This summer, we made a bold decision to launch on Product Hunt. The problem? We had zero idea how to actually do it.
Well, almost zero. Our CTO @mokosiy was a massive Product Hunt fan, and his enthusiasm was our only compass. He armed us with the right stack: Cursor for code, PostHog for analytics, latest .NET and Avalonia to build the gorgeous app.
The Reality Check By August, the "Launching Soon" label we were banking on had vanished. We were flying blind. That's when the real work began. I didn't just read the guidelines; I followed them to the letter. We had to change the date of the Product Hunt launch five times. We realized that we weren't ready.
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Looks handy. GUI for quick stuff, CLI for scripts. I mostly wipe drives before selling and clone when swapping SSDs. Got burned once by a dead drive. Does it do incremental/diff backups or just full clones? Would make weekly backups a lot easier.
MultiDrive
@alexcloudstar Thank you! 🙌
For now, we do sector-by-sector backup and cloning, which is more reliable for booting up. we don’t support incremental or differential backups yet.
With CLI you can automate your workflow, as well as scheduling tasks. :)
Reindeer
MultiDrive
@joyal_a_johney Thank you so much 🙌
Looks solid. Quick question: does MultiDrive support incremental or differential backups, or is it focused strictly on full-drive cloning? That would make it much more flexible for regular system maintenance.
MultiDrive
@vik_sh Thanks a lot for your question and kind words!
MultiDrive is designed as a sector-by-sector cloning and backup tool. Because of this approach, we currently don’t support incremental or differential backups.
Instead, we focus on full-drive or range-based backups, which are more reliable when the source drive has issues (e.g. bad sectors) and ensure a complete 1:1 copy.
Are you planning to launch on macOS?
MultiDrive
@mattpawluk Sure, MultiDrive is built on Avalonia, a cross-platform UI framework. So we are planning to add Linux/Mac support. 🙌
Kaily
This is great. A free, no-limit cloning and backup tool is rare. Excited to try it!
MultiDrive
@alia_soni1 Thanks a lot for the kind words! 🙌
We wanted to make this kind of tool available and easy to use for everyone - from individual users to businesses. 🫶
Congratulations on the launch 🎉 🎉
MultiDrive
@shubham_pratap Thank you so much! 😊