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Re:Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12) by calinet6 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @03:12PM (#7605683)
This is a huge problem with SAAS in general. The ephemerality not only of our data, but of the entire service, is highly disturbing.

Next time I buy a tool, I'm going to look for something I can hold in my hand (metaphorically speaking), and use until I decide not to.

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Re:Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12) by zheshishei on Thursday April 17, 2014 @04:46PM (#7606206)
I guess it's time to go back to standalone desktop apps?
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Re:Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12) by bentcorner on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:51PM (#7606665)
Selfhosting isn't out of the question.

Maybe there's a middle ground? If someone provided me with a VPS but made it really easy to self-host applications from a curated list, I'd be all over that.

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Re:Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12) by calinet6 on Friday April 18, 2014 @11:28PM (#7612477)
Self-hosted auto-updated service nodes, that run on your own cloud-connected server. All your data, your encryption, your permissions, everything.

Then you connect to your services via any thin client (just thumbprint on any terminal anywhere and you're logged in). Any screen, any device, anywhere.

Someday.

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Re:Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12) by mpyne on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:30PM (#7606526)
Some of us never left...
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Re:Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12) by 6cxs2hd6 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:52PM (#7606675)
It's a problem with unnecessarily monolithic SaaS, where everyone reinvents e.g. the storage piece of it.

You should be able to tell XYZ service to work with your photos as stored on Amazon S3. Or stored on, what's that other company, starts with a D...?

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