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by tossimba 2816 days ago
I previously considered the idea of creating a cloud storage solution where customers are only billed for what they use. This was spurred by looking at dropbox's $10/mo plan for 1TB of storage. But I decided against it.

Storage is already free for the average user. 15GB with Google is enough. If you want more, the option is there and not that expensive. $2/mo for 100GB. I see no reason why a consumer would switch to my lesser-known service to save $1/mo. $1 is nothing. So my market would be users that store a lot of data. In that case, $10/mo for 1TB doesn't seem all that bad. Anymore than 1TB, customers probably have a bit of technical knowledge and may aswell store it themselves.

This market is already extremely saturated. Every single big tech name has a part of it.

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Is https://cloudbuddy.cloud something like what you considered creating?
yeah but not extremely over priced