This seems like a very ambitious project, which is great. It does seem at risk of boiling the ocean. They're taking on:
* NAS device with encrypted file storage and UPNP
* setting up a VPN
* client software for said VPN on each platform (or at least installers that can configure each platform's native VPN support)
* multi-device file sync
* whole-device file sync, with client software for each platform, presumably with subtle kernel-level code (those "patent-pending technologies")
* versioned backup
* "instant file transfer" (presumably this is just their streaming tech repackaged, but it's a separate UX to develop and maintain)
* streaming file delivery across varying-bandwidth connections
* presumably media player apps on each mobile client platform to consume said streaming media
Each of those things is plausible, putting them together makes a lot of sense at the product level, and it would be a godsend if they can do it well. I guess I just wonder why they're not raising $5M rather than $100k.
(Maybe the team is actually an established company with 20 engineers, and the Kickstarter is purely to bankroll the initial production run? It's not clear from the team bio.)
* NAS device with encrypted file storage and UPNP
* setting up a VPN
* client software for said VPN on each platform (or at least installers that can configure each platform's native VPN support)
* multi-device file sync
* whole-device file sync, with client software for each platform, presumably with subtle kernel-level code (those "patent-pending technologies")
* versioned backup
* "instant file transfer" (presumably this is just their streaming tech repackaged, but it's a separate UX to develop and maintain)
* streaming file delivery across varying-bandwidth connections
* presumably media player apps on each mobile client platform to consume said streaming media
Each of those things is plausible, putting them together makes a lot of sense at the product level, and it would be a godsend if they can do it well. I guess I just wonder why they're not raising $5M rather than $100k.
(Maybe the team is actually an established company with 20 engineers, and the Kickstarter is purely to bankroll the initial production run? It's not clear from the team bio.)