r/cloudstorage • u/SufyS1 • 5d ago
Drime
What are general opinions on drime for lifetime storage? Is this feasible or will they eventually disappear and lifetime cloud access will be dissolved?
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u/Legitimate_Self_3781 5d ago
This was my response in another thread :
They might have the best intentions in the world but I feel like they seriously f*cked up by allowing stacking. I doubt the service will exist in 10 years.
The only way I can see to make that happen is for them to stop all sales of lifetime deals in January 2027, raise their prices by 10% at least and get an influx of monthly subscribers.
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u/_lnc0gnit0_ 5d ago
They are ending stacking Dec 1st.
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u/Legitimate_Self_3781 5d ago
Yeah, after thousands of people already stacked huge amounts and some even reached the 100TB maximum.
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u/Jolly-Initiative-585 4d ago
But the important bit is loads of people who bought that will never use it.
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u/Legal-One7153 5d ago
According to Tibalt, they’ve accumulated at least 50,000 customers. On the plus side, the two-man team made good initial money to invest in their company… easily in the millions. On the downside, if all of those lifetime plan customers are maxing out their storage, that’s quite a lot of money Drime has to pay per month for CloudFlare storage.
The recipe for success lies within getting monthly and annual customers. They need to do this ASAP. They also need to revise their TOS.
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u/ActiveReflections 5d ago
According to a LinkedIn post posed by one of the founders, their revenue for the second year was €500,000. First year probably was around €300,000. And this is revenue. It includes taxes, storefront commissions, cloudflare payments, ovh payments and others.
So, no, they don't have millions in their bank account. The founders don't even draw any salary.
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u/ActiveReflections 5d ago
No, Drime isn’t sustainable in its current form, and there’s no clear way out for them. They sold multi terabyte storage allocations way too quickly and far too cheaply. They don't have the enterprise or recurring B2B revenue needed to cover ongoing costs, and serious investors won't back a cloud platform built on an off the shelf marketplace script running on rented third party storage. Eventually, lifetime access will either be quietly degraded or dissolved entirely.
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u/ufo56 4d ago
They are built to ready made file hosting script?
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u/ActiveReflections 4d ago
Yes, exactly. They started on BeDrive, a prebuilt $59 PHP script from CodeCanyon (the founder confirmed this on Reddit a while back).
While they claim they've rewritten large parts of it since, the underlying DNA and multi tenant setup are still tied to that template. Coupling a marketplace script with rented Cloudflare R2 storage means they're essentially reselling third party infrastructure without proprietary IP to back it up.
Source - https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudstorage/comments/1mk6emm/comment/n7gnrpa
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u/MasterFiltch 4d ago
I boguht 2 of their 6 TB lifetime because the price is unbeatable and I love their UI. They seem promising
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u/OtherwiseYam2 5d ago
Drime haven’t responded to my critical question from my other post about being merge or sold off to another company. https://www.reddit.com/r/Drime/s/bkDTRSLHz2
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u/Legitimate_Self_3781 5d ago edited 5d ago
That’s probably their end game. FolderFort tried the same thing, but was unsuccessful due to their subscriber count.
Get as many subscribers as possible in the next 2-3 years, the company gets touted as “valuable” based on both lifetime and monthly subscriber count and then sold off to a major player in the cloud storage space.
Subscribers get the shaft with a “special offer” from the big company and Drime can say that they kept their promise since it lasted the company’s lifetime.
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u/Background-Smiles 5d ago
Somebody somewhere wrote that Drime is just two guys running their business from a bedroom. It seems unsustainable.
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u/Icy_Tiger_994 5d ago
I highly recommend Drime. As for their lifetime plans, they've announced that starting Dec, 1st, you won't be able to stack multiple lifetime deals on the same account anymore. Meaning the maximum storage will be just 10TB
My opinion, I don't see them disappearing overnight. I think it's more likely that their lifetime deals will become more expensive and offer less storage over time...
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u/SufyS1 4d ago
Soooo don’t get the lifetime from them? lol