Show HN: We're simplifying personal cloud storage for apps

http://stashkit.co/

by rgbrgb • 13 years ago

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state• 13 years ago

Although I'm sure I'm in the minority, I would love to see something like this go straight through to S3.

Services on top of services on top of...

eberyvody2• 13 years ago

Services!

rgbrgb6• 13 years ago

Yeah, we'd love to do that too after the big consumer players are covered. With all of the security certificates and such, any ideas on what an implementation would look like? You can't just oauth with S3 ;).

rafstone2• 13 years ago

This could prove to be very useful tool.

rafstone2• 13 years ago

When do you expect we can get an invite?

rgbrgb6• 13 years ago

Invites will roll out within the next couple months.

eberyvody2• 13 years ago

Yeah, if it became standard it could make your phone even more like a computer. Could open up a lot of possibilities.

rgbrgb6• 13 years ago

Hey everyone, Peter from StashKit here. We're working really hard to make it as simple to use personal clouds as it is to use the S3 style data silos everyone has now. I'd be happy to answer any questions. We'd love to get feedback from the HN community.

lbarrow• 13 years ago

I like the idea of removing costs (file storage in this case) from services by having consumers pay for them elsewhere. It seems like it could allow people to build some more interesting business models.

rgbrgb6• 13 years ago

Yes! We had been kicking around this idea of building a version of Snapchat where all of the photos are stored in your personal cloud storage. Could we build a Twitter or Facebook that way? The problem we ran up against is how you'd choose a single storage provider to support. We came to the conclusion that you'd want some kind of transport layer to make that easy. StashKit is that transport layer combined with some widgets to make integration a breeze for devs and users.

I'm working on a little blogpost about the cool new app architectures these personal clouds suggest.

hst• 13 years ago

Sounds cool. How does it work exactly?

rgbrgb6• 13 years ago

Top secret! Just kidding. We basically wrap first party cloud service API's into a consistent StashKit API and provide widgets similar to the ones Dropbox gives for picking files and doing authentication. Of course, unlike the dropbox widget, ours works with all of the providers.

mrgreenfur• 13 years ago

Isn't this the fog gem?

ew• 13 years ago

Sounds like what http://mover.io is doing, but with a dash of http://filepicker.io

rgbrgb6• 13 years ago

While it does integrate with the same services as your app, I really don't see any other similarities. We've definitely looked at filepicker.io but we have a slightly different approach to the user experience and a more scalable client architecture.

melodymcc• 13 years ago

Love this idea!

mrambin• 13 years ago

Great idea!

samuel1604• 13 years ago

Would love to see OpenStack/Ceph there.

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