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Ask HN: Is anyone using IPFS for a production level product?
19 points by IgorPartola on July 20, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
A few years ago IPFS seemed to the up and coming peer-to-peer content addressed technology. It seemed like it solved a number of problems of the current web architecture and opened new frontiers of what could be done. However while I see the project is still active developed I was wondering if anyone here has actually done anything serious with it and if so, how did it work out for you?


> It seemed like it solved a number of problems of the current web architecture and opened new frontiers of what could be done.

What problems have they solved in your opinion?


Decentralization and content-based addressing, mainly.


Those weren't problems that needed solving. They are just the features that the software implements.

What I mean is that if it did solve a problem, it'd be used more widely. It offers some features that aren't really all that useful to the majority of people. So it's solving a problem most people simply don't have.


We already had those.


The only one I know of if Library Genesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis


Previously, my product was going to use ipfs for a purpose similar to cdn. But its use threshold is high, and users must install a client or browser plug-in to use it.




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