{"id":14966,"date":"2013-07-11T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=14966"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T07:58:09","slug":"forgetboxs-plug-kickstarter-campaign-raises-70k-in-12-hours-to-turn-any-hard-drive-into-your-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/07\/forgetboxs-plug-kickstarter-campaign-raises-70k-in-12-hours-to-turn-any-hard-drive-into-your-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgetbox’s Plug Kickstarter campaign raises $70K in 12 Hours to turn any hard drive into your cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Plug,<\/p>\n

Yesterday around 8PM, I was with two of the Forgetbox cofounders Gawen Arab and Severine Marcombes in the basement of a bar, where they had invited friends to announce the launch of their Kickstarter campaign for their flagship product Plug<\/a>. In French tradition, we were a little late in kicking off the presentation, which consisted of the two founders speaking about the startup’s journey so far, and then, of course, watching the plug video.<\/p>\n

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The video, as you’ll see, introduces Plug, small piece of hardware that connects to your home internet with ethernet, and then to any USB\/external hard drive\/storage space via USB. In short, Plug turns any piece of storage space you have into a personal cloud, which can be synced across all devices. In short, it’s a game-changer.<\/p>\n

Watching their video above, everything looks ‘nice’ – the dropbox feel is a bit too overwhelming – you can sync files between devices, share with friends easily, recover old versions of documents, etc. Until they get to the subject of price.<\/p>\n

With Plug, instead of having all your files in “the cloud” (words like “SaaS” come to mind), you have them in\u00a0your<\/em> cloud. If you want more space on\u00a0your<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>cloud, you buy more space. For the cost of that space. And that’s it. So while it may seem annoying to buy 1TB for $100 or so, when compared to how much that would cost you on Dropbox in the first year along, it’s a no-brainer. Personally, I already have a TB at home and will\u00a0definitely<\/em> be forking over the $69 to turn it into storage that I can access on my iPhone, laptop & tablet.<\/p>\n

There are huge opportunities for these guys, as the technology world shifts back to the pre-cloud area of having your own servers at our home. Storage cost has dropped dramatically, while security risks and concerns about privacy have gone through the roof.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing this article, the KickStarter Campaign<\/a>\u00a0had already raised the $69,000 it was looking for – in just 12 hours. The campaign has 59 days to go, and I’m sure we will be talking about Plug for a while as one of the top successes on KickStarter, especially for a company that is based in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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