The harm is that $5 / month for 50GB is the wrong model.
If this is valuable, they think 10GB is enough to test the fundamental premise and see people hit the edges of what they'd want to pay for.
There might be a segment of the market for whom this is worth vastly more than $5 / month. There might be a segment who wants to pay that little, but it's not about storage. They may not learn these things by priming people on a per-GB storage model.
I agree. My point wasn't necessarily that they should charge for storage but more so allow the community to support them financially as they're working on their product(s). The post saying, "we're not collecting money, we're not trying to make money right now" just seems kind of strange. Keep the free model. Let people play around, but I still don't see harm in allowing someone from the community to pay keybase for working hard on a hard problem. I'd be more than happy to pay them right now just because I love the work they do and want them to succeed.
They should charge to get an enterprise version with certain guarantees. Without payment and a contractual guarantee, it can only ever be for personal use.
You say this, but we use it as a convienient way to onboard new engineers. There is a huge amount of key material to exchange to bring one of our developers online and its a lot easier to move it without thumb drives or passwords shouted across the room (or the famous email-tar.gpg and slack the password).
It's not reliable for storing customer data, no. But it's quite useful for a lot of quick engineering work.
Neither seems terribly relevant, to be honest. In terms of namespacing, Corporations don't have their own space. What you do is have individuals send files amongst each other.
And, are you suggesting that a corporate process has to rely on technology that is always available? I'm fairly sure that they don't. If corporate Wi-Fi and Microsoft Office are any indication, anyways.
Please excuse any punctuation or capitalization today. I am training a new interface to Hacker News and the voice recognition sometimes produces slightly odd text.
If this is valuable, they think 10GB is enough to test the fundamental premise and see people hit the edges of what they'd want to pay for.
There might be a segment of the market for whom this is worth vastly more than $5 / month. There might be a segment who wants to pay that little, but it's not about storage. They may not learn these things by priming people on a per-GB storage model.