Re:Ask HN: How did you get your product idea?
by cperciva on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @04:12PM
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I was just wondering how did you stumble upon the idea for your product? Was it born out of a problem, or?
Yes -- I needed good backups (I had seen people lose data and was having nightmares), needed them to be secure (as FreeBSD Security Officer I have sensitive information which I don't want to have released via my backups), and couldn't find any secure backup solutions available which I felt were trustworthy.
Yes -- I needed good backups (I had seen people lose data and was having nightmares), needed them to be secure (as FreeBSD Security Officer I have sensitive information which I don't want to have released via my backups), and couldn't find any secure backup solutions available which I felt were trustworthy.