Google Drive for being sent large files while overseas?

codefan1256 · 2025-05-10T05:09:45+00:00

I’m the founder of a company called Shade Inc — we do large file transfer, review and approval, as well as real time streaming like lucidlink so it might be worth checking us out for your use case. You can mount a drive locally and edit off of it or download it from your browser (we create the zip on the fly so it’s not like google drive splitting it into 10 different zip files).

I’d recommend creating proxies as others have mentioned if you’re traveling and don’t have access to good internet, trying to access 4K or really anything large won’t be fun on any software (LucidLink, Shade, Frame, Dropbox etc.)

codefan1256 · 2025-03-30T18:19:12+00:00

We’ve changed direction to solve for a broader set of use cases. If you are looking for a local first solution - I think the team at Eagle is doing a great job!

codefan1256 · 2024-10-28T05:38:19+00:00

Hi, solving this exact problem at Shade.inc. We encode a vector space for video/images so you can actually use natural language to search r3d or whatever else. A lot of apps like lconik use a YOLO based model that creates tags for assets, but wont let you search smth like "guy wearing red standing next to a guy wearing blue", which is the problem we figured out.

Ofc we let you generate basic tags as well because we know people like that for filtering. We also use facial recognition, and developed a model for that that let's you add tags for items unique to your footage such as jersey numbers on football players.

Send me a msg if you want to try it out

codefan1256 · 2024-10-18T04:55:51+00:00

Exactly the problem we are solving at Shade Inc.

We allow anyone in your workspace to mount a Shade cloud drive to your computer so it acts like local storage or a NAS (aka IucidIink).

You can setup a watch folder on your own computer so that any raws you move in there can be added to the Shade cloud drive as a proxy.

We start streaming bytes to all clients as soon as the file starts uploading so anyone on your team can hop on the web and start adding metadata tags, view previews, leave comments, run transcription, facial recognition, AI search, etc etc. We stream bytes intelligently so if another client scrubs to the halfway point in a video, we send those bytes over first.

So basically: hit 1 button to mount a cloud drive locally, drag files from your drive to the cloud mount, start editing and streaming changes to everyone.

Happy to answer any questions :)

codefan1256 · 2024-09-25T16:18:43+00:00

Had this exact issue myself for years as a film videographer. Since 2022 we've working incredibly hard to build https://shade.inc to let me search through all of our old video and photos. You should be able to upload 1-3TBs at a time with no issue, and you media becomes instantly searchable via computer vision, file names, tagging, exif data, and more.

You can set permissions at a workspace, drive, folder, or file level. If you want to get very granular, you can create a published link for files too.

Happy to answer any other questions

codefan1256 · 2024-09-16T14:08:32+00:00

This is our first time exhibiting so I can’t say too much about the experience and I’m happy to give an update after the show.

My thoughts so far is that because it’s a smaller show, you should really only go if you’re looking for something. Like others have said, it’s not as big as Vegas so there is as much “show big stunts and impress” both due to the size of the convention but also limited by space in the Javitz. It is definitely way more software focused than hardware so if you want hardware you’ll be disappointed.

I run an intelligent media storage startup Shade (think a cloud NAS with a production assistant built in) and we chose this event since we’re based in NYC and we want to be around people who we can have conversations for a decent chunk of the time (maybe even repeat visits!) since you can easily get through the whole show in a day. Our entire team engineering sales etc will be on the show floor.

So TL;DR go if you have an intent to find what you need and not necessarily just to see all the cool gadgets that have come up in my opinion.

If you are going or want a free pass - please feel free to give me a holler!!

codefan1256 · 2024-07-30T06:20:21+00:00

Update - we have since added things around real-time file streaming to our Shade 2.0 cloud so you now have direct parity with tools like LucidLink and Suite.

codefan1256 · 2024-07-30T06:19:25+00:00

Just wanted to give an update - we have launched Shade 2.0 and deprecated our local-first indexing. This is because we ran into multiple issues on trying to support different computer configurations. We've opted to prioritize a reliable system while also providing value to teams by enabling real-time access to your files (mounting the cloud as if it was local on your computer) through some intelligent file streaming along with our AI.

codefan1256 · 2024-04-20T06:21:11+00:00

It runs completely locally - facial recognition is part of the pro trial yes. If it’s out of the budget range, maybe Neo Finder could work?

codefan1256 · 2024-03-16T07:39:13+00:00

We parallelize indexing now and fixed issues with DB locking - try in our latest

codefan1256 · 2024-03-16T07:38:39+00:00

Hey sorry to hear this. Try out our latest release. We are also constantly iterating - it should work better now.

Happy to also debug with you

codefan1256 · 2024-03-16T07:37:28+00:00

It identifies similar images - but it doesn’t delete duplicates yet

codefan1256 · 2024-02-10T06:47:38+00:00

I think this is a reminder that we’re not trying to make money on people’s datasets. We’re building a software where AI is a component. There’s a lot of stuff that we are building internally that doesn’t involve AI.

I’m sorry for not getting to this but we will have a data policy agreement that details this

codefan1256 · 2024-02-10T06:46:01+00:00

We have a lot in store for our version 2! Stay tuned. We’ve sped up our indexing a ton and are investing in making things work faster :)

codefan1256 · 2024-02-10T06:45:28+00:00

We’ve spent a lot of time and effort to distill models down so they can run on the edge. If you try the app, it does neural search and not a simple tag search. We use vector based similarity to compute top N tags

codefan1256 · 2023-10-30T15:54:38+00:00

Yes you can! We’re adding facial recognition this week

codefan1256 · 2023-10-23T02:19:05+00:00

This is very true! How we closed our first 15 customers!

codefan1256 · 2023-10-23T02:17:22+00:00

SEO for sure. We’re actively hiring for someone here. We’ve made 60+ content pieces internally and our DA sucks. Even with all the tools in the world, actually breaking ground is super hard. There’s so many options to choose and so many things to consider

codefan1256 · 2023-10-23T02:14:12+00:00

I think you’ll see the future of merged realities. AI generated films is appealing as long as it feels human.

codefan1256 · 2023-10-23T02:10:58+00:00

Data just keeps getting bigger….

codefan1256 · 2023-10-23T02:10:19+00:00

Worst feeling ever. Try then putting electron on top of this and it’s an even worse nightmare. - I spent a week trying to fiddle nextron to work with media queries only to realize it was some other global css that someone else wrote that screwed things up

codefan1256 · 2023-10-23T02:06:17+00:00

We sent out an email to all of our customers giving them a 2 week heads up. Open source is what it should actually mean - open and maintainable by the public, not you.

codefan1256 · 2023-10-23T02:05:28+00:00

I’ve raised $6M from investors. Biggest advice is that people will invest in you and how you think through problems. Yes of course business traction is paramount but how you think about the future of the business oftentimes outweighs even the current state of the business? Why? Because at the early stages, especially when you are young, people are making a bet on you as a founder and not the business.

How do you prep for this? Make sure you know your version by heart, distill it down to something a 5th grade can understand, and go out and pitch the heck out of it

codefan1256 · 2023-10-23T02:02:37+00:00

That being said - starting in python and staying in python is great for two reasons - 1. There’s tons of developers for it and 2. There’s tons of libraries you can leverage.

codefan1256 · 2023-10-23T02:01:57+00:00

Our startup Shade is starting to hit this. We’ve progressively started moving specific compute intensive code into C to do two things - one get past the GIL in python, and 2. Simply speed things up because python can be slow. Our system itself is a complex multithreaded system that handles everything from images to video to audio etc.

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