What can we do for Storj to get more customers

[jammerdan]

@littleskunk

There is a missperception of what storj actually offers. We are not a cheap backup storage. We are a premium service for customers that can go nowhere else except AWS for performance reasons.

I’d rather say Storj is also

a premium service for customers that can go nowhere else except AWS for performance reasons.

I am not sure if there are enough customers if the focus is only on those with a performance issue on AWS.

@littleskunk

Remember that storj select customer? They tried other services but non was able to handle the load. We can. That is our selling point. And its not just that one customer. We have a few of them.

Great. If that’s the case they should be invited to buy Storj.
For Vivint it would even close a circle:

@jtolio

Along with the acquisition of CrowdStorage, Vivint and CrowdStorage are going separate ways. Vivint’s storage locations (or storage needs) are not (at least as part of this deal?) becoming part of the Storj network at this time.

Back to the roots that would mean.

Space Monkey (company)

In September 2014, Vivint, a home automation company, acquired Space Monkey for an undisclosed amount.

History repeating?

@littleskunk

So if we want to watch out for new customers we should go for customers that can’t use any other service other than AWS. For these customer we have a high performance alternative.

We have made suggestions in the past:

Solutions by industry

When you are at it maybe you should reach out to the SKAO Observatory as well: When the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science’s biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory will produce around 600 petabytes of data each year. That amount would take 200 years to download using an at-home internet connection of 100 megabytes per second. Handling a deluge of big data:

Solutions by industry

A sugestion for the marketing department: Vera Rubin Observatory has the largest camera in the world and uses it to map the sky. It generates 20TB of data per 24h, with an estimate of 60PB in it’s 10 years life span. Maybe they need some storage space? https://rubinobservatory.org/

Satellite as a service

Therefore, Blackburn is always on the lookout for another method to move petabyte-scale data. I am sure they are aware of cloud offerings like Wasabi and others which are cheaper than AWS. So probably that’s still too expensive and not a good fit for their use cases. It was even said that the final data lies on Googles cloud. But what if the offer would be that they could build their own data center by running their own satellite? I am sure there are hundreds of thousands of astronomy ent…

@snorkel

Keeping this “we are the cheapest” strategy on pretty much brought us were Storj is here today: Chapter 11.

Initially Storj was high priced. Then that was changed and low price was chased. I am not against that. But also if there is a great product with a USP nobody else can match, then the price can be higher for that. The goal would be differentiate pricing.