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Although a bit tangential to the article, you make a really good point. There has to be some room in the market for plug-n-play servers with 0-maintenance web

by Dwolb 11y ago

Although a bit tangential to the article, you make a really good point. There has to be some room in the market for plug-n-play servers with 0-maintenance web apps that are present in the home instead of a public cloud. It'd be really tough to compete without the massive consolidation benefits of the big players. Moreover, it'd be tough to position the product because it's essentially the same service, but with privacy benefits.

seagreen 11y ago
> Tangential to the article You got me. Hopefully my point is interesting regardless though -- basically that some companies like Pinterest are vulnerable in ways that others like Square aren't. > Moreover, it'd be tough to position the product because it's essentially the same service, but with privacy benefits. Oh man, I'm glad you brought this up. I think one of the only interesting insights I have here is that _the personal server stuff is totally tangential to privacy_. Personal servers are cool because they're useful and technically sweet -- I can move from querying my friend's review of a software product, to looking at his code using that software, to reading his blog posts about it, all without leaving the same datastore (on his side) or the same UI (on mine). Right now that would involve searching Acme Software Co's website, then GitHub, then Blogger, which is a plain worse process. EDIT: spelling
- walterbell 11y ago
  Have you looked at the Synology NAS+mobile app ecosystem or the OSS clone XPenology?
  - seagreen 11y ago
    Not very much, know of a good "beginner's guide to NASes"? Honestly though, while I'm sure they're cool, I'm not sure NASes will do much good here. Most people need something as simple to use and set up as Evernote or Gmail.
    - walterbell 11y ago
      This review claims the setup is reasonable and even mobile app acccess works, http://9to5mac.com/2014/03/10/synology-gets-even-better-w-version-5-0-why-every-mac-ios-user-should-have-a-diskstation/ http://9to5mac.com/2014/03/10/synology-gets-even-better-w-ve...

by Dwolb 11y ago

seagreen 11y ago

> Tangential to the article You got me. Hopefully my point is interesting regardless though -- basically that some companies like Pinterest are vulnerable in ways that others like Square aren't. > Moreover, it'd be tough to position the product because it's essentially the same service, but with privacy benefits. Oh man, I'm glad you brought this up. I think one of the only interesting insights I have here is that _the personal server stuff is totally tangential to privacy_. Personal servers are cool because they're useful and technically sweet -- I can move from querying my friend's review of a software product, to looking at his code using that software, to reading his blog posts about it, all without leaving the same datastore (on his side) or the same UI (on mine). Right now that would involve searching Acme Software Co's website, then GitHub, then Blogger, which is a plain worse process. EDIT: spelling

walterbell 11y ago
Have you looked at the Synology NAS+mobile app ecosystem or the OSS clone XPenology?
- seagreen 11y ago
  Not very much, know of a good "beginner's guide to NASes"? Honestly though, while I'm sure they're cool, I'm not sure NASes will do much good here. Most people need something as simple to use and set up as Evernote or Gmail.
  - walterbell 11y ago
    This review claims the setup is reasonable and even mobile app acccess works, http://9to5mac.com/2014/03/10/synology-gets-even-better-w-version-5-0-why-every-mac-ios-user-should-have-a-diskstation/ http://9to5mac.com/2014/03/10/synology-gets-even-better-w-ve...