I agree with this comment except for the keep going part. It seems you've spent a lot of time building this but not a lot of time considering the value proposition. I think there is nobility in stopping projects, and this one seems liable to eat another year of your life if you continue as you have.
This is harsh. Any creator knows the feeling of pouring time and effort into something, the anticipation of showing it to people, the excitement of making people happy, the doubts of being judged and criticised. And the crushing feeling of seeing negative feedback.
I appreciate that you're trying to save some kind of longer-term pain and to encourage loss-cutting, but I think the tradeoff of the damage you can do with a two sentence comment
that takes a couple of seconds to fire off vs the hundreds of hours that went into creating something like this, far outweighs the potential benefit (though it seems the creator took it graciously).
To me it seems like a "benefit of the doubt" applies here. The creator obviously saw a need and tried to fill it. As someone who has spent hundreds of hours dealing with Dropbox and S3 APIs, I believe there definitely is room for a far simpler service. Sometimes you just want to dump a file somewhere and retrieve it.
This looks to me like it could grow into the sqlite of the filestorage world, where Dropbox is probably the MySQL. It looks slightly rough around the edges, but very promising, and I will be watching development with great interest.
Yes, that was the point of posting this show HN, to see if there is any market demand. I have a few other products in the pipeline and more ideas which are probably more promising.
If nothing else, we use bitbox.co as an internal file storage mechanism for our other upcoming products. We're currently using it in one that is yet to be announced / released.
