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by ritikm 12y ago
We're limiting filetypes to media files (videos, photos, music, docs), so you can't pipe in petabytes of garbage dumps of random data. So in your case, we wouldn't be able to accept your database backup, but would be fine for
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by ritikm 12y ago
Encryption is done through convergent encryption (example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7601277 ). We do offer unlimited storage for $20/month, the 200GB for $20 is what Dropbox offers -- sorry if that was
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by ritikm 12y ago
Happy to clarify. We use convergent encryption ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_encryption ), which works with our de-duplication. Example: You and I both have a file A. Our software encrypts that file A with a
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by ritikm 13y ago
Streem (YC S12) - San Francisco - FULLTIME, INTERN Contact: jobs+HN@streem.com Company: Streem ( https://www.streem.com ) is a personal cloud storage and streaming solution for your videos. We automatically store, transcode, a
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Streem (YC S12) is hiring engineer #1 to help build the new media cloud
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Streem (YC S12) is hiring engineer #1 to help build the new media cloud
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by ritikm 13y ago
Streem (YC S12, VC Backed) - Hiring Engineer #1 - https://www.streem.com - San Francisco, CA - FULLTIME, INTERN, H1B Streem is a personal cloud storage and streaming solution for your videos. We automatically store, transcode, a
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by ritikm 14y ago
Sorry about that, should be fixed.
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by ritikm 14y ago
That's true. The way we look at it is that it's a one-time hit that you take initially versus always having to keep a computer on at home for streaming using your home connection; we also let you transfer in files through other means, so if
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by ritikm 14y ago
The website is on Node.js; the webapp itself is on Meteor.js
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by ritikm 14y ago
You can use our webapp using the console's web browser.
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by ritikm 14y ago
Yep!
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by ritikm 14y ago
Good point. I think the bigger downside is the speed -- most people's home internet upload speed is probably not fast enough (the average in the US is ~1.6mbps) to support you streaming your media from around the world and having someone at
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by ritikm 14y ago
We're actually storing a single copy of every unique file. i.e. if you upload a completely identical, MD5 hash duplicate copy of something we already have stored, we'll just give you a pointer to that file. This way, we don't have to store
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by ritikm 14y ago
You nailed it -- we're useful for people that want to access their library from anywhere (at work, on vacation halfway around the world, etc.) on any device (phone, someone else's laptop, etc.) without having to lug around their DVD collect
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by ritikm 14y ago
It'll be through limiting your library -- free users will get a certain amount of space and streaming bandwidth for free, paid tiers get more as you scale up the price ladder (Dropbox style). Additionally, we have a completely free collecti
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by ritikm 14y ago
On the legal front it's like Dropbox -- storing your personal media collection online and letting us transcode and organize it is fine, especially because the content is private (like Dropbox) and not publicly listed (we're not like Grooves
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Show HN: Streem.io - Media Center on the Cloud(streem.io)
82 points by ritikm 14y ago|54 comments
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by ritikm 14y ago
This will be extremely powerful once WebRTC becomes available in all major browsers. Awesome work!
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by ritikm 14y ago
Looks like a big troll. The original thread was made by bert180 (with a zero at the end), but the latest post is made by bert18O (with an O not a zero).
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by ritikm 14y ago
3 days ago we only had a screencast up online. Today we launched our new website that you can download the alpha version of our app from and actually use.
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Show HN: SendRail - The easiest way to send files from the desktop(sendrail.com)
41 points by ritikm 14y ago|22 comments
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by ritikm 14y ago
We host our files on a completely different server which is completely secure. Sorry for the confusion there and thanks for raising this point -- we'll add SSL to our main website too.
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by ritikm 14y ago
We only store the file on our central server if the receiving end doesn't have our app. If they have the app, we create a direct connection between both parties and transfer the file(s) directly without them ever hitting our servers.
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by ritikm 14y ago
Great question - we're using the xmpp_login permission that Facebook Auth provides to get messaging permission from the user and we have an XMPP server running on Node.js that handles all the messaging.
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by ritikm 14y ago
We also support hooking into your address book on your Mac, and are working on integrating your online email address book and ActiveDirectory into it. We're trying to cover every single contact mechanism out there so you don't have to worry
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Show HN: SendRail - Easy P2P File Transfer From The Desktop(sendrail.com)
76 points by ritikm 14y ago|50 comments
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by ritikm 14y ago
Duly noted. Added it to the front page and pushed it live just now. Sorry about the miscommunication there -- we're going to put up better copy along with "What is this?", "FAQ", etc. pages (that don't require you to login to view) soon.
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by ritikm 14y ago
We're sincerely sorry about any problems people have been having with #pause to make themselves unavailable to chat. There was a tricky race condition that was making it difficult for the #pause to propogate through, but it's been fixed now
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by ritikm 14y ago
Friday 7/27/12 morning - thought of the idea, briefly talked about the features and did a basic spec Friday 7/27/12 evening - started coding the backend text message routing logic and the website front (standard stuff - Node.js, custom MVC

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