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Show HN: CloudBuddy – Pay less for online storage

by CloudBuddy on 11/18/17, 9:27 PM with 28 comments

  • by jlgaddis on 11/18/17, 11:41 PM

    Hosted on a Comcast cable business account?

    That's not reassuring as far as availability goes.

    Updated: No info on the company, domain registration is private, registered agent for the corporation is one of those "registered agent services" that lets the owner(s) hide their identity, and the physical address listed (edit: on their contact page) is a post office.

    Yeah, pretty sure I'm not uploading any files to you. Nice try, though; you get points for the attempt.

  • by mtmail on 11/18/17, 11:45 PM

    I'd worry it attracts the lower end of storage needs, those users in the $1-$3/month range, who wouldn't want to sign up to Dropbox or OneDrive ($7/month). Spending 15 minutes on a support email can already void profits, you wouldn't have much budget for customer acquisition, and it's hard to raise prices when the main selling point seems to be the low price.

  • by nkkollaw on 11/18/17, 11:37 PM

    Why not, but if you target devs and people in the IT field, they can do that themselves.

    I would have signed up for a trial if you had some sort of app that made it easier to transfer files. I saw the instructions, and they're a pain. As a developer, I have 3TB of unused storage from a few OVH servers—some of it with automatic failover based on GlusterFS: I can just mount that and copy files via the Finder or terminal.

    I guess I don't get it.

  • by gubby on 11/19/17, 12:33 AM

    "We send you a email to let you know that we are having difficulty charging your credit card. The email will also let you know that you have one week to resolve the issue [...]. If for some reason we are unable to charge your credit card within that time, your account (including all of your files) will be deleted."

    One week!

  • by VoidWhisperer on 11/18/17, 11:34 PM

    I'm confused on how you think this is 'less'. Onedrive is $6.99 a month for what you would charge $100 for.

  • by chrislomax on 11/19/17, 12:43 AM

    How does this beat Backblaze? I pay $5 a month and I’ve no data caps?

    I know I can’t start at a dollar but I can’t imagine many people backing up 0-10gb a month and that’s it

  • by jlgaddis on 11/18/17, 11:35 PM

    Two weeks from now: "CloudBuddy drops first month free due to rampant abuse"

  • by dorfsmay on 11/19/17, 12:51 AM

    sftp only?