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Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Post by octoberfranklin »

throwaway4good wrote: post #19
willyg123 wrote: post #11

Out of college I worked on the finance side of a self storage investment company (thank god I left after 4 years), so I know the ins and outs of the business. The number one deciding factor for customers is location. Coming in a close second is security . In a far distant third is price. Self storage employees can only access your unit in the event of an emergency, eviction, or a warrant from law enforcement. For sel…

Why wouldn't you be able to add insurance to an idea like this? Sounds like an obvious thing to me ...

Uh, lack of insurers willing to backstop this kind of nonsense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20276631

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Post by chris-orgmenta »

> Traditional storage units can be far away

FYI you're competing with services that come to you, such as

- Taxibox

- Smartbox

You're probably already aware of those, but heads up just in case.

Also, since they are mobile, the long term storage doesn't need premium real estate / to be close to the customer.

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Post by w45673456354 »

politelemon wrote: post #3

Site appears cut off on mobile Firefox. Also, spelling correction, the 'a' and 'part' should be apart.

It shouldn't be apart, meaning a way from. "Become a part of something great", not "become away from something great".

It could be phrased as "become a piece of something great"

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Post by thrownaway954 »

"Airbnb for storage"

i knew you were putting in the hn title, so we could all relate, but you have that quote right on your site... are you even allowed to say that? aren't you infringing on Airbnb?

i don't know about this... as others have pointed out, i wouldn't want someone sending me something illegal and getting int trouble for storing it. best of luck though.

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Post by ximeng »

octoberfranklin wrote: post #21
throwaway4good wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why wouldn't you be able to add insurance to an idea like this? Sounds like an obvious thing to me ...

Uh, lack of insurers willing to backstop this kind of nonsense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20276631

Interestingly the article linked to states that the company in question started providing relevant insurance in response to this case. So appears what you are saying is not entirely correct.

https://blog.kitsplit.com/announcing-kitsplit-theft-protecti...

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Post by ximeng »

octoberfranklin wrote: post #20
joekinley wrote: post #6

I would have a hard time trusting other people to store any more than useless garbage I don't need anymore anyway. What are the plans of the company to deal with possible huge amounts of theft complaints?

> What are the plans of the company to deal with possible huge amounts of theft complaints? Probably "theft as a service", like KitSplit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20276631 Voluntary Parting, baby.

As mentioned in response to your other comment KitSplit did appear to address this:

https://blog.kitsplit.com/announcing-kitsplit-theft-protecti...

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Post by ZoomStop »

lordgrenville wrote: post #15

When I read the headline I thought this would be a sort of P2P Dropbox. Now maybe that's an idea... Regardless, best of luck!

Same here. For instance I have a server with 4TB of storage and use less than 1TB of that, it would be cool to be able to "lease" out a block of space to a company that would pay a few dollars a month. There would need to be speed minimums and such, but interesting idea.

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Post by sails »

Did you make this with bubble.io? Asking because I get the same cloudflare notice when using Firefox tracking protection.

> Your browser was unable to load some necessary resources

If so, what was the experience like building something a bit more involved? (though I guess this would be possible using one of their templates).

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