And only Windows and MacOSX support, unlike dropbox's:
Windows, MacOSX, Linux, iOS, Android and Blackberry.<p>The reason Dropbox will continue to prevail over these offerings is its ubiquity. iCloud? Mac only? Ha! Useless to me. This? No Linux or Android support? Still useless to me. Not worth another second thinking about.<p>Not to deride Cubby too hard, I'm sure it's another neat thing, but I get tired of people thinking any of these things have a shot at dethroning Dropbox. They put a lot of work into being as cross platform as they are (I presume (since no one else has matched it)) and they deserve their top spot.
Things have come full circle. This sounds a lot like Foldershare.com -- they offered virtually unlimited syncing of folders between machines, but with no cloud backup. They were acquired by MS in 2005. I used Foldershare before I signed up for Dropbox, and in parallel with dropbox, for a while. :)
I wonder how this differs from AeroFS (YC S10).<p>...I also wonder what the heck Yuri and co. have been up to for the past few months. Things have been awful quiet over there.
Serious question: can it do unlimited syncing between your computers if they are rarely on at the same time? If I sync between my laptop, open sometimes during the day, and my desktop, turned on only at night?<p>That would really be a killer app, if a master list of files was stored on Cubby's servers, and it would transfer only things that had changed to the servers, waiting to be sent to the other computer whenever it was turned on...
dropbox, you've been really good to me, but the competition has really got you in the crosshairs....
(and i'm a linux user, which doesn't even work with this [yet?...or google drive], but the competition really has become pretty serious lately).
Slightly off topic: Why does Sugarsync get such little love? It lets me sync/backup arbitrary folders rather than dumping everything into one, so I don't have to remember to put stuff into the One True Folder (which Dropbox, GDrive, Skydrive etc all do), or run things live from there. But I hardly ever hear about it on hacker news. Just wondering if there are known issues with their approach.<p>Edit: I see now Cubby does the same thing. Like.
Excellent. Been looking for a Dropbox-easy way to move large amounts directly between machines (here's hoping it doesn't require passing all of it thru a central server) without having to park it in a size-limited cloud. There was a nifty USB gidget that was close, but required $99 hardware and did route everything (albeit encrypted) thru a host.<p>New iMac coming soon! great time to test Cubby.
I really like Cubby and I think it has a lot of potential. I've been using it for about 3 weeks now. The only problems I have seen is that it notifies you every time something is updated. This includes temp files. This gets rather annoying. I also wish I could start paying for a bigger plan now :P
I tried SugarSync and Syncplicity before settling on Dropbox. I don't trust either of them with my files, but I've been a happily paying customer of Dropbox's for 4 years now.<p>I care way more about not losing my work than I do about $10/month. Cubby may have an uphill battle ahead of it.
i don't use windows live mesh, but my roommate does and from what he's told me it sounds exactly like this. does this do anything other than windows love mesh does?