I signed up for an invite a month or so ago, any idea when you are going to open it up for more people?
been waiting a long time for mine....
AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall
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Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall
#22I assume it runs on your computers behind your firewall and not actually 'inside' the firewall.
Also don't quite understand why TC would compare it to Dropbox. Seems like a solid service on it's on merit.
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#23I tried this once a year or so ago, but for whatever reason it wasn't able to get through my corporate firewall, while Dropbox was. I am curious if that has been resolved?
We've done a lot of fixes since then that should hopefully address this issue. Let's try again and let me know :) Shoot me an email (yuri at aerofs.com) and we can see!
Hello Yuri -- I e-mailed you. My invite code has expired so I'm not able to try again.
Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall
#24This sounds like a problem only techies have, and already have solutions for, like centralized file servers. I don't sync files, I keep one copy of my files, and access them over the network.
I am probably the perfect target customer for this: I love and depend on Dropbox for a lot of things since I'm on the move all the time, but I do not trust them with my sensitive data (and I include in this category all of my business data - invoices, et. al). I already have a cheap, mass-storage server colo'd for offsite backups, so being able to run my own copy on my own hardware is a godsend for me.
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#25Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall
#26I signed up for an invite a month or so ago, any idea when you are going to open it up for more people?
Current users can invite new people by sharing a library with them.
My email's in my profile. Feel free to contact me and I'll invite a few folks when I get home tonight (in a few hours).
Edit: To help avoid losing your mail to the spambin, put aerofs in the subject line.
Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall
#27The equivalent open source product: SparkleShare. Except it doesn't do Windows yet (but supposedly will soon)
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#28I used it with my friend to share media. But It always kept requesting. Our computers are on all the time.
I believe this happened because on my laptop I started a folder called media. It was shared with my friend and my desktop. After a while I removed the folder tracking from the laptop. The syncing looked like it was working but all I ended up getting were empty folders and requesting or nothing at all.
Bugs maybe?
Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall
#29The equivalent open source product: SparkleShare. Except it doesn't do Windows yet (but supposedly will soon)
I'm not sure how AeroFS works as I've not used it, but I've tried and had some problems with SparkleShare on larger files because of its reliance on git.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
We've done a lot of fixes since then that should hopefully address this issue. Let's try again and let me know :) Shoot me an email (yuri at aerofs.com) and we can see!
Hello Yuri -- I e-mailed you. My invite code has expired so I'm not able to try again.
replied :)