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ValidatedⓘEvidence tiers: Early signal = 1 uncorroborated request — treat as radar, not a validated opportunity · Corroborated = 2-3 requests · Validated = 4+ requests from 2+ different people. Every count appears exactly once, in the fact bar below — each traces to a real source post.
Private Cloud Storage Alternative
In their words
"I've become unhappy with Google and their attitude and actions" — a builder, verbatim · sign in free to trace the source ↗
What they tried & dropped
Extracted word-for-word from the evidence posts below — every item is quoted verbatim from a real builder.
Google Drive
— "unhappy with the way its associated 'Backup and Sync' tool works"
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gdrive with rclone mounts and freefilesync
— (no stated shortcoming)
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Hard requirements
Non-negotiables stated by builders in their own words. Miss one and they will not switch.
Cross-platformStable and fastMultiple locationsGood corporate behaviourWorks with more than a million filesuser-friendly
Competitor pricing
Named rivals & real prices 🔒
Rivals charge $2/mo · names — log in ↗
Open-source check · GitHub · 2026-06-11
🔵 5 open-source attempts, none above ⭐6 — no winner yet · verify ↗
Competitor adoption · official registry · 2026-08-17
PyPI: 29,964 PyPI downloads/week ↗
How we checked
Where we searched
3 sources · GitHub (open-source check) · App Store · SaaS marketplaces
Verification funnel
38 raw matches scanned, then AI-de-duped · see the breakdown below
Last scan
27d ago · auto-refreshed every 30 days
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Every source post · named rivals with real prices · what builders tried & dropped · quantified pain — all traceable to the original posts
Sign up free →Signal history
16 tracked posts (6 asks · 10 product/news)
first post Jul 2020
▲ 4 in the last 30 days
Cumulative tracked posts (asks + products + news) by original post date · 4 earlier posts before this 12-month window carried into the baseline · GapMine tracked communities — not search volume · every step traces to a real post in the evidence record (sign in to read them).
Evidence pool
9 source posts on record — each insight links back to a real one.
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