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13 pointsrwwwwt10 comments

How can a service like this exist when pretty much every company API says this in their ToS:

> Don't sell, transfer or sublicense our code, APIs, or tools to anyone.

Sec 4 #10 of https://developers.facebook.com/policy/#properuse

We don't sell any code nor do we sublicense it. It is common that for instance the open source community creates alternative SDKs. And we help them to get users on their API. So it is definitely a win win situation.

Flagged since URL covertly redirects to cloudrail.com. Doing a HN search shows that domain has been submitted frequently. (I've seen deleted-then-resubmitted posts from this domain as well)

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Cloudrail&sort=byPopularity&pr...

That is sometimes unfortunately the only way. Getting the first votes is just luck and the right timing, or you fake them. I prefere posting it several times. Sorry for that, but it seems like people like what I posted.

That might be the case. But it's also more suspect when your username was created a mere 2 minutes before you posted this. You should be using the same, preferably established, HN username.

Usually we use this account. I just decided to create one for myself as well. Might be a mistake and sorry for that. Anyway I don't like if someone flags a post which people really like. Especially when it is about a real tool for developers by a startup.

Hope this post is ok now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10603625

It appears that you are abusing HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Cloudrail&sort=byPopularity&pr...

What are your SLAs? Do you have any data on the latency overhead this service introduces? Historical uptimes and postmortems on outages? These are all factors I'd use to evaluate the engineering maturity of a service like this.

The good thing about CloudRail is that no data ever passes one of our servers. The intelligence sits in the SDK which is included in your app. Data then flows directly between your app and for instance Dropbox. So even if we are down your integrations will work.

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