When will the market be ripe for people/average joe to buy or rent a block data service à la s3/minio so they can plug their app (calendar, photo sharing, blog, messages, etc.) to it instead of being forced to pay for services with their privacy ? They'd just pay for cloud storage that can be used by any apps using buckets/volumes as external storage instead of paying for dropbox like dumb storage.

If I had money I would do a foundation thing to kickstart something like that.

Is that a dumb idea ?

edit: maybe the latency between the app and the block service would be too high to be reliable/tolerable.

edit2: there used to be a lot of applications that relied on dropbox to store things but I have a feeling SSG captured the dev mindshare (or maybe Dropbox restricted the API).

edit3: I just corrected `id` to `idea`, my brain does that when I am tired :D