Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage
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Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage
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Re: Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage
#2Neat ! If you are looking for ways to monetize the idea, take a look at what dweet [1] did: you pay to get exclusive R/W rights over a "box".
Re: Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage
#3Awesome for small projects. I’d use it. But:
- IANAL but it seems like a GDPR nightmare (and same for porn and legal nightmare),
- It would be jnteresting to see whether some people are careless about privacy and encryption, or use it as a coordination server for viruses or DDoS. It would also be interesting what genuine usages come up from such APIs.
- No-one would use it for a too serious project anyway, because they’d be afraid to lose their data. But if they want, then they can host it themselves. It would just be interesting to have out-of-the-box authentication and password management, but if that’s needed, they’ll build it themselves.
Re: Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage
#4Neat ! If you are looking for ways to monetize the idea, take a look at what dweet [1] did: you pay to get exclusive R/W rights over a "box". [1] https://dweet.io/locks
Interesting model:
> Dweets are stored for up to 1 month if they are locked. You can query a maxiumum 1 day of dweet history per request or as granular as 1 hour. Locks cost $1.99/month.
Otherwise:
> dweet.io only holds on to the last 5 dweets over a 24 hour period. If the thing hasn't dweeted in the last 24 hours, its history will be removed.
I’m sure AWS has a REST API to store JSON, but the bar to entry is higher.
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#5What is the business model here? Is user data monitized for profit?
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#6How is this superior to ?
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#7Millennials invented CouchDB :)
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#8I don't get it. You're hosting a service that allows users to store JSON for free? Why? Have you thought about what happens to your expenses when potentially hundreds or thousands of people use it?
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#9How is this superior to ?
It isn't.
And that's fine.
People can build and release their projects without necessarily having to build the best-in-class version of whatever it is. This is a useful, well-written, open source app that someone has taken to the point where they're willing to put it out there for the world to use, and that in itself is well worth discussing and celebrating (as much as a handful of upvotes on HN can be a celebration of something).
To be honest, even if it was much lower quality code that would still be really good. HN is all about startups and the release-early-release-often approach to building. This is exactly the sort of project that deserves to be on the front page, and exactly what I want to be reading about here.
Congratulations to the author.
Re: Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage
#10I don't get it. You're hosting a service that allows users to store JSON for free? Why? Have you thought about what happens to your expenses when potentially hundreds or thousands of people use it?
You start charging for access.