# When will Tardigrade going mainstream? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [January 27, 2021, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/when-will-tardigrade-going-mainstream/11454 "2021-01-27T19:43:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Stob](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/stob/32/1137_2.png) [@Stob](https://forum.storj.io/u/Stob)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/when-will-tardigrade-going-mainstream/11454/3 "2021-01-28T09:58:18Z")
From the sounds of your question you would like Tardigrade to advertise to individual customers? If that’s the case this would be poor use of resources as single customers are ‘small’ in relative terms for a service like Tardigrade. The current approach is to create partnerships and integration for existing companies with many customers, who would have a ‘large’ storage requirement. > [@Free the Cloud With Hypernet Galileo and Tardigrade](https://forum.storj.io/t/free-the-cloud-with-hypernet-galileo-and-tardigrade/11421/): > > [@New partner in the Tardigrade Ecosystem: Filebase!](https://forum.storj.io/t/new-partner-in-the-tardigrade-ecosystem-filebase/10828/4): > > If nothing else, 5GB free is nice for something decentralized and brain dead easy to setup and take advantage of. > [@Private Multiregion File Transfer with Tardigrade and FileZilla](https://forum.storj.io/t/private-multiregion-file-transfer-with-tardigrade-and-filezilla/8781/4): > > Thank you, Of course Ive actually been waiting for this since V2. Also Tardigrade is still in active development with new customer requested features being added, e.g. reducing the need for customers to run their own gateway: > [@Gateway MT beta: looking for testers](https://forum.storj.io/t/gateway-mt-beta-looking-for-testers/11324): > > As you might have seen in a couple of our product/development updates, we’ve been working on a new S3 gateway. The biggest difference between this new gateway and our existing gateway is that the new gateway is multi-tenant, and Storj Labs will be hosting a few of them. This means you’ll be able to integrate with the Storj network via HTTP, and you won’t have to run anything extra on your end. One thing to keep in mind is that the Gateway MT is still in BETA, so DO NOT run anything mission-crit… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.storj.io/t/when-will-tardigrade-going-mainstream/11454)._