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TECH Corroboratedⓘ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 Data Storage Solutions

builder posts asking

latest ask seen 12d ago

see the posts →

different people asking

across 1 platform

who →

rivals shipping · web scan

see prices →

cheapest rival / mo

range →

In their words

"I need to find a way to be able to back up just certain conversations before I can get rid of this all" — 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.

external hard drives — "not very good quality" verbatimsign in to trace ↗

onedrive — "no explicit shortcoming stated" verbatimsign in to trace ↗

google storage — (no stated shortcoming) sign in to trace ↗

icloud — "no feasible way to download half a terabyte of messages" verbatimsign in to trace ↗

Pain, in numbers

Quantified only where a builder stated a real figure — no LLM estimates.

474.6 GB of messages“I have 474.6 GB of messages stored in icloud”

Hard requirements

Non-negotiables stated by builders in their own words. Miss one and they will not switch.

1tb storage capacityexternal hard drive on networkautomatic syncable to back up just certain conversationsself-hostedoffline

Competitor pricing

Named rivals & real prices 🔒

Rivals charge $4-$10/mo · names — log in ↗

How we checked

Where we searched

3 sources · GitHub (open-source check) · App Store · SaaS marketplaces

Verification funnel

56 raw matches scanned, then AI-de-duped · see the breakdown below

Last scan

28d 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

What the numbers suggest

11 rivals shipping (fact bar) see prices → market is crowded; differentiate on the unmet requirements above, don't compete on breadth.

3 builder posts asking · 3 different people (fact bar) see posts → demand is independently reported, not one person repeating themselves.

3 demand signals vs 11 shipping rivals → supply already outweighs demand — enter only with an edge.

0 willingness-to-pay quotes yet → no one has named a price — validate pricing before building.

Signal history

4 tracked posts (3 asks · 1 product/news) first post May 2025 0 in the last 30 days

Cumulative tracked posts (asks + products + news) by original post date · 2 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

Top 2 of 3 builder posts asking on record — each insight links back to a real one.

2 reddit

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