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I have just finished the prototype for my first product without a
website. It is a backup service with unix philosophy in mind, and curl
as main interface and (soon) machine learning alerting.

# Register
ssh register@ui.baxx.dev
or go to https://ui.baxx.dev (it is the same program run from shellinabox)


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│ Storage 10G                                │
│   Trial 1 Month 0.1EUR                     │
│   Subscription: 5EUR per Month             │
│   Availability: ALPHA                      │
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│ E-mail                                     │
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│ Password                                   │
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│ Confirm Password                           │
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│ Registering means you agree with           │
│ the terms of service!                      │
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│             [Register]  [Login]            │
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│ [Help]  [What/Why/How]  [Terms Of Service] │
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│                   [Quit]                   │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘

after that you will receive email with instructions

# Let me illustrate what I mean by unix friendly:
Example 1 directional rsync
* find all files
* run shasum on them (in parallel)
* send the text to baxx.dev, you get only the shasums that are not
  uploaded
* simply upload the missing files(in parallel):

find path/.. -type f \
  | xargs -P4 -I '{}' \
    shasum -a 256 {} \
  | curl -s --data-binary @- https://baxx.dev/sync/sha256/$BAXX_TOKEN \
  | awk '{ print $2 }' \
  | xargs -P4 -I '{}' \
    curl -s -T {} "https://baxx.dev/io/$BAXX_TOKEN/backup/{}?age=87400&delta=80"


# Why another backup service?

I want to build:
* completely transparent service and pricing
* allow people to host it themselves
* use machine learning to improve the relevancy of the alerts
* easy to use and plug into existing backup scripts

Some of my friends have simple backup scripts such as:

  mysqldump | gzip > backup.sql.gz && \
  scp backup.sql.gz remote_box:backup/backup.$(date +%u).sql.gz

to get daily rotation backups (date +%u is day of the week).

Some of the common things that happen after that:

* remote box gets full disk
* table is renamed
* mysql credentials are changed
* database is split
* ssh keys get changed
* local partition gets full
* etc..

of course usually after the first missing backup you overcompensate
and start sending daily reports to your mail, which end up being
ignored until the next issue pops up, you fix it and add more
monitoring and since you usually need backups ~1 time a year you
forget how annoying this whole thing is. (not to mention when your
monitoring gets marked as spam)

with baxx.dev and one simple change:

  mysqldump | gzip | encrypt -k .pass | \
  curl --data-binary @- "https://baxx.dev/$BAXX_TOKEN/backup.sql.gz?age=87400&delta=80"

* get notified if the file is too small
* get notified if the file is too old


# Transparency

* source
  https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/

* infrastructure and pricing
  https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/master/infra-and-pricing.txt

* todo
  https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/master/TODO.txt


# No website

The way you register is through ssh, just `ssh register@ui.baxx.dev`,
the help is optimized for tty such as `curl https://baxx.dev/help`,
payments are with paypal subscription and IPN, and you get
instructions via email. Now the flow works very well and I love how
simple it is to register and pay, get help and use the service.

I used https://github.com/marcusolsson/tui-go to build the
registration UI and it was pure joy!

The font I got from:
http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=ANSI%20Shadow&t=amazing
and it gave me such a retro feeling, I felt like a kid again.

# Charge during ALPHA

I decided to charge 5EUR (0.1EUR trial) during the alpha, even my 
friends. This way they will also tell me if the service is worth its 
money.

# Next Steps

* get feedback
* improve the api
* improve the help
* work on vowpal wabbit integration
* repeat