hey HN, and thank you todsacerdoti for posting it!
This is a feature that we wanted for a long time, but we also wanted to get it right. It's somehow the equivalent of storing files and images in an S3 bucket and then putting URLs to them in the database, but then you have to take care of keeping things in sync, take care of security permissions, delete the files when the database row is deleted, etc. We automate all that for you and even more: we cache the files in a CDN, and if they are images we support transformations out of the box.
This is a feature that we wanted for a long time, but we also wanted to get it right. It's somehow the equivalent of storing files and images in an S3 bucket and then putting URLs to them in the database, but then you have to take care of keeping things in sync, take care of security permissions, delete the files when the database row is deleted, etc. We automate all that for you and even more: we cache the files in a CDN, and if they are images we support transformations out of the box.