# Average people Cloud portal powered by tardigrade **URL:** \ **Category:** Extended Community: Events & Developer Outreach\ **Created:** [October 20, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798 "2020-10-20T13:40:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buchette](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/buchette/32/6794_2.png) [@buchette](https://forum.storj.io/u/buchette)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/1 "2020-10-20T13:40:05Z")
Hi, i’ve been asked by average people if there are regular frontends for let’s say non IT people. Portals just like PCloud, DropBox, you name it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![littleskunk](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/littleskunk/32/63_2.png) [@littleskunk](https://forum.storj.io/u/littleskunk)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/2 "2020-10-20T16:11:25Z")
Duplicati and Filezilla 😉 ---
**Author:** ![buchette](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/buchette/32/6794_2.png) [@buchette](https://forum.storj.io/u/buchette)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/3 "2020-10-20T16:15:47Z")
sorry, i mean web based frontend. ---
**Author:** ![littleskunk](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/littleskunk/32/63_2.png) [@littleskunk](https://forum.storj.io/u/littleskunk)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/4 "2020-10-20T16:18:37Z")
Duplicati has a Web Frontend. Nextcloud might also work but I haven’t tested it. ---
**Author:** ![buchette](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/buchette/32/6794_2.png) [@buchette](https://forum.storj.io/u/buchette)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/5 "2020-10-20T16:20:31Z")
ok, thanks, but duplicati website is down for now…sad 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/6 "2020-10-21T22:50:22Z")
You also can run an [Tardigrade S3 Gateway](https://documentation.tardigrade.io/api-reference/s3-gateway) and use the network via browser [http://localhost:7777](http://localhost:7777) ---
**Author:** ![Andisers](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/andisers/32/1124_2.png) [@Andisers](https://forum.storj.io/u/Andisers)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/7 "2020-11-01T04:03:46Z")
It is up now. You can grab a copy here: [https://www.duplicati.com/download](https://www.duplicati.com/download) To be honest it is more complicated to set up tasks on Duplicati than simply running Dropbox. You would have to take care of the tasks by yourself manually, so it would be difficult to say it is for non tech savvy people as well as Dropbox is for them. Yet if Tardigrade is alternative to data storage services like AWS, I would say having a GUI front-end for casual users would not be one of the tasks that should be preferred; obviously AWS is not suitable for non tech savvy people. Becoming an alternative to both AWS and Dropbox at the same time must be a tough one, and you would not have to take that way. Just my two cents. ---
**Author:** ![BrightSilence](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/brightsilence/32/6048_2.png) [@BrightSilence](https://forum.storj.io/u/BrightSilence)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/8 "2020-11-04T22:49:31Z")
Pretty sure Dropbox runs on AWS or similar. That’s kind of how it works. There’s a backend and a customer application built on top of it. I’m sure Storj Labs would encourage anyone interested to build their web storage application on top of Tardigrade. Or switch their existing AWS backend to Tardigrade. ---
**Author:** ![marckt](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/marckt/32/62_2.png) [@marckt](https://forum.storj.io/u/marckt)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/9 "2020-11-05T07:33:52Z")
average people Not localhost:7777 & S3 Need Plug&play ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/10 "2020-11-05T07:42:44Z")
No, I do not suggest to use an aws CLI. You literally run a one docker container (or binary) and navigate to [http://localhost:7777](http://localhost:7777) in your browser. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![joesmoe](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/joesmoe/32/63_2.png) [@joesmoe](https://forum.storj.io/u/joesmoe)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/11 "2020-11-05T20:33:27Z")
They use to, i think they have setup their own network now (I remember reading about it when they switched over). ---
**Author:** ![BrightSilence](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/brightsilence/32/6048_2.png) [@BrightSilence](https://forum.storj.io/u/BrightSilence)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/12 "2020-11-05T20:47:51Z")
Yeah, I wasn’t entirely certain when I typed that. At their scale I guess it makes sense to spin up your own data centers. But my point still stands. Tardigrade is the platform that others can build a dropbox alternative on. So the best you will get for pure Tardigrade is duplicati or filezilla. Which are honestly pretty good considering you’re using an AWS class storage service. So I encourage people to give those a try if they’re looking for a more consumer like experience. But it will never be as simple as dropbox until someone builds a service like that on top of Tardigrade. ---
