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During an upgrade, I discovered that the console had been removed without any prior notice. MinIO really pissed me off. Over a month ago, I started looking for a MinIO alternative and found RustFS. I've been testing RustFS for over a month now, and the product continues to improve, with the community fixing bugs very quickly. I hope YC will invest in this company.

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nunez|4 months ago

At the same time, I'm concerned that a YC investment means more of the same, eventually: open-source until it's no longer fiscally prudent.

baq|4 months ago

free software until mainstream acceptance. naive MBAs call it leaving money on the table, Microsoft calls it a monopoly-preserving strategy. no VC has the balls to go for the jugular anymore.

Kevinmetaba|4 months ago

Is open source and making money in conflict? If they do a good job, I am willing to pay.

Nux|4 months ago

Nothing like VC or IPO to ruin a perfectly good product...

naikrovek|4 months ago

it used to be that people started businesses so that they could help others by providing a product or a service to them.

late stage capitalism arrives when people create businesses solely to get rich, and when other companies are created solely to get rich by helping those people create their companies so that they can get rich. that's what ycombinator is.

most of capitalism used to be symbiotic. engaging in transactions with businesses benefited both the business and the consumer.

now we live in a world where most or all of the benefit goes to the business and none or almost none to the consumer.

williamstein|4 months ago

There is a nice table here

https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs?tab=readme-ov-file#rustfs-v...

comparing RustFS to MinIO, including a claim about the MinIo support price.

smartbit|4 months ago

Here an S3 compatibility table https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/reference-manua... comparing

  - GarageFS 
  - OpenStack Swift
  - CEPH Object Gateway Rados
  - Riak CS
  - OpenIO

CamouflagedKiwi|4 months ago

The benchmark against MinIO is nice, but I don't care much for the table vs. "Other object storage" which seems to try to aggregate all the worst points of all the others with no citation (e.g. why should I believe RustFS has no intellectual property risk but others do? What's different about them to back that up?).

egorfine|4 months ago

This comparison reads like it was written by an adolescent. The first row immediately reminded me of the classic meme[1]

[1] https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/460629937/our-blessed-homel...

maxloh|4 months ago

Eh... however, I must add a strong note of caution. On their README, it states:

> RustFS is under rapid development. Do NOT use in production environments!

Also note that it seems to be a Chinese company (北京恒河沙科技有限公司), so security issues might arise.