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I feel the home page should have input vs output examples. A picture tells 1000 words. I don't want to signup unless I see the value.


This x1000. Lots of examples.


It isn't just developer experience.

- Can I trust you?

- Where are your company credentials?

- What's the business continuity plan?

- What's your support? Sending an email to hi@ may not work, when my application is dead because of some bug at your end.


I agree with your concerns, but wow do I miss the 1990s/2000s era of the internet. Things were so much more fun then.

Perhaps a 'mirror to S3-compatible store' feature would address these concerns though. Sure it is extra cost, but it would be a nice de-risking option for early adopters.


> I agree with your concerns, but wow do I miss the 1990s/2000s era of the internet. Things were so much more fun then.

Yeah in one way people were much more casual and curious. But keep in mind everything back then were monoliths. You’d just upload files to your server. Some of the complications of trust comes from the fact that you need microservices with custom API credentials and usage quotas in order to run leftpad at web scale.

If you zoom out and think where we are today it’s absolutely insane that uploading a file 20 years later is a closed source subscription service. Nothing against OPs project, but goddamn look at us.


Everyday I am more convinced that open sourcing developer products makes more sense than ever, if a service is very critical and something breaks, you just jump in and fix it yoursef.

Nevertheless, its nice seeing crappy aws products getting fixed.


There is a huge continuum from scrappy startup all the way to the point where you ask this kind of questions before even touching something new.


Yeah you addressed the elephant in the room.

Obviously it's a brand new product, with 0 reputation. As with every new product at the begining I expect bugs and disruptions, but IMO the product is simple enough to get it right quickly. FILE0 a simple layer on top of R2, so for reliability and HA is majorly dependant of their system.

You can trust me as much as any random guy on the internet.

For a big cloud provider you will be just a number, they don't particularly care if you're happy or not, but what I can tell you that for me you're my #1 priority. If you're happy, FILE0 survives. If not all the effort building it goes to the bin.

What's missing from the product is the ability to share apps (aka buckets) with your co-workers. If thats a feature you can live without momentarily, businesses can ask for a custom offer if 100GB is not enough. But they won't be billed after seats or any of that crap. Just for usage.

That all being said, I would love to setup a call and have a personal connection, and I'm here to help with anything you might need. I'll enrich the page with more obvious contact details, because it's a legit concern I'd also have.


It seems like they’re asking you to write out your plans and what makes you trustworthy on the website. Talking to people 1:1 won’t solve that problem.

Saying “you can’t trust me” isn’t a good look for a SaaS.


> Saying “you can’t trust me” isn’t a good look for a SaaS.

It worked out for Facebook.

I’m kinda happy about that since we can now use it as an example.

But more importantly, it’s realistic. You should absolutely expect someone to walk away with all your data and zero recourse.


It’s not realistic. I can trust the many other object storage providers.


Because inevitability this is what happens.


Can it answer customer support questions on API's cryptic error messages? E.g. Give hints on changes needed in the request payload.


Assuming you can link the source code for the API's logic - that should work. Mileage may vary depending on exactly how vague the message are. For example if a single error message could mean 10 disjointed things, might not be able to exhaustively list them.



There is another hosted mock Beeceptor.com

it has support for http mocking, intercepting, proxying, tunneling and single click OAS Mock setup.


Another good alternative https://beeceptor.com/

* named subdomain / endpoints

* Build Rest API and Mocking responses

* HTTP Intercepting

* HTTP Proxy pass

* nice UI, live updating, json formatting, sharable requests, etc


Http://beeceptor.com is another hosted one. And it gives named endpoints for drop-in replacement for API base url.


In India, all politicians have to make their income sources, cash in hand, investments, Income Tax ID, un-movable assets, etc in a public affidavit to Election Commission of India.


Why not use Kibana?


I'm a fan of Kibana, but AnyChart does support some more templates (not that you couldn't accomplish the same chart in either). There's a million of these visualization libraries now and it seems like all of them are basically extensions of D3, so the selling point is the opinionated integrations.

That being said TimeLion has been great for doing some basic exploratory work.


Thank you Voltagex for submitting it. I am the author of the tool. Will be happy to answer any questions.


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