Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today • Hacker News Board

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by jamesbrennan » Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 8:43 PM UTC

I'm very impressed with the Copy web interface. Drag and drop works flawlessly. The in-browser preview is really nice as well.

Does anyone have experience with Barracuda Networks (the owner of Copy)? The name sounds familiar, are the reputable?

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by atto » Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 8:43 PM UTC

renownedmedia wrote: post #15

e1ven wrote: post #12

Reading through.. And no mention of client-side encryption. I'm not sure I see the point - We have lots of competition in this space.

Traffic from the desktop clients to the server is all done over HTTPS

What happens to the files on the server? Do they sit unencrypted (so sensitive files are a no-go)?

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by renownedmedia » Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 8:45 PM UTC

renownedmedia wrote: post #15

e1ven wrote: post #12

Reading through.. And no mention of client-side encryption. I'm not sure I see the point - We have lots of competition in this space.

Traffic from the desktop clients to the server is all done over HTTPS

@atto - We encrypt the data on the server, AES256 I do believe.

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by druiid » Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 8:47 PM UTC

purephase wrote: post #26

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 oft…

I store my keepass file like this and surprisingly the best storage provider for this I have found is Sugarsync. It's possible to have the file and changes end up on ALL of my devices, including my phones basically automagically. Check it out, might work for you.

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by ctz » Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 8:47 PM UTC

Front page looks broken on chrome for android:

http://imgur.com/k2mNFVc

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by renownedmedia » Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 8:49 PM UTC

jamesbrennan wrote: post #31

I'm very impressed with the Copy web interface. Drag and drop works flawlessly. The in-browser preview is really nice as well. Does anyone have experience with Barracuda Networks (the owner of Copy)? The name sounds familiar, are the reputable?

Barracuda has like 200k customers and has been around for at least several years. Here's more information: https://www.barracudanetworks.com/company/

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by ZachWick » Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 8:50 PM UTC

donniezazen wrote: post #5

Unfortunately not available for Linux.

I run the Copy client apps exclusively on GNU/Linux boxes. There is even a handy CLI (command line interface) if GUI's aren't your thing.

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by vivekrajanna » Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 8:50 PM UTC

Only thing one would excel over dropbox is that create some context aware data to be used without manually searching the whole files. other wise there already far too many service

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by renownedmedia » Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 8:51 PM UTC

ctz wrote: post #35

Front page looks broken on chrome for android: http://imgur.com/k2mNFVc

We will buy our GUI programmer an Android tablet :)

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by renownedmedia » Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 8:54 PM UTC

davidjgraph wrote: post #27

renownedmedia wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We're getting a lot of feedback on the homepage and how it doesn't convey enough information. The homepage is intended for more non-tech-savvy users. We'll likely add a lot more of this technical information soon.