Airborn: Create and edit files online, securely
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#2Airborn needs to charge more for their business users. If there's one common lesson on Indie Hackers, it's that everyone (including customers) stands to gain from charging more.
If Airborn creators on on this thread: how did you think about getting people to pay while making the source available? It doesn't seem commonly done.
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#3Great way to comply with GDPR! Also presumably reduces your data management overhead slightly, although it seems you're still storing data on your own systems[1]. This reminds me of SpiderOak's "No Knowledge" claim[2].
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#4(Disclaimer: I don't know much at all about the current standards of encryption)
Is this security not already standard, and not practiced by companies like Dropbox? As a side note, I like the collaboration aspect and one-person-per-paragraph is a pretty smart idea!
Edit: To those downvoting, sorry, I'm just curious and I think some of us were unaware of the differences between Airborn and other services, which I've now learned can still view your data
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#5(Disclaimer: I don't know much at all about the current standards of encryption) Is this security not already standard, and not practiced by companies like Dropbox? As a side note, I like the collaboration aspect and one-person-per-paragraph is a pretty smart idea! Edit: To those downvoting, sorry, I'm just curious and I think some of us were unaware of the differences between Airborn and other services, which I've n…
Most "encrypted communications" means that no unauthorized third parties can view the data as a result of the encryption. However, even if Dropbox stores your files encrypted, they still have the keys to those files and so could be coerced into decrypting (them through a warrant, for example).
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#6This looks potentially nice.
The initial assumption with these types of services is always that an attacker, having compromised their servers, could simply inject malicious code into the browser.
From their docs:
> Normally, when hackers get access to your server, they can change the code that gets sent to customers. For example, they could make the code say "send your password to us". Then, even though they can't read documents immediately, passwords start coming in and they can soon read them.
> To solve this, we're using a relatively new web technology (Service Workers) to install some code which can't be changed without setting off a warning to you. That code then keeps taps on all other code, and checks that it matches the publicly available version on GitHub.
Interested to see how robust it is...
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#7Interesting strategy to list updating the software as a premium feature. Will you make old versions of the software permanently available to customers to install on new devices? Will you support your v1 API forever?
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#10Better headline:
"Airborn: Create and edit files online, securely."
HN has too many submissions with single-word headlines that tell you absolutely nothing about what you're clicking on.