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Re: Show HN: Sync Done Beautifully

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Post by shravan »

whiddershins wrote: post #2

This sounds incredible, obviously the details are everything. Would be nice to see a comparison to other solutions, and an explanation of how infinite storage is possible/economical.

Hey, one of the founders of Pixelapse here. For context, our target demographic is graphic designers.

We initially started out with tiered pricing based on storage. However, based on usage, we actually found that people rarely hit their storage caps. A better barometer for us is the number of people working together, which we approximate with projects. In that regard, our pricing plans are similar to Github's. Public projects are free and unlimited. Private projects are paid.

Re: Show HN: Sync Done Beautifully

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Post by michaelmior »

shravan wrote: post #6
michaelmior wrote: post #4

Is the icon supposed to have a psb extension? It looks like a typo.

Nop, it's a reference to Photoshop's Large Document Format. [1] [1]: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/file-formats.html#lar...

Cool. It's been a while since I've used Photoshop on a regular basis, so I'm out of the loop. It just seemed odd given that psd is used directly underneath the icon.

Re: Show HN: Sync Done Beautifully

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Post by solipsism »

shravan wrote: post #5
whiddershins wrote: post #2

This sounds incredible, obviously the details are everything. Would be nice to see a comparison to other solutions, and an explanation of how infinite storage is possible/economical.

Hey, one of the founders of Pixelapse here. For context, our target demographic is graphic designers. We initially started out with tiered pricing based on storage. However, based on usage, we actually found that people rarely hit their storage caps. A better barometer for us is the number of people working together, which we approximate with projects. In that regard, our pricing plans are similar to Github's. Public…

What products would you say are comparable to yours? Perforce comes to mind, though that's more of a "check out, check in" model, where this appears to be more of a dropbox model?

I'm not understanding how a version is identified, though. Is a version stored on the server every time the file is saved?

I don't see anything about locking. How do you prevent two people from working on the same unmergeable file at the same time?

Speaking of merging, there is no mention of merging of text files. Is that not supported?

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