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Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely

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Re: Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely

#21

Is Google Docs not secure enough already? I haven't heard of any hacks on that platform. What additional features are offered here besides security?

From what I understand, Airborn.io has the advantages of being Open Source and respecting your privacy (by storing the data encrypted).

Re: Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely

#22

Is Google Docs not secure enough already? I haven't heard of any hacks on that platform. What additional features are offered here besides security?

Google can read your documents, if I understand correctly. Airborn can't.

Whether that's important to you, only you can judge.

Re: Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely

#23
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Airborn needs to charge more for their business users. If there's one common lesson on Indie Hackers, it's that everyone (including customers) stands to gain from charging more. If Airborn creators on on this thread: how did you think about getting people to pay while making the source available? It doesn't seem commonly done.

Yeah, I'll look at increasing prices. Thanks.

We're basically banking on medium-size businesses finding it more convenient to use a hosted service, especially when it offers the same or a higher level of security.

Re: Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely

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few questions: - here [0] "All documents are encrypted before they leave your computer" how then one can collaborate as in gdocs (from the pic it seems like that) - what key do you use for encrypting the docs? is it the user password? if so it can't be recoverd (as dashlane for example [1]) is this the approach? PS: the login seems broken https://www.airborn.io/app [0] https://www.airborn.io/docs/security [1] https:/…

- When you create a collaboration link, it contains an encryption key. (You can additionally also set a password.) All messages sent to the server by collaborators are then encrypted with those. The collaboration algorithm is currently quite simple, and paragraphs are locked when editing them. In the future we'd like to use a P2P algorithm, e.g. using Y.js. [1] - When you sign up, the page downloads a file on your PC…

It is clever that you put the encryption key after the hash sign ("#") component of the collaboration URL, so it never touches your servers.

Re: Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely

#28
You need Patrick from PriceIntelligently to analyze your pricing page. Maybe tweet at him or Hiten Shah and see if either will help.

I'd recon they would suggest you keep 2 tiers and add a call us tier for b2b enterprise.

I see where decently sized companies would pay a lot more than $10/month/user to ensure their sensitive docs can't be stolen.

I certainly am no expert but if the product works as it seems this should be more valuable than $100/year/employee.

Re: Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely

#29
post #26

On the document editor, is it just me or are you missing a blockquote control? Also, is there a reason you're using inline styles to do italics and bold instead of the specific tags for those things? (Deleted question you answered downthread.)

You can create a blockquote element by pressing Tab, although it won't have any special styling. If you want, you could add some CSS in Raw view. I'll look into making a control for this specifically, although IIRC browser support for blockquotes in contenteditable is a bit inconsistent.

Regarding inline styles, I don't remember why, sorry. It might again have been to fix some inconsistency between browsers.

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