Welcome to Cloudintosh

https://cloudintosh.sharedigm.com

by jdkee • 5 years ago

69 34 5 years ago

cloudintosh.sharedigm.com

I know this is such a stereotypical HN comment, but... I can't tell what this is. I tried reading the about page, then the rest; some sort of cloud app platform with branding that I would not want to defend in court.

jackson1442• 5 years ago

It looks like some sort of cloud nas? I can’t tell either.

The look+feel being like “something-intosh” is waaaay too emphasized. If they just mirrored the design language it’d be one thing, but this seems like it’s _asking_ for a cease and desist.

BoorishBears2• 5 years ago

I don't get how you can miss this so badly?

Like I clicked expecting a synergy focused neo-textual presentation vis-à-vis the Macintosh

But literally the first line of text my eyes laid on was the explanation, it's cloud "OSX".

Clicking on About made it clear the OSX part was just the look and feel, and so did the Apps page.

And I mean, it also feels like a bit of parody so that'd be ruined by beating you over the head with "*not actual OSX" everywhere on the oage

ToFab123• 5 years ago

I tried to watch the first part of the video, but have still no idea what this is about. Something with sharing files.

sembilan• 5 years ago

Web based operating system on someone else's computer you can access via browser.

znpy2• 5 years ago

I can't tell what this is.

Joke: it's a way to get sued by apple. The name "cloudintosh" is just a bait.

On a more serious note: it reminds me of a pure-in-broswer "operating system" that of course had server-side apis for anything persistent... I played with one a lot of time ago.

I just found the name of the thing: it's eyeOS -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS

gjvc• 5 years ago

page font is wrong; should be Garamond with 0.8 aspect ratio

yjftsjthsd-h2• 5 years ago

Usually this would be... Non-constructive, but since they're trying to perfectly rip off MacOS, surely it counts as useful feedback.

amegahed4• 5 years ago

I switched the page font back to Garamond. I had it as Garamond originally but switched to Geneva because I thought it was more readable. Better?

rovr138• 5 years ago

I'm not sure what's up with all the links not having the right events/effects on them but it's messing with knowing what can be clicked on.

pronoiac• 5 years ago

From the About page, https://cloudintosh.sharedigm.com/#about

Cloudintosh is a place for you to store, access, and share your digital world using the look and feel of your favorite operating system. It combines a cloud storage system and operating system with a social network so that it’s easy to work with and share your data. It's based upon the Sharedigm cloud OS so it combines a modern cloud OS with the look and feel of your favorite OS.

It looks like it's intended to look like a persistent desktop machine you can access from a browser or a mobile app.

scoopertrooper• 5 years ago

From watching their video, it doesn't seem like so complex a system.

It's basically airdrop, but over the internet instead of your local network.

temp89643• 5 years ago

I don't have a problem with the general idea, a full OS experience from the browser, but why would I trust my data with a random company?

It would be fine for me to use a CloudWindows from MS, because most my data are already in OneDrive. Or a CloudMac from Apple. But not any other companies.

beebeepka2• 5 years ago

I know what you mean. The devil you know is better than the one you don't.

We know for sure these megacorps have been selling or handi6 over all our data for decades. Do we really want some minor league players getting a taste of it? Hell no. Evil has to be concentrated, distilled, and big

temp89643• 5 years ago

I don’t think megacorps have been selling “all” our data.

usui2• 5 years ago

Watch the intro video, it explains you can host an instance yourself thereby keeping the data to yourself. There's also a setup guide: https://cloudintosh.sharedigm.com/#help/setting-up

temp89643• 5 years ago

Thanks! Selfhosting is a great idea.

User23• 5 years ago

I would absolutely love a classic Mac OS theme for OS X. Something like the System 6 look. Maybe System 7 if I'm feeling modern.

areoform• 5 years ago

I made an account, tried it out. It's incredible! I have a question. I can see that I can edit code inside of it. Can I also run a REPL or execute something like node and do web dev on this?

amegahed4• 5 years ago

I've been tinkering with a to mount remote file systems of various kinds using Sharedigm/Cloudintosh. By mounting your web server's code directory as an SFTP file system, it would allow for a nice, intuitive way to view and edit your remote code files. This would make web development a bit more pleasant.

tiew9Vii• 5 years ago

I have a 100Mbps internet connection. I nearly closed the page thinking it was broken as I sat looking at a blank white screen.

Only 10 seconds later as i was moving the cursor to close tab button did it render. On looking the homepage is 11M of artifacts and as it's a single page app nothing is rendered until it's all downloaded.

Terrible UX.

scns• 5 years ago

Facebook downloaded 38MB of JavaScript. Needs to be parsed on a single thread.

usui2• 5 years ago

For people confused about the functions, it's worth checking out the project this was based on which has a more expansive about page and user data policy: https://sharedigm.com

Cloudintosh is more of a frontend theme wrapped over sharedigm.com

amegahed4• 5 years ago

Hi. Yes, you've got it.

Cloudintosh is a bit of an UX experiment in how to generalize the theming process to allow the UI to be skinnable enough to emulate (and perhaps extend) the environment that you feel comfortable with. Sharedigm's theming system can also roughly emulate WindowsXP, Windows10, and Windows11, Ubuntu etc.

The core idea, though is to be able to have a "personal cloud" where the user is able to make those decisions.

znpy2• 5 years ago

It looks like an in-browser OS.

eyeOS used to do something similar, starting from 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS

zhte415• 5 years ago

Right click is disabled. Nice.

whywhywhywhy• 5 years ago

For something that the selling point is it looks like MacOS, it doesn't actually look anything like MacOS in the ways that someone who cares about that would care about.

People who care about how their OS looks and feels are extremely detail orientated in whats correct and what isn't in their OS. E.g there absolutely should not be in window menus for anything trying to replicate MacOS.

throwawayswede• 5 years ago

Terribly slow to load, absolutely horrible UX.

That moving/flying background windows is beyond horrible, spent 3 seconds trying to understand what this is and then the dizziness started to hit me.

That is not to mention that from I saw in the video, it looks like a knockoff mac, and not a very good one either.

amegahed4• 5 years ago

This is a web OS in the sense that you can build desktop like apps on top of it. I'm currently building a ray tracing application on top of the Sharedigm OS and I imagine that others have applications like this that they'd like to move to the cloud while also preserving a desktop like user experience.

Question: If this platform were released as open source or fair source, is there an audience of people that would consider building applications on top of it?

It's an appealing idea, but I have a feeling that today, most wouldn't even consider building on top of anything that's not provided by Apple/Google/MS.

shantnutiwari• 5 years ago

Looks good-- my only question is-- there is no price. Is it free forever? Ad supported?

I know you can host your own instance , but what happens if I use the hosted service? How do the devs pay for running costs?

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