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Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by davidjgraph »

renownedmedia wrote: post #17
davidjgraph wrote: post #7

Does it have LAN sync and native integrated get-me-the-URL-for-this-file? If not, forget it. The about page says nothing about who is behind this. I have zero confidence in apps with no "about us". The market positioning seems to be trying to take a little from Dropbox, a little from Box. To target the Enterprise market, as Box does, this is orders of magnitude off what is needed. Sorry to be so negative, but technic…

Oh, and we're a project of Barracuda Networks.

You're employees of https://www.barracudanetworks.com/ , you're funded by them?

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by jacalata »

" as easy as sending a text file. "

Without being snarky, why would you say a text file here? The only use case for 'sending a text file' that I can think of is a programmer sharing a .vimrc, or similar executable text file. The 99% case for someone who wants to share some plain text, even the .vimrc case, is to paste it in the email. This analogy feels very odd. How about 'as easy as sending a pdf' or word doc, or 'a single photo', or any kind of file that normal people ever attach to their emails? (Possible assumption on my part - when you say 'send a file' I think 'email to them'. If you want me to think of 'make the file available for sharing', say 'share').

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by apapli »

Can you put some words up there about how safe my data would be?

Because it looks like the site is based on twitter bootstrap, my mind has immediately led me to think you're doing the storage etc on a bootstrap budget. Potentially leaving it all up to S3.

Seems this wont be the case as you are part of Barracuda Networks, can you put some more words up there to help ease my (and other users') concerns?

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by rhp »

josho wrote: post #18

Checking the TOS I found a reference to Barracuda Networks.. Leading me to believe it's a startup within a larger company (I had been wondering how a startup could afford to buy the copy.com domain). Given the above assumption it may have the funding to sustain the service even if it experiences slow growth. And also suggests that the company has the networking know how to scale their service (unlike my experience wi…

I think you're right. We just put in a new Barracuda Backup server this week and I noticed that, along with the usual file restore functions, it presents us with an option to share files to a Copy account.

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by purephase »

As others have stated, I wish there was a bit more information about the service on the page. I use Dropbox and GDrive, but I'm not particularly fond of either of them. Aside from a slight price difference, what makes Copy stand out?

For example, I have a 1Password file that I would like to share amongst my team for all service related passwords. Keeping this in sync with all of our devices is a serious pain, and often results in certain members owning it (usually me) and thus having all of the responsibility.

It doesn't have to be 1Password. I have tried other apps like Keepass with similar results (and web-based versions, I do not like -- security etc.).

I realize that this is hard. Version control, multiple access to the same files and associated updates but it would really be a killer feature.

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by davidjgraph »

renownedmedia wrote: post #14
davidjgraph wrote: post #7

Does it have LAN sync and native integrated get-me-the-URL-for-this-file? If not, forget it. The about page says nothing about who is behind this. I have zero confidence in apps with no "about us". The market positioning seems to be trying to take a little from Dropbox, a little from Box. To target the Enterprise market, as Box does, this is orders of magnitude off what is needed. Sorry to be so negative, but technic…

You can share files between different users on the same LAN who have the application installed. You can right click on a file from Explorer/Finder and get a share link. The about page update is coming soon, in the meantime go to humans.txt :p

It's sounds great, both technically and commercially. It's a shame the web site doesn't give the effect you just did in a few sentences.

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by renownedmedia »

apapli wrote: post #24

Can you put some words up there about how safe my data would be? Because it looks like the site is based on twitter bootstrap, my mind has immediately led me to think you're doing the storage etc on a bootstrap budget. Potentially leaving it all up to S3. Seems this wont be the case as you are part of Barracuda Networks, can you put some more words up there to help ease my (and other users') concerns?

I can assure you that there was no Bootstrap involved in the making of Copy :p

We're taking a lot of this feedback and looking into rewording things.

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