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Re:Ask HN: how to start a startup when you need a proper salary by CloudBuddy on Monday September 10, 2018 @04:49PM (#17955078)
Fortunately, you don't need to quit your day job nor live a crazy lifestyle in order to launch a startup. All you have to do is commit to working on it 5 minutes per day and it will happen.

This is what I followed when I built CloudBuddy (https://cloudbuddy.cloud). For any side project it starts off being exciting and looking like a climbable mountain. Then when you start to get into it, it seems daunting. Each day I would tell myself that I am going to put one foot in front of the other and walk up the mountain. No matter how slow it seems, I will make it to the top. Some days I was so burned out; those were the days that I only worked 5 minutes on it and called it a day. Other days, I was into it and naturally blew beyond the 5 minutes.

It took me 2 years and 3 months to launch CloudBuddy (which has paying users). There isn't anything special about me or my circumstances - I'm married, have a child and have a day job.

If your having difficulty starting or working consistently on your side project and it would help to have someone to talk to, email or drop me a line. My contact info is in my profile.

Re:Ask HN: how to start a startup when you need a proper salary by tixocloud on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:07AM (#17959781)
Really cool that you've built this simple service. How did you reach out to your initial customers initially?

Also, assuming it's just a storage service at the moment? :) I'm in need of storing docker containers on behalf of customers.

Re:Ask HN: how to start a startup when you need a proper salary by CloudBuddy on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:59PM (#17963315)
To date I haven't specifically tried to reach out directly to potential users. I've just been posting on Hacker News!

CloudBuddy doesn't currently support storing Docker containers.

Here is a write up on 3 that do: https://www.nirmata.com/2017/03/14/comparing-container-image...

With pricing on those 3 here: - DockerHub (https://hub.docker.com/billing-plans/) - Amazon Elastic Container Registry (https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/pricing/) - JFrog (https://jfrog.com/pricing/#on-prem)

If you need something more custom, let me know and I can brainstorm with you (my contact info is in my profile).

Re:Ask HN: how to start a startup when you need a proper salary by user1324345 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:08AM (#17957116)
How is this different than just using s3?
Re:Ask HN: how to start a startup when you need a proper salary by CloudBuddy on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:27AM (#17958710)
With CloudBuddy, it costs $1 per 10GB per month and setup takes less than 1 minute.

s3 is both more expensive and much more involved to setup. With s3, it takes longer than 1 minute just to be able to figure out the pricing! LOL

Here is a link to s3 if your curious https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B0764CYKPB (I found this by googling SFTP Gateway to Amazon S3)