Sounds interesting, but the site needs a lot more information: how does it work, who is behind it, etc. Right now the entire site appears to a splash page with a signup form.
We will be adding lot more information in the coming days. We will publish a white paper on the backend tech to be completely transparent on how data is being handled. Please bear with us. Please do signup so we can send you early invite.
I worked on this concept for a while, it's very interesting to work over the "fog" instead of the cloud. Calling fog to all those devices around you and connected to your WiFi instead of devices on some datacenter, it's a nice and interesting technology for distributed storage. If you think about how many devices we've and the storage available on those, it's an interesting concept to work on. Kudos to this guys.
Suggestion - I'm looking around for an alternative to Google Drive right now - triggered by Google deprecating the old MacOS version and forcing me to "upgrade", but that's largely (for me) a trigger for me to take the opportunity to reduce my reliance on Google.
If there are other people in my position (and I hear people talking about extricating themselves from Google's grip lately) - an alternative pitch might be "Google Drive alternative" instead of "Dropbox alternative"...
Thanks bigiain for the suggestion. Just mentioned so since Dropbox is in the news. We are essentially an alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive.
> BoxSync is available for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. More platforms coming soon.
Very interested in this. Will wait for Linux support and how well it's implemented.
Currently using Cryptomator in conjunction with cloud services. Even with encryption at rest, I'd much rather do (as /u/nicolasbistolfi called it - did he just coin a new phrase?) fog syncing.
As mentioned in the other comment, cloud may be involved if personal machines are behind firewall/NAT (all data to cloud will be encrypted and passed through with no persistence what so ever). Although the product tries to punch holes with UPnP, it may not always be successful. The other reason is for us to make money. Any alternate monetisation ideas?
The product enables you create a seamless personal cloud among your own computers. Although there are no servers involved for storing the data, there are servers involved for enabling seamless connection between your computers when they are behind firewall/NAT.
