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.
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.
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.
> 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
