Slate

Slate

A file storage network for IPFS & Filecoin

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Slate is a fully open-source file sharing network designed for research and collaboration built by Protocol Labs for Filecoin. Store your data, organize it any way you like, and share it with the world securely. Built with Textile, and IPFS.
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Jim
Muddy
Maker
Hey everyone 👋 I work on Slate at Protocol Labs with @probablyharis, @martinalong, @astrangel00p, @jason_leyser, @gndclouds, @jordattebayo, and @akuokojnr. We are excited to invite you to try our vision for a product built on top of IPFS & Filecoin. Slate is open source software that makes it easy to collect, organize, and share your files anywhere on the web. The team choose to be open source because we want people to have more power over the software they use. We built on top of IPFS, Filecoin, and Textile services to demonstrate the capabilities of new modern web infrastructure. Slate is tightly scoped for the present and more broadly thought out for the future. Our goal is to create a best-in-class experience for uploading, collecting, and sharing media. Additional filetypes will be supported, but our focus is to start with the pieces that apply to everyone and then dial into specific formats. Come join our growing community of contributors from around the world. Open source brand book: https://slate.host/slate/brand Github: https://github.com/filecoin-proj... Let us know if there is anything we can do for you!
Scott Hanford
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Jim
Muddy
Maker
@scott_hanford thank you !! so proud of this this team :)
Rich Smith
Omni!
Jim
Muddy
Maker
Thank you @richcsmith, that means a lot to us.
Jacob Waites
Earth API
@meanjim First thing I tried to do was upload an illustrator file and it's not supported sadly! From a creative designer perspective .ai and .psd support and/or font files would make this not only a great curating tool but an awesome brand-guideline resource. I love the potential of this, just trying to build on it! Going to keep trying to find other ways to work this into my workflow.
Haris Butt
Universe — Website Builder
Maker
@imjacobwaites This is great feedback! Thank you for sharing. We've got .ai and .psd support on the way. It won't be long :)
Tara Lin
Slate
Maker
@imjacobwaites thanks Jacob for all the great feedbacks. And feel free to file an issue for any feature request ☺️ https://github.com/filecoin-proj...
Jim
Muddy
Maker
great idea Jacob! We would love to expand on this with you !! Knowing @probablyharis and @astrangel00p their brains are already in overdrive with ideas :)
Alexander Singh
I think it's worth calling out Slate as an extraordinary achievement built on top of a succession of extraordinary achievements. It has taken many years of work for IPFS, Filecoin and Textile to evolve to the degree that an app like Slate could be built with them. Credit needs to also be given to Cake & the Slate team for bringing these technologies together into a chill user experience.
Jim
Muddy
Maker
@automaticyes Alex this means the world to our team. Especially especially coming from you, I think our hope for a humanist-approach to blockchain may become a reality! I'm grateful for a ton of the support and learnings we took from everyone in the space. I can't wait for what is next for us in the future.
Achal Srinivasan
A beautiful & functional take on file-sharing with IPFS & Filecoin. Congratulations to the team for building a world-class, open-sourced, and first-of-its-kind product within months. The future is here, and it's called Slate ✨
Jim
Muddy
Maker
@achalvs thank you for those kind words Achal! That means the world to our team, especially coming from you!
Jacob Waites
Earth API
@gndclouds We should build a way to structure an IPFS-powered website hosting platform through slate, maybe like small victories (https://www.smallvictori.es/)?
William Felker
Earth API
Maker
@imjacobwaites you read my mind, I already started the wireframes 😉
William Felker
Earth API
Maker
@imjacobwaites which templates would you want?
Jacob Waites
Earth API
@gndclouds Feed is obvious (https://polaroids.smvi.co/) but I think even a static html one would be amazing. I loved museum when it was a thing and keep a blank slate on my account so I can copy it when I need to (https://museum-usuirnci.smvi.co/).
William Felker
Earth API
Maker
@imjacobwaites dope! Those are great examples!
Gabriel Chuan
Jim's a solid maker – I've used his product, reading.supply and loved it to bits. If he helped to launch Slate, you can be damn sure it's good stuff.
Jim
Muddy
Maker
@gabrielchuan thanks Gabriel!
Markus Hafellner
@meanjim I see there is a 50GB storage limit. Why only 50GB and are there any plans on offering more?
Jim
Muddy
Maker
@mhafellner hey thanks for the question! Appreciate you taking the time to reach out. + We are providing as much as we feel comfortable with for free right now. We felt 50GB was both at our technical limit and a value we could communicate really well to the public. + Our technology and our confidence will improve over time so we will offer more as we develop mastery over the Filecoin network. I hope that answers the question! Happy to have more dialog.
Markus Hafellner
@meanjim really appreciate you getting back to me! Do you think it makes sense to offer different storage packages for different prices or are you thinking about other levers for your pricing? Or is the blocker right now purely technical? Trying to gauge if you will offer more storage for money anytime soon, as I would happily pay 😉
Jim
Muddy
Maker
@mhafellner we plan to provide more options in 2-3 months after the Filecoin network launch. We're excited, we believe the economics of the network will allow for extremely competitive prices, but we also need to verify this truth in reality before we provide it as an option to all of our users. I think Slate will focus on uniform pricing at a certain range and then custom pricing based on usage dependent on whatever happens in the future. Thanks for your questions! I look forward to the future :)
Markus Hafellner
@meanjim awesome! Very excited about what's yet to come :)
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