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Re: Show HN: Greta, our script for decentralized data distribution

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dennismart wrote: post #2

Hi everyone. I’m Dennis, one of the founders of Greta, a small startup from Sweden. We currently support video (dash, hls, mp4), audio, images and arbitrary data. Happy to respond to any questions or comments you have! :)

Looks Very cool, a toolkit to build all kinds of things. Does it work with dynamically changing objects, e.g. for transmitting an image from one user to a group of others?

Re: Show HN: Greta, our script for decentralized data distribution

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Post by dennismart »

detaro wrote: post #3
dennismart wrote: post #2

Hi everyone. I’m Dennis, one of the founders of Greta, a small startup from Sweden. We currently support video (dash, hls, mp4), audio, images and arbitrary data. Happy to respond to any questions or comments you have! :)

Looks Very cool, a toolkit to build all kinds of things. Does it work with dynamically changing objects, e.g. for transmitting an image from one user to a group of others?

Thanks a lot! The way it’s built is that you could add an image to a site and the users on that site would then distribute the image in a decentalized network amongst them. There is no way to post things from one user to others without first adding to a site with the script on.

Re: Show HN: Greta, our script for decentralized data distribution

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Post by detaro »

dennismart wrote: post #4
detaro wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks Very cool, a toolkit to build all kinds of things. Does it work with dynamically changing objects, e.g. for transmitting an image from one user to a group of others?

Thanks a lot! The way it’s built is that you could add an image to a site and the users on that site would then distribute the image in a decentalized network amongst them. There is no way to post things from one user to others without first adding to a site with the script on.

Does the initial user have to actually upload the picture to my server, or could I just dynamically add an image tag with the right "filepath" to all the pages (orchestrated through e.g. a websocket channel) and it would automatically sync that?

Re: Show HN: Greta, our script for decentralized data distribution

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Post by dennismart »

dennismart wrote: post #4
detaro wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks Very cool, a toolkit to build all kinds of things. Does it work with dynamically changing objects, e.g. for transmitting an image from one user to a group of others?

Thanks a lot! The way it’s built is that you could add an image to a site and the users on that site would then distribute the image in a decentalized network amongst them. There is no way to post things from one user to others without first adding to a site with the script on.

Interesting idea, that should be doable. Must admit we haven’t tried exactly that, but it works fine with dynamically added pictures.

Re: Show HN: Greta, our script for decentralized data distribution

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Post by revx »

dennismart wrote: post #2

Hi everyone. I’m Dennis, one of the founders of Greta, a small startup from Sweden. We currently support video (dash, hls, mp4), audio, images and arbitrary data. Happy to respond to any questions or comments you have! :)

Any reason it's called "Greta"? That's my wife's name so it's kind of weird to see it as a product name as well :P

Re: Show HN: Greta, our script for decentralized data distribution

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Post by dennismart »

revx wrote: post #7
dennismart wrote: post #2

Hi everyone. I’m Dennis, one of the founders of Greta, a small startup from Sweden. We currently support video (dash, hls, mp4), audio, images and arbitrary data. Happy to respond to any questions or comments you have! :)

Any reason it's called "Greta"? That's my wife's name so it's kind of weird to see it as a product name as well :P

Haha yes that must be a bit weird! Well first of all, we think it's a beautiful old Swedish name, it was actually the name of my dad's grandmother. But also we wanted it to be a reflection of trying to build something simple and easy-to-use, as opposed to many players in the CDN space that all use the same type of big-enterprise-tech-corp names - Cloudflare, Cloudfront, Limelight, Edgecast...
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