Amium
Productivity
team file collaboration
SHOW HN2016
168points
57comments
#186of 2,264 in 2016
Top 9%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
10 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 11 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 5 for, 6 againstDesign: 2 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Slick, polished UI and good product
From 3 comments
This is really slick. Played with it for about 15 minutes and fell in love. Now to just convince people at work to use it... and pay for it.
thenipper on HNVery good product. Thoroughly impressed
sidcool on HNWhat is your tech stack? The UI is gorgeous.
sidcool on HN
Fills a gap for file collaboration within teams
From 2 comments
I am seriously excited to give this a try today. I've been frustrated by file sharing between my team (we mostly use google docs or dropbox) and esp file collaboration (currently…
Anisa_Mirza on HNDiscussing files "in-line" is a pretty natural way to collaborate. This should have existed a long time ago, and is a natural evolution of workplace collaboration tools. Bravo,…
newy on HN
Objections
Too similar to Slack and Office Online features
From 2 comments
https://www.amium.com/img/homepage/product-shot.png Seems heavily inspired by / very similar to Slack though. A lot of features in common. Slack allows you to post and comment on…
pdenya on HNso how does it compare to just Office.com/WordOnline/OneDrive/SharePoint it has full versioncontrol for all filetypes and provides your coediting in the browser. Why would I use…
basch on HN
Buggy and slow under load at launch
From 3 comments
Huge potential if you nail this. Congrats! Buggy to the point of being hard to even play with as of right now though.
a1sauce on HNI am in academic research. I want to see if this will be good for my work setting. I tried to sign up and got a nginx bad gatewawy error page :(. I'll try again later if I manage…
daemonk on HNI got to the create a team name step and got an error page trying to submit the team name. I guess your servers are getting the hug of death from hackernews. edit Got in after…
daemonk on HN
Favicon resembles InVision's
From 2 comments
You might want to have a re-think about the favicon - it's pretty similar to InVision's (https://invisionapp.com) and, while they're not quite in the same space, they're also not…
bshimmin on HNNot sure if they've updated the favicon in the time since your post, but they do not look remotely similar to me.
thoughtpalette on HN
Requests
On-premises or self-hosted version
From 3 comments
For organizations that require certain documents to remain internal only (no 3rd party server storage), are there any options besides Amium's AWS hosting?
glitcher on HNI'd like to know as well. If it can be self-hosted, I'll jump on-board in a heartbeat.
prophesi on HNOn-Prem is something we're considering on our roadmap (our classic product, AeroFS, is offered on-prem), shoot us an email at feedback@amium.com
yurisagalov on HN
Batch import from Google Drive and Dropbox
From 1 comment
Are there any plans to support batch upload from other services (like Google drive, Dropbox, etc)? It would be nice to be able to migrate lots of folders and files in one click…
azpoliak1 on HN
Questions
Does it work without a shared folder or login
From 2 comments
Do I really need to login to try it out?
lukasm on HNCan you share a file that's anywhere on your computer, or does it have to be in a shared folder? Also, how does Amium handle file renames? This is a tricky one so I wouldn't…
seagreen on HN
How file renames are handled
From 2 comments
Can you share a file that's anywhere on your computer, or does it have to be in a shared folder? Also, how does Amium handle file renames? This is a tricky one so I wouldn't…
seagreen on HNFile needs to be in the Amium shared folder right now :) File renames shouldn't be a problem. We'll also show you a message in the chatroom if the file is renamed :)
yurisagalov on HN
Alternatives named
Quip
From 1 comment
Seems to be aiming to solve a lot of the problems that Quip solves. @yurisagalov, how do they compare?
nathancahill on HN
Slack
From 1 comment
https://www.amium.com/img/homepage/product-shot.png Seems heavily inspired by / very similar to Slack though. A lot of features in common. Slack allows you to post and comment on…
pdenya on HN
Google Docs
From 1 comment
TL;DR Amium vs. Google Docs (and others)..?
56k on HN
Office Online and SharePoint
From 1 comment
so how does it compare to just Office.com/WordOnline/OneDrive/SharePoint it has full versioncontrol for all filetypes and provides your coediting in the browser. Why would I use…
basch on HN
Dropbox Harmony
From 1 comment
This reminds me of Dropbox Harmony for its business users. https://blogs.dropbox.com/business/tag/project-harmony/ Basically, every MS Office folder in your dropbox gets a chat…
gcr on HN