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If you want to increase adoption, change the name: https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html TDrive would work
It can go wrong too. You search that in Google with file sharing keywords and the AI will helpfully correct it to 'do you mean GDrive?' They would've lost a prospective user to a competitor while sounding like a knockoff of some other product.
If you want to increase adoption, change the name: https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html TDrive would work
> If you want to increase adoption, change the name: https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html > If you have a US startup called X and you don't have x.com, you should probably change your name. But they do own https://twake-drive.com/ already? What exactly is your point here? Either you misunderstand the linked article, or I do. But seems people would be able to find that just fine if they search for, as twake-drive.com…
Re: should they read it? Either you want your product to spread, or you don't.
If you're posting it on HN, you want to share it, and for it to be shared. A tough name makes it harder to share, so you have to decide if you really want your product to spread or not.
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> How would you implement things like version history Filesystem or LVM snapshots immediately come to mind > or shareable URLs to files without a database? Uh... is the path to the file not already an URL? URLs are literally an abstraction of a filesystem hierarchy already.
> Filesystem or LVM snapshots immediately come to mind I use ZFS snapshots and like them a lot for many reasons. But I don’t have any way to quickly see individual versions of a file without having to wade through a lot of snapshots where the file is the same because snapshots are at filesystem level (or more specifically in ZFS, at “dataset” level which is somewhat like a partition). And also, because I snapshot at…
Seafile is the only good enough thing i've found so far for self-hosted file sync. But it is still a pain to upgrade the server version. nextCloud and friends is a complete disaster in my oppinion.
> nextCloud and friends is a complete disaster in my oppinion. Why is that? Have been using NextCloud in our company and for myself, and I couldn't be happier, no issues since 3 years, all the tools and plugins I need, sync running perfect and hassle-free and performant. I thought it's generally liked up until now - I didn't try any of the alternatives though, so they might indeed be better. Though I don't have any r…
It might be better in their weird AIO solution? But i dont like the idea of giving a docker container the ability to spawn more containers. I just use one of their normal docker containers and have had to manually change a lot to make it work as they actually suggest. Like just recently i setup their notify_push plugin as it improves performance - but the provided setup instructions didn't work in my setup and i had to manually tweak several things.
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I'd add a fourth; "Make it easy to do backups and verify they're correct". I don't think I've ever considered a data store without that being one of my top concerns. This anxiety comes from real-life experience where the business I worked at had backups enabled for the primary data store for years, but when something finally happened and we lost some production data, we quickly discovered that the backups weren't act…
Schrödinger's backup. Testing the backup works involves even more engineering and non creative work.
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That looks great, thanks for sharing. I would add to that list something like a splitwise alternative. And open source too? Seems too good to be true.
I think you're looking for https://spliit.app/
With so much surveillance I think there's a real need for E2E on anything. I just bought the basic Tutanota package - but maybe that's just my OCD acting out.
EDIT: This is closer, and you can self-host
https://github.com/cryptoboid/splitio
But it's in JavaScript can't win them all.
Seafile is the only good enough thing i've found so far for self-hosted file sync. But it is still a pain to upgrade the server version. nextCloud and friends is a complete disaster in my oppinion.
> nextCloud and friends is a complete disaster in my oppinion. Why is that? Have been using NextCloud in our company and for myself, and I couldn't be happier, no issues since 3 years, all the tools and plugins I need, sync running perfect and hassle-free and performant. I thought it's generally liked up until now - I didn't try any of the alternatives though, so they might indeed be better. Though I don't have any r…
Give syncthing a go.
The mobile experience last I tried was pretty rough though. I don't really need my files on my phone and I have a web interface on my home server I can use to grab them in a pinch, but it's something to keep in mind.