AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall • Hacker News Board

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

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Post by bostonvaulter2 » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 9:36 AM UTC

callahad wrote: post #26

duck wrote: post #20

I 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.

I just sent an email. I'm looking forward to trying it out!

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

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Post by KonradKlause » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 10:27 AM UTC

Where is the source code?

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

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Post by KonradKlause » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 10:33 AM UTC

KonradKlause wrote: post #52

Where is the source code?

Ok, no source (jet).

Please vote: http://vote.aerofs.com/forums/67721-feature-requests/suggest...

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

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Post by jkahn » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 11:10 AM UTC

This looks pretty cool. I am curious to see how they will compete with Dropbox in time, though.

It does seem like FolderShare all over again - which Microsoft acquired, sat on, and subsequently re-released no less than three times with different a different name and different level of stability. It seems to be the role of the startup to re-implement correctly what large organisations screw up.

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

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Post by KonradKlause » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 11:38 AM UTC

KonradKlause wrote: post #53

KonradKlause wrote: post #52

Where is the source code?

Ok, no source (jet). Please vote: http://vote.aerofs.com/forums/67721-feature-requests/suggest...

WTF? Why is this being down-voted?

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

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Post by jhermsmeyer » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 12:16 PM UTC

My only comment: AeroFS is an objectively horrible name if you ever want wider consumer adoption. Even if you want to cater to the techie slice of the market it's still not ideal. Pretty important to get the name right.

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

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Post by urza » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 12:25 PM UTC

Does anyone has an invite, pretty pretty please? :)

Or better yet, when can we expect the public beta? I am waiting for this over a year now!

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

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Post by StavrosK » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 12:42 PM UTC

nhashem wrote: post #50

StavrosK wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but, last time I checked (a while ago) you could share different folders with different computers. For example, you could make a "work" share and sync it only with coworkers, and a "personal" share and sync it with your personal computers.

The problem is if me and Joe use Dropbox for personal use, and then we come up with a great startup idea and want to start hacking on it. On like day 5 of working on this idea, you'll want to start sharing/saving some PDFs or excel sheets or something. Ideally you'd be able to create a new Dropbox for this project and run two clients on your machine, one for your personal Dropbox and one for your new project Dropbox,…

I don't understand, why can't you just create shared folders in your single Dropbox account and share them with whomever you like?

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

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Post by ranebo » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 1:06 PM UTC

KonradKlause wrote: post #55

KonradKlause wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, no source (jet). Please vote: http://vote.aerofs.com/forums/67721-feature-requests/suggest...

WTF? Why is this being down-voted?

Honestly its probably because your original comment was a one line request for the source code to an application that isn't open source, nor whose feature article mentioned anything about open source. I'm just guessing though, I lack the karma to dv.

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

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Post by alfet » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 1:23 PM UTC

yurisagalov wrote: post #15

aik wrote: post #13

I 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!

I'm stil having the same issue, on the first run it never finishes the 'checking for dinosaurs' part, after a while a warning appears telling me to check if my computer is connected to the internet.