**Author:** ![Andisers](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/andisers/32/1124_2.png) [@Andisers](https://forum.storj.io/u/Andisers)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/13 "2020-11-10T02:47:33Z")
Hi there, > [@BrightSilence](#): > > Tardigrade is the platform that others can build a dropbox alternative on. I would completely agree with you, and also I truly hope someone would build a Dropbox-like service whose backend is Tardigrade, which is as useful and more secure, private, and distributed. > [@Andisers](#): > > Becoming an alternative to both AWS and Dropbox at the same time must be a tough one, and you would not have to take that way. My point was that Tardigrade development team themselves would not have to try to build a service which provides both functions of AWS and Dropbox. ---
**Author:** ![jennifer](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/jennifer/32/60_2.png) [@jennifer](https://forum.storj.io/u/jennifer)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/14 "2020-12-29T20:00:20Z")
This is definitely something I’d love to see. Perhaps someone here in the community would like to take a crack at building this 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jammerdan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/jammerdan/32/1121_2.png) [@jammerdan](https://forum.storj.io/u/jammerdan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/15 "2020-12-31T01:49:20Z")
> [@jennifer](#): > > This is definitely something I’d love to see. True. Or something like Mega. But honestly, for a single community member not possible to do. You’d need a company to handle that. I’d love to see Storjlabs to come up with a service like that. There was this transfer.sh thing which was really cool, but it got abandoned. ---
**Author:** ![kevink](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/kevink/32/6077_2.png) [@kevink](https://forum.storj.io/u/kevink)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/16 "2020-12-31T08:13:26Z")
An average people cloud portal would be something like dropbox and that already exists with nextcloud using tardigrade as main storage. But it’s still kind of centralized since you will always be downloading from a central server, not directly from the tardigrade network. ---
**Author:** ![Filebase](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/filebase/32/7202_2.png) [@Filebase](https://forum.storj.io/u/Filebase)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/17 "2021-03-03T21:29:36Z")
How about Filebase? [https://filebase.com/](https://filebase.com/) 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/18 "2021-03-04T18:22:08Z")
And also > [@\[Testers Needed\] Experimental Web Interface + Duplicati](https://forum.storj.io/t/testers-needed-experimental-web-interface-duplicati/11863): > > The Labs team is developing an experimental web interface for Storj/Tardigrade. We would love to get early feedback from select community members on the user experience, and help finding bugs. During this 2nd testing phase, data and accounts will be deleted frequently. For anyone who is interested in participating we are asking you apply [via this form](https://forms.gle/GqFmbP8ZALWXW7F18). Selected applications will receive an invite to a testing Slack channel and an access URL. Please note that during this phase data and accounts … ---
**Author:** ![jammerdan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/jammerdan/32/1121_2.png) [@jammerdan](https://forum.storj.io/u/jammerdan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/19 "2021-03-05T05:42:19Z")
Something like this? > **[Opacity Storage](https://www.opacity.io/sign-up)** > > Opacity provides encrypted cloud storage that never stores your personal data. Powered by OPCT crypto token. ---
**Author:** ![Alennx](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/alennx/32/6_449c533f586939b6e5f246632a46421f.png) [@Alennx](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alennx)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798/20 "2021-05-02T19:22:11Z")
@buchette I completely agree, this is a common mistake in early development (Note: Crypto) that stands directly in the way of adoption … There are many choices for file upload and Ease of Use is going to be top of the decision tree. I’m running a node and happy to do it but I haven’t uploaded any data because I have OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive already running … why would I burn all the time required to learn this new behavior just to put a file somewhere? GUI respects Time. [Next page](https://forum.storj.io/t/average-people-cloud-portal-powered-by-tardigrade/9798.md?page=2)