In order to increase exposure of Storj services, it would be great to draw more attention in the online media by doing some unique stuff and also publish more articles on news platforms.
At least one article per month talking about Storj, describing some part of the tech, a new milestone, etc. Like the problem with Garbage collector and the solutions you come up with.
play a game with support of Storj; “The First Game played on a distributed storage network”.
Dosen’t realy matter how, the wow is important!
make some Guiness world records like: the biggest file uploaded and downloaded accross the Globe in the shortest ammount of time.
associate Storj with Musk’s products; always a big news hit. No matter what… Starlink, Tesla, etc.
associate Storj with proeminent AI services. Even publish fantasy art created by AI that will point to Storj, or sais STORJ.
There are so many ways you can put Storj in the spotlight. Dosen’t matter that you don’t offer direct storage services for individuals. Drawing attention to everyone, including individuals, will make everyone searching for ways to use Storj, even through third-party apps.
We alyaws saw a big data influx after some news or some presentation on IT conferences.
Don’t expect people search for Storj! Put Storj right in their face!
Yeah that sounds wrong. Also Miss Rosie still shows being CMO at Storj on her Linkedin page.
In order to protect their privacy, Storj doesn’t disclose who has left unless they are directly related to SNOs like the forum staff. Stephen Benten left too.
Any time I search for something similar to “cheap S3 storage” I see mentions of Storj in many of the results. So for their target customers (those wanting the core S3 features for a lower-than-Amazon price) I think the word is already out there.
Don’t need to market to the Crypto Twitter folks. Don’t need to market to SNOs. Don’t need to market to token speculators. Just people paying for S3 today who want to save a buck.
If you need to integrate with other software: I wouldn’t try to have it manipulate a GUI. The best way would be to use the S3 API. As a bonus you’d then be able to try any other S3 provider.
If S3 doesn’t deliver the speed you need, you could also use the native libuplink library: but it would only work with Storj.
People want cheap and then complain about reliability.
I had issues with B2. I had A LOT of issues with Wasabi. I believe people have issues with hetzner, because anyone can slap S3 on top of rounded service (because all corners possible and impossible were cut, it’s VERY smooth) but it’s very had to make it work reliably.
FWIW in my limited experience using storj as a customer I had no issues. none. zero. I also had no issues with AWS. It’s anecdotal, but for me, anecdotal customer, it’s enough for me. And yet, I don’t think I’m unique.
I don’t know how can Storj market this. “We dont’ suck unlike our competitors”.. I don’t’ know.
hah, to be honest, at first, they need to market at ALL!
like anything, really.
beside that:
Awareness of the name among developer community, building fantastic relation with them, like a raving fans, that should be practiced.
i really like ideas from 1st post here, but
if You too lazy, then just set a really nice bot for socials and post funny posts whenever someone has hosting questions, or the topic is Cloud,
(((the presence)))
to be present, not hidden under rock like Storj is now
and such presence that encourages!
Storj is your companion!
whatever You do in digital world!
we support You!
You already know that consumers aren’t our target audience. You mentioned primarily consumers whose needs don’t exceed the upcoming minimum payment. Perhaps with the exception of one person with 44 TB, but that’s still very small, and we’ll definitely have big problems with them, since they’ve already chosen the worst possible S3 provider, which is also the cheapest.
Using twitter is the limit of my acceptability.
