Etebase
Dev tools
backend sdk for encrypted apps
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
15 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score +0.24.
Idea: 6 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Wide client SDK support
From 1 comment
This looks really good and I can tell a lot of work went into this. Bravo. Although this does not yet have the same sort of real-time push syncing (or subscriptions) the way…
speby on HN
Good fit for privacy-focused apps and EU data transfer concerns
From 1 comment
This might be very good timing for your product - the European Data Protection Board has just out their first guidance after the Schrems II case. It seems to firmly point towards…
g_p on HN
Objections
Missing quotas, migrations and local cache handling
From 2 comments
This is neat, but it seems like it's missing a few things. For one, how do you do migrations? Do I need to include every migration in my application bundle in perpetuity, running…
bastawhiz on HNAfter reading the docs I have a couple more questions: - there's the notion of a local cache but is it synced / de-duped automatically or is it something I still have to do?…
jmnicolas on HN
Hard to sell encryption to customers
From 1 comment
Nice work! I spent about six months pursuing the exact same idea about five years ago with the hope of building a company around it. I got reasonably far with a prototype, but…
joel_dice on HN
Requests
Flutter/Dart package
From 1 comment
Awesome, I'll give it a test drive. Probably will be good for adoption to have a dart / flutter package.
krimpenrik on HN
Range query support via order-preserving indices
From 1 comment
Is there any technical document describing how it works ? For example, order-preserving indices (for range queries) are often an issue in end-to-end databases ; did your design…
slooonz on HN
Questions
How key management and password recovery work
From 1 comment
can you explain key management? is it via the user's password? what happens if passwords are lost or changed?
snissn on HN
How sharing between users works
From 1 comment
interesting how can user share data with each other?
LoSboccacc on HN
Alternatives named
Firebase
From 2 comments
Excited to finally post it on HN. It's something I've been working on for the last year, though in a sense, for much longer! Etebase is an open-source SDK and…
tasn on HNFirebaser here! Just want to say this is (in my personal opinion) pretty cool and even though it's the "competition" you're doing something unique and we'll take the comparison…
habosa on HN
Supabase
From 1 comment
How does this compare to https://supabase.io/ ?
thelazydogsback on HN
Userbase
From 1 comment
This looks great and has a very comprehensive set of libraries. Nice bit of competition for https://userbase.com/ (though their focus is mostly "Serverless" and the Web).
ignoramous on HN
Firecrypt
From 1 comment
Since the pitch keeps referring to Firebase, I thought I might as well mention this here: a while ago I built an encryption layer for the Firebase RTDB at…
piotrkaminski on HN
Firefox Sync
From 1 comment
Just curious, how does that differ from a system like Firefox sync which is also using client side encryption?
fabrice_d on HN