slate VS skynet-webportal

One product I helped develop on top of Filecoin is https://slate.host, people would use it to upload photos, and then do archival on Filecoin automatically. It was really good for photos that you wanted to be on the public that you wanted to ensure backups.

Slate is even better than Dropbox.

You can try https://slate.host or https://files.chainsafe.io, What did you look at that was complicated?

Check out https://web3.storage and https://estuary.tech if you're a developer, or https://slate.host if you just want to search a very small snapshot of all the data, or https://file.app, an index I'm working on to get a better sense of price, storage capacity, and participants in the ecosystem.

Slate.host also generates an IPFS CID for uploaded files. What's the benefit of using Pinata, a "pinning" service, over Slate, a "hosting" service?

Slate: This is the world's first open-sourced decentralized storage system, which distributes your files across the Inter-Plantetary Filesystem (IPFS) rather than in a centralized network of storage clusters. The parent company, Protocol Labs, has a lot of exciting features planned w.r.t. secure storage, actually.

slate.host: The design is right. Problem 1: I made an account month ago, and now I can't login anymore because my password seems to be wrong, and there is no password-reset-option.. Problem 2: The version-state does not seem to be public-usable-ready. I think I even read about a warning of the Dev-Team to not save importend stuff on it.

If you haven't slate.host. Just dug that out of the docs and its kinda neet.

Currently the most promising product built on top of Filecoin is Slate https://slate.host/. I have tried that product but it’s not realistic that I would use it as my daily data storage.

To use it you can go to slate.host, space.storage, or files.chainsafe.io. Slate.host even gives you 4GB for free, and will start giving 50GB for free soon.

While you're here have a look at sia Skynet the beginning of internet 3.0, people want easy to use storage this is it. It's also has a very simple tonuse SDK for devs to build upon.

You can use Sia from browser nowadays. They built a decentralized CDN network called Skynet on it. https://siasky.net

No longer worrying about servers and uptime for a simple react app is a big accomplishment already. Drag and drop your /build directory at https://siasky.net and you're live and running (for as long as the app has active users I believe, I'm still learning a lot too).

Use Skynet

It will totally be capable if Filecoin can start to get their tech in order. However, Skynet is not only capable of this but encouraging devs to get things up and running on the network.

In the end both of these concerns you have in regards to the mass adoption are negligible since the introduction of Skynet. With Skynet the only people that will ever have to be running any Sia software will be just the hosts. Skynet is kind of like a intermediary between the end user and the Sia network. The end user (you) will never need to buy Siacoin or install any software in order to use the Sia network. What happens is you essentially pay for the storage using your normal means of payments through the use of websites and apps like Skyspace, MARStorage, Filebase or Siasky. They in turn handle all the technical details of getting your data on to the Sia network. So once enough developers jump on board and enough websites and apps have been built on Skynet, the average end user might not even know what Skynet is even though they are using it every single day because it is the new internet. All they will know is there is less adds and things seem to work a bit differently.

I'm making this a separate reply so you are sure to get it. But make sure you also go sign up an account at https://siasky.net as well. It keeps track of ALL your data that you upload and download to and from Skynet through the Siasky portal.

SkyNet runs on blockchain

Here is the SkyNet WebPortal source code if anybody is interested.