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0 pointsstrogonoff5y ago0 comments

> How would you sell me on Pantry vs. AWS S3?

Is this question really appropriate? The developer is sharing a pro bono offering, where does selling anyone on it against a commercial service even come into play?

It looks like a project that must have been fun to make and could be useful for storing non-sensitive data with very little hassle. Long bucket IDs appear to leave little chance for name collision.

If you are building a piece of software that deals with anything remotely like PII or has specific availability requirements, I sincerely hope this is not something you are seriously considering (otherwise, pardon me, I hope I won’t be your user or customer), starting from the fact that you aren’t paying for it and there is no SLA.

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marktangotango5y ago

Of course it’s appropriate! From the docs this service doesn’t even meet the “viable” part of MVP! Ok a user can post some json that’s public (no authentication) and doesn’t even work across domains (CORS).

Suppose adding those things and targeting “mobile backend as a service” or even more general “backend as service” there is still a lot to be desired. Like static html, ok you’re competition is Firebase.

How’s Firebase doing these days?

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fiveSpeedManual5y ago

Thanks for the kind words and for understanding where I'm coming from, and my perspective :)

pmiller25y ago

"Sell me on X vs. Y." is a colloquialism. It's just a different way of asking "what are the benefits of X over Y."

strogonoffOP5y ago

We’re talking welcoming a stranger sharing the result of their work with “but what are the benefits of your free solution over megacorp Z’s paid offering Y?”.

whalesalad5y ago

That is your interpretation but not my meaning.

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