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Re: Show HN: Unlimited Free Backup For Life (built in HTML5)

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Post by gokuknows » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 1:33 AM UTC

kevinelliott wrote: post #19

How will you sustain a "free storage" site without any income? Surely you must be charging someone for something. If not, it leads me to believe you might do something with our data to make money. I don't want to jump to conclusions, so it might be a better idea if you just tell us how you plan to capitalize on the service before we upload our content!

I am not making any money from your data. We make money from the enterprise and it will stay that way, we don't charge consumers and wont charge in the future.

Re: Show HN: Unlimited Free Backup For Life (built in HTML5)

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Post by paulhauggis » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 1:37 AM UTC

Anyone remember backify?

Yeah, I do too. I lost all of my data after all of their accounts got closed (luckily I wasn't relying on my backups here).

This sort of service cannot be sustained and I can't trust it with any important data. I know you say that you are different, but I've seen it too many times before.

Re: Show HN: Unlimited Free Backup For Life (built in HTML5)

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Post by cyaconi » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 1:37 AM UTC

Do you have any plans to release a bash client to upload files? I'd love to use crontab to backup my new files.

Thanks

Re: Show HN: Unlimited Free Backup For Life (built in HTML5)

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Post by phamilton » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 1:46 AM UTC

moe wrote: post #20

gokuknows wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Martin, We are planning to stay alive for 100 years this is a very long term play. We are planning to kill the OS by letting users execute any file type in the cloud: PSDs, AI, you name it, open, edit, save and publish. The way we will make money is from enterprise (which we got already some clients) and from apps that will be built on top of Thirsty. We don't believe that people should be charged for backup beca…

That's great and all. Who pays your bills in the next 12 months?

Better question: Who paid for thirsty.com? Dictionary words are not cheap.

Re: Show HN: Unlimited Free Backup For Life (built in HTML5)

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Post by saiko-chriskun » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 1:47 AM UTC

cyaconi wrote: post #23

Do you have any plans to release a bash client to upload files? I'd love to use crontab to backup my new files. Thanks

that's an awesome idea :D. I'll put it on our todo list ^^

Re: Show HN: Unlimited Free Backup For Life (built in HTML5)

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Post by tct » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 1:49 AM UTC

Can't beat a quote like this from the creator: "We are planning to stay alive for 100 years this is a very long term play. We are planning to kill the OS by letting users execute any file type in the cloud"

I think not, but thanks anyway.

Re: Show HN: Unlimited Free Backup For Life (built in HTML5)

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Post by srik » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 2:02 AM UTC

An app for Chrome OS/iOS etc would be avery good idea. Their users don't have a filesystem(or are kept unaware of it) and so they might take to it much quicker. Just a thought.

Re: Show HN: Unlimited Free Backup For Life (built in HTML5)

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Post by mullr » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 2:05 AM UTC

First reactions:

1) "Create and discover hard drives" => "huh? what on earth does that mean?"

2) "Share, make them password protected or open them up for others to add to it" => I'm no closer to understanding what your product does.

3) Enter your email, enter your password => I don't know what this is, why it exists, I don't have an account, and you can't have my email address.

If you're going to get that information from me, you're going to have to spell out in understandable terms what problems you're solving.

And, although everybody else has said it: nobody believes "unlimited and free forever". Doesn't particularly matter if you've found a way to do it, it's not credible. And the "available gigabytes" thing at the bottom is obviously fake, lending to the overall feeling of impending bait-and-switch.

Re: Show HN: Unlimited Free Backup For Life (built in HTML5)

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Post by LuxuryMode » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 2:07 AM UTC

gokuknows wrote: post #15

LuxuryMode wrote: post #14

I just signed up, created a room, named it, tagged it, uploaded a file to it and saved it. Now I have no idea how to find that room. Tried searching for it, nothing happens. This looked promising and then... it just falls flat.

You can see it in the footer, sorry we just launched today and we are only 2 engineers trying our best to fix everything asap. Tell me if you see it in the footer. Btw it is free back up for life and its safe, so your files are there no worries, tell me if you would like anything else to improve your exp you can email me at michael@thirsty.com if you need any help with something.

Thanks for the quick response. I now see the room in the footer. I clicked it and my file is nowhere to be found...

Re: Show HN: Unlimited Free Backup For Life (built in HTML5)

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Post by bdunn » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 2:35 AM UTC

gokuknows wrote: post #18

martingordon wrote: post #16

I need to write a bot that posts this every time a new free online storage sites pop up on HN: The only compelling aspect of the offering is the promise of free storage. I don't see a dollar sign anywhere on the site, so I don't understand how they intend to keep that promise for very long. I refuse to sign up for a product, much less take the time to integrate it into my workflow, without knowing that it will be aro…

Hey Martin, We are planning to stay alive for 100 years this is a very long term play. We are planning to kill the OS by letting users execute any file type in the cloud: PSDs, AI, you name it, open, edit, save and publish. The way we will make money is from enterprise (which we got already some clients) and from apps that will be built on top of Thirsty. We don't believe that people should be charged for backup beca…

Those are some lofty goals. Good luck.