Looking for feedback on a new project
Hey, all! I’m working on a new project to upgrade our self-hosting capabilities. It’s a cloud storage alternative to Nextcloud and Owncloud. They were too complex for my tastes so I wrote my own! It let’s you choose your storage directory and upload/download to and from it over the internet. That’s it!
Right now I’m thinking $9.99 for a LIFETIME purchase DRM FREE. Is that reasonable?
Alternatively I was wondering if maybe instead I should try to sell cloud storage itself? I’m really passionate about the cloud stuff I’ve been building and I’m looking for a way to finance getting deeper into it and further development.
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Nextcloud server has 907 contributors, and 2672 Open issues and 37970 Closed. That is without the desktop client, the mobile apps (multiple), and everything around (viewers, editors, voice/video/IM app, and so on. It’s packaged in 101 different ways, enough of them being all kinds of one command/click/etc. install, and you can even buy it directly managed and hosted and everything from multiple providers, including (but not limited) from NextCloud themselves. I think it’s extremely hard to compete in any way, even if you have something much simpler.
That and https://filebrowser.org is free.
It let’s you choose your storage directory and upload/download to and from it over the internet. That’s it!
VPN + network share…?
Right now I’m thinking $9.99 for a LIFETIME purchase DRM FREE. Is that reasonable?
From the single sentence explaining what it does, absolutely not. I can choose a directory and share it within 10 minutes.
Alternatively I was wondering if maybe instead I should try to sell cloud storage itself?
You aren’t the first person to come up with this idea, nor will you be the last.
a way to finance getting deeper into it
Better finance some lawyers first. What are you going to do as soon as you get a DMCA notice? Or if one of your tenants store something super illegal? Lmao
Those questions are why I’m hesitant about hosting and would prefer to just sell the software to host. Also, your profile says you have a huge setup. Running your own cloud is obviously something you can do, but most people can’t. My app would be for them.