Storj - THERE IS NO CLOUD: it’s just someone else’s computer

[willywoo]

I’ve been following Storj and SAFE relatively lightly for a couple of years.

Around the time of Storj’s crowdsale I remember a LTB podcast interview of one of the Storj founders saying that SAFE and Storj aren’t competitors, that they could build Storj on top of SAFE. And when I saw their marketing website, it led me to think about it as analogous to:

Storj = Dropbox
SAFE = Amazon Cloud Services

But in June, @super3 posted here:

Storj Beta Update

One of the Maidsafe community members, dallyshalla, asked me to give a quick update on what we are doing. I’m a little hesitant, but I’ll give it a try. Team just came back from Berlin, where we attended Decentralized and Encrypted, with IPFS and Edward Snowden. Got to talk to Edward for a little bit which was super cool. Seems like many projects are jumping on the bandwagon of a decentralized and private web, which is good for everyone. Maidsafe gets more hipster points than Storj though, you …

… saying…

Our core focus is to provide easy to use tools for developers to build apps on top of a decentralized storage network. We provide a service we call Bridge (that the service you sign up on the website), which helps simply that process

So SAFE and Storj look to be competing for the same users and my analogy ain’t so great.

Is there a better analogy to think of the two networks?