Re:Show HN: Pantry – Free JSON Storage for Personal Projects
by marktangotango on Thursday April 30, 2020 @07:41PM
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Of course it’s appropriate! From the docs this service doesn’t even meet the “viable” part of MVP! Ok a user can post some json that’s public (no authentication) and doesn’t even work across domains (CORS).
Suppose adding those things and targeting “mobile backend as a service” or even more general “backend as service” there is still a lot to be desired. Like static html, ok you’re competition is Firebase.
How’s Firebase doing these days?
Re:Show HN: Pantry – Free JSON Storage for Personal Projects
by fiveSpeedManual on Thursday April 30, 2020 @07:59PM
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Thanks for the kind words and for understanding where I'm coming from, and my perspective :)
Re:Show HN: Pantry – Free JSON Storage for Personal Projects
by pmiller2 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @07:39PM
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"Sell me on X vs. Y." is a colloquialism. It's just a different way of asking "what are the benefits of X over Y."
Re:Show HN: Pantry – Free JSON Storage for Personal Projects
by strogonoff on Thursday April 30, 2020 @08:50PM
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We’re talking welcoming a stranger sharing the result of their work with “but what are the benefits of your free solution over megacorp Z’s paid offering Y?”.
Re:Show HN: Pantry – Free JSON Storage for Personal Projects
by whalesalad on Friday May 01, 2020 @12:44AM
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That is your interpretation but not my meaning.
Is this question really appropriate? The developer is sharing a pro bono offering, where does selling anyone on it against a commercial service even come into play?
It looks like a project that must have been fun to make and could be useful for storing non-sensitive data with very little hassle. Long bucket IDs appear to leave little chance for name collision.
If you are building a piece of software that deals with anything remotely like PII or has specific availability requirements, I sincerely hope this is not something you are seriously considering (otherwise, pardon me, I hope I won’t be your user or customer), starting from the fact that you aren’t paying for it and there is no SLA.