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Adam Duffield
30,494 PointsUsing a userssearch cloud account as app storage?
Hi All,
I'm currently scoping out a mobile app to be built and one of the problems we have come across is the storage of user photos. Cloud storage is pretty cheap these days but if we had 1million photos uploaded a month on the app with no income from the app that would cause a major problem.
A potential solution would be to ask the user on sign up what storage of their own they would like to use, Google drive, Dropbox, Icloud, amazon prime storage e.c.the at least whilst the app starts to generate revenue and then we can migrate or give the option to use our own storage.
Obviously for e.g. a free users Dropbox account could account for hundreds of free photos to save the startup cash of using our own storage. This app is the kind of app where you might post several pictures a day to maybe less than 1 a month depending on your lifestyle. I'm afraid I can't give away much more than that!
What are the general android communities thoughts on this idea?