquire 13y ago

How are you going to avoid your access from being pulled by the upstream providers? I wouldn't be surprised if any of these services pull your access which wouldn't be a good thing for this kind of product. I guess it depends on the ToS.

frankydp 13y ago

Doesn't the actual Picasa software handle most of these use cases? Or something like this random google search result https://apps.facebook.com/picasauploader/ https://apps.facebook.com/picasauploader/

mikeash 13y ago

Is it so damned hard for companies to tell us what their product actually is? I looked at the linked page and the About page and I still have no idea WTF this thing is supposed to be. It drives me nuts. It's like people design these pages so they can pat themselves on the back, not to actually communicate any information.

tluyben2 13y ago

As others have said; this does a terrible job at explaining what this product is about.

steven2012 13y ago

If Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Lavabit, etc can't guarantee privacy from the NSA and the government, I really doubt younited can claim that they can. Without being able to guarantee the privacy aspect of their product, what else exactly do they have?