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by acejam 1576 days ago
Hi there, Filebase CEO here - thank you for the questions and very valuable feedback!

1. We've been building Filebase since 2018 and have been live in production since 2019. We are relatively well known in the Sia and decentralized storage ecosystem. IDC, 451, and GigaOm have all done reports on us.

2. We are targeting web2 and web3 developers. You can safely ignore all of the NFT and Web3 mentions. Most customers today use us as a S3 compatible storage service.

3. Storing data directly on Sia absolutely costs more than $2 per TB. Their website is unfortunately outdated and that same number has been listed for years. Sia is a decentralized storage marketplace - hosts set their own pricing and compete against each other. Filebase goes to this marketplace and acquires storage capacity.

4. The Sia network is one of the leading decentralized storage networks today and has been live since 2015. I can't speak for the entire network since it's decentralized, but for Filebase specifically, we have over 10,000 users and are about to approach 1 billion files processed.

5. A Filebase website re-design is coming soon and will include your suggested ideas of metrics and logos.