Well, we have a readme file on Github of various tools that support Storj
Because it can be net negative and opportunity cost on more than one level. Itâs best to focus on one thing and do it extremely well, than half-arse multiple things, even if this seems profitable in the short term.
Letâs take B2 as a specific example of that competitor you mentioned. They offer Personal and Business backup app, where you pay fixed price per month and backup unlimited data, and that claims to be just that â set it and forget it.
Iâve tried it. I think you all know where itâs going⌠I"ll save you a wall of text, and just say that the software is crap, performance is horrible, itâs completely non-deterministic â your changed files may be enqueued to be backed up for up to 48 hours! while the app uploads transient garbage from the cache directories, that they did not bother to exclude, heck, they even did not exclude their own cache directory from time machine backup; itâs a massive resource hog, and when I borough up poorly documented config file for the exclusions, that wasnât updated in the last 8 years, judging by the entires there, in a discussion with Backblaze rep on Reddit â the sentiment was that â well, we donât mind that trash data is being uploaded all the time, our systems can handle it just fine, itâs a small percentage of all data. But this is not customer perspective. From customer perspective if I edit text file â I want it backed up ASAP, not in 30 hours, after it is done uploading browser caches clogging my upstream connection with this garbage for hours.
I donât want to say that their software developers are incompetent, but this has, been, and always will be low priority side gig, that they just consider quick cash grab and donât really want/can/will invest enough engineering time into.
This however threw a massive shadow on their whole operation: if they can sleep at night releasing this end-user visible steaming pile, how does stuff that users donât see look?. I looked at them with more scrutiny (discovered some issues that happened in the past that should not have happened at that stage of product maturity), and ultimately took my data, including B2, elsewhere.
To summarize, they have spent time and resources half-arsing an app outside of their core competency, and drove at least three customers of their core product away (me and two more folks I drove away).
If Storj offered a backup app â I would not use it. First of all, itâs too new, with unclear reliability, from a company that does not specialize in a user facing apps, with unknown future â when will they decide that this was a distraction and abandon it?
Now look at Arq. This is one thing the dude is doing for the past 12 years, and still fixing bugs and implementing features. Thatâs a backup app.
Arq offers Premium service, where you pay them fixed amount of money per TB and they offer the app for free for 5 accounts to share that space. They use Google Cloud Storage.
What if instead of wasting time developing an app from scratch, storj sales folks make an enticing offer to Arq to switch to STORJ to power the premium service? Selling point being â performance, due to proximity to everyone, and cost, being the fraction of Google charges. If this works out â BAM â storj has the same out come as if they have developed Arq from scratch, they save 12 years of engineering time
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This is where you can find the list you asked for:
Again, as mentioned before, Storj is not meant to be a solution for end users, so most of the tools you will find that integrate with Storj are focused on Enterprise users, which are our target customers.
Here is the guide that explains how to Guide for Integrating Arq Backup Software with Storj - Storj Docs
Iâm talking about their Arq Premium service, backed by Google Cloud Storage today, not the standalone Arq app that you can use with bring-your-own-storage, including STORJ.
Iâm bringing this point up second time, and both times I"m pointed on configuring STORJ as a target in ARQ. I know about this, and itâs not what Iâm talking about.
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Still think itâs a no brainer to at least make a rclone mount script of some sorts for windows users. This doesnt have to be fancy. Just mounted with start and networkâŚ
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Again, you are missing the point.
âMakingâ is not a problem. You can make one in about 15 minutes, no coding skills required. Just use Task Scheduler and run rclone mount on start.
The problem is making this thing a user facing product, maintaining it, and supporting customers who will keep finding ways to shot themselves in the foot when the real bugs have been exhausted.
Do you know why there is no decent UI for rclone? Because itâs an insurmountable task.
I put together script for myself some time back to mount rclone remotes in the UI on macOS here GitHub - arrogantrabbit/rclone_mounter: Platypus script for simple UI to mount and unmount rclone remotes on macOS. Making this into a product is a separate business plan.
Feel free to start such a company 
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Support should be forum.
Can always pointed out when stalling.
It doesnât have to be beautiful, as long as it works. Install necessary packafe ask for cres abd mount with start up. User can umount by right click or disable in startup. Mustnt be that hard⌠but yet again i cant code XD
Run as an Administrator
schtasks.exe /Create /TN "rclone-mount" /RU DESKTOP-FQAR4\USER /RP /SC ONSTART /TR "rclone mount storj: C:\Users\USER\Storj\ --vfs-cache-mode=full --no-console"
Where storj: is a remote name with Storj DCS connection, DESKTOP-FQAR4\USER is your user, C:\Users\USER\Storj\ is a folder to mount. You may also mount as a letter, but there is some problems with isolation, and the simplest way would be to create a task to run after login, not on start, however you may also use a SYSTEM user, see rclone mount
And now you would have a folder Storj in your home folder connected to your Storj DCS buckets.
You may check it to trigger the scheduled task right now
schtasks.exe /Run /TN "rclone-mount"
Or you can create this scheduled task via Task Scheduler GUI and run/stop it from the Task Scheduler GUI.
yes and know you make this user friendlyâŚ
Whatâs your DCS Connection.? âŚ
Whatâs your Windows User name? âŚ
Which Folder you want to mount Rclone on? âŚ
Maybe link to forum/doc entry for more explanation.
I am not really doing it for me, I have a storagenode, but I like to see my family non-tech people use it some day. This doesnât have to be fancy. If it works for 90% of the people itâs okay. Call it the first way for not savy tech people to use storj and its benefits.
You can even say that Storj doesnât official support it so there wonât be support from you guys.
But there would be for everyone a simple way to mount it.
Can believe that a group of coders like you can whip it up in a week
Now I will shut up and you donât hear me again 
Guys. If you donât want to do it because it will distract you from your core business model. Then just outsource it to SEA or India. Or organize a hackathon then continue to sponsor the winner to maintain it, or make it open source.
Thereâs ways to do it. The community, the users show that they need it. How about not just saying âNOâ and finding a way?
Regards,
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Because they donât have to.
They canât be everything to everyone and someone needs to make decisions about how best to build and market the service, direct development and assign resources.
You may not agree with it but âcâest la vieâ⌠
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Community is full of people with technical background. Most of them are running at least a node. This is what people need that dont understand that and still want cheap storage in a decentralised environment.
If you dont see that or dont even have a long term vision for itâŚ
Project for nodes in the industry is starting now. Kind to compete with filecoin.
Storj now lets developers/company use their storage. But they will also be watching icp and holo⌠like in s3 and such⌠But also here are so much choises⌠awe, google storage, etc. (I see this also going to the âproffesinal nodesâ going)
I think to stand out and also get to an untapped market you may need the personal users who doesnt know so much and are used to just click ânextâ to install something.
This will keep the regular nodes in the future more viableâŚ
But team/community decissionâŚ
Hello World outâŚ
Really this time xd
But thatâs my point.
You think so. Many other people also think so. Hell, even I would like to see a âStorj Dropboxâ.
But Storj doesnât think so (at the moment, they may change their minds).
Also, nothing is stopping âThe Communityâ, as you refer to, from creating what you want. It just wonât happen (currently) on Storj resources.
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You may do it, if you can, we are glad to accept a Community contribution!
We have no plans to go to the consumer market, we doesnât have additional resources to run two companies - for B2B and B2C. If you can start it - it will be great, and we can help to integrate your product with Storj DCS.
See
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