Thndrstrm, a decentralized personal server solution

5 points by tnash 9 years ago | 7 comments
  • Zalos 9 years ago
    Interesting idea but isen´t there completely free alternatives like OwnCloud? No mention of Open Source, something like this will likely not survive. I´m very skeptic in regards to something like this on crowdfunding. I´ve had a bad experience on indigogo where I lost $200+ because I trusted the creator. Besides it´s just bits and pieces of different services already created. iGoogle, Google Plus, Google Music, Smugmug, Plex? Gmail, Pushbullet, Google Calendar, Google Drive/Docs, Lastpass although I´m soon moving to Mooltipass. CMS? Wordpress,Ghost, Pico. There don´t seem to be a need for something like this, except perhaps your own control where OwnCloud covers quite a bit of it. And if it isen´t open source and you don´t host it yourself on your own servers then you aren´t in control.
    • zzalpha 9 years ago
      One of these days I hope to understand the modern fear of vowels...
      • mondoshawan 9 years ago
        Why why why is this PHP and MySQL? Can we please stop using stacks that do not scale and have severe security problems?
        • tnash 9 years ago
          PHP and MySQL are actually very fast, check out Tech Empower's benchmarks (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=...). Remember Facebook is built on PHP. For this purpose (distributed servers) it's a perfect stack. Easy to code for and very fast. Security is one of our primary concerns and I assure you that Thndrstrm has our users' privacy and security in mind at all times.
      • kitwalker12 9 years ago
        this is a kickstarter campaign. there's nothing for users to try out. why is this on Show HN?
        • burkesquires 9 years ago
          November 2016 seems like a long way off...