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Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by g105b »

I'm impressed by your high goals, but I feel like the announcement on Show HN is quite premature, or the "Google" title is very misleading.

I'm aware of the beta label, but currently I seem to only be able to use the "Drive" product, which seems like it is a simple file upload/download tool to and from S3. It's as if the other products are just placeholders for the future; ideas that look like products if you don't touch them. Am I missing some features from my account for some reason?

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by batisteo »

fock wrote: post #147
z0mbie42 wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After all the feedback I think a better comparison would be Apple. I used 'Google' because it's really clear for everyone how this company is shaping the world (for the better or the worst).

best comparison would be Nextcloud.

I actually want Bloom to be compatible with Nextcloud.

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by webmaven »

paxys wrote: post #69
z0mbie42 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some friend said the same thing, I've to admit that I'm not a designer and found the inspiration from the brand who spend big bucks on their logos.

In case the product gets popular you are 100% getting a copyright notice from Google, so may as well change it now rather than after the brand is established

This would be trademark (or possibly trade-dress, or even design-patent) infringement, not copyright per-se.

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by Tepix »

Animats wrote: post #72

"Bloom Drive" is a paid service. 30GB free, then it starts to cost. "Secured by SSL", which probably means the data is not encrypted against access by them. The Bloom Drive site is one of those sleazy "sign up and then maybe we'll tell you something about what we're selling" sites.[1] You can almost hear the sucking sound of the onboarding funnel. [1] https://bloom.sh/drive

Yes, it definitely needs a feature list. My top questions:

- do you support rsync?

- how is my data protected (encryption...)?

- do you offer snapshots?

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by ccozan »

blurbleblurble wrote: post #153
ubercow13 wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Firefox address bar works like you want basically. Searches bookmarks (and history) and generally prioritises them above other results.

But does it index bookmarked pages locally, full text search their contents and present the results in a quickly browsable list with context? Cause that would be nice. Especially if integrated with an offline caching/browsing feature.

Maybe some combination with Pocket?

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by contrasti »

z0mbie42 wrote: post #26
Fej wrote: post #7

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Regarding (2), how are you funding the initial phase of the project? After all, you're offering 30 GB of storage - twice Google.

Storage is very cheap. I did not expect to reach Google's scale during the next month so currently we are bootstrapped and rely on some AWS credits :)

AWS is not acceptable choice if you want to stand to your values, see e.g.:

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-...

In france you have OVH - the invest heavily in solar energy and build datacenters with low energy consumption in mind. That might be a better choice (not working for them).

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by Kamshak »

JohnFen wrote: post #70
dougk16 wrote: post #3

Wow, ambitious! Your sheer nerve is enough to click on the link and check it out. :) As a potential early adopter that has seen countless would-be world-changing technology efforts come and go, in order to personally get me on the bandwagon, it would help to know a few things that didn't stand out to me at first, even after visiting the https://bloom.sh website. (1) When I think Google I think "search" first and fore…

> When I think Google I think "search" first and foremost, and I didn't see a search demo or anything. I was expecting something related to search as well. This project is about the Google applications, though. That's ambitious and a great thing! I wish the devs the best of luck! Sadly, though, I don't use those sorts of online apps and so I'm not in the target market.

Same here, expected to see an open source search. Maybe you can find a better tagline :)

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by SolarFreq »

z0mbie42 wrote: post #18
brandonhorst wrote: post #13

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FWIW, I work for Google (not on google.com), and would definitely fit into the "geek" category, and I still assumed you were talking about an OSS search engine.

Hi, currently we absolutely do not plan to create a search engine: it requires too much resources for self hosting, I think we currently have great option for all the spectrum (From Google search to DuckDuckGo), and because an open source search engine will be tricked by all kind of nasty SEO Experts and it will be very hard to promote actually good Content. I dared the Google comparison thinking about it's productiv…

Hi, are you planning to implement email?

I want to move my radio station away from google so badly, and if you can add email hosting, even just a pop server I can start pointing my new address to you. As it is, I want to sign up without having to use another service (which is going to be google, let's face it) and it would be great to have this all stored in one place.

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by stOneskull »

SolarFreq wrote: post #169
z0mbie42 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, currently we absolutely do not plan to create a search engine: it requires too much resources for self hosting, I think we currently have great option for all the spectrum (From Google search to DuckDuckGo), and because an open source search engine will be tricked by all kind of nasty SEO Experts and it will be very hard to promote actually good Content. I dared the Google comparison thinking about it's productiv…

Hi, are you planning to implement email? I want to move my radio station away from google so badly, and if you can add email hosting, even just a pop server I can start pointing my new address to you. As it is, I want to sign up without having to use another service (which is going to be google, let's face it) and it would be great to have this all stored in one place.

Email hosting would be a good idea. That's how Zoho gets people in.
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