AeroFS a p2p kind-of Dropbox.

It’s another YC startup. They pop up like mushroom these days.

This one though, I’m failing to see the business plan. What I mean is Dropbox is worth $$ because the damn thing hosts our data, and we use their bandwidth. We need it to stay up.

This startup doesn’t host anything, it’s p2p. I don’t think we even need their bandwidth, perhaps we do for setting up devices (which some people will classify as an invasion of privacy).

Anyways, it could be open source software (in fact, p2p technologies underneath are most likely MIT or apache licensed).

What are they going to do? Stop everyone by saying “now you have to pay!” ? It’s not like we would use their bandwidth or their storage… And if they did do it, most people would find a free or open source alternative. Once you let the bird out of the cage, there is no turning back.

Also, it doesn’t appear to be doing versioning. Something Dropbox does fairly well.

At this stage, it’s just pretty pixels - wrapped up around angel investments - thrown at buzzy keywords.

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