I see several use cases for something similar to this, especially now that 'firefox send' has been discontinued.
sharing homemade pics and videos that include nakedness or even controversial things are not best done via the big tech centralized solutions. Same with sharing non-homemade videos or music.
Other use cases come to mind for sensitive business comms and others.
I did not watch the video you mentioned about how it works - but scanning a few pages about the product I did not see anything about end-to-end encryption - so this product seems to not check off the needed boxes to do well what I think the use cases could be.
I also checked the pricing and feel that it does not lend itself to my trust cases either - free is nice but no skin in the game for sensitive things? I also generally do not invest in monthly/yearly pricing schemes - I like an option to buy once and use version X forever with self hosting options.
So my initial curiosity about the title and considering use cases is left with disappointment - although I do think something similar could be made and sold.
Interestingly "bitwarden' is also currently in the top couple pages of HN and it sounds similar, but looking into it - it's not.. but it does mention E2E - and mentions a self hosted option - although my initial poking around makes me think it's not for files just a passwd manager.
So that's 0 for 2 for me today, thinking by looking at the headlines someone may have created a friends only auth / E2E dbox / Firefox send replacement.
Use cases exist, and the big name options are not as private as many would like / use. I know reasons.. but still one can hope :)
sharing homemade pics and videos that include nakedness or even controversial things are not best done via the big tech centralized solutions. Same with sharing non-homemade videos or music.
Other use cases come to mind for sensitive business comms and others.
I did not watch the video you mentioned about how it works - but scanning a few pages about the product I did not see anything about end-to-end encryption - so this product seems to not check off the needed boxes to do well what I think the use cases could be.
I also checked the pricing and feel that it does not lend itself to my trust cases either - free is nice but no skin in the game for sensitive things? I also generally do not invest in monthly/yearly pricing schemes - I like an option to buy once and use version X forever with self hosting options. So my initial curiosity about the title and considering use cases is left with disappointment - although I do think something similar could be made and sold.
Interestingly "bitwarden' is also currently in the top couple pages of HN and it sounds similar, but looking into it - it's not.. but it does mention E2E - and mentions a self hosted option - although my initial poking around makes me think it's not for files just a passwd manager.
So that's 0 for 2 for me today, thinking by looking at the headlines someone may have created a friends only auth / E2E dbox / Firefox send replacement.
Use cases exist, and the big name options are not as private as many would like / use. I know reasons.. but still one can hope :)