# Storj 7 Hacker News commenters recommended Storj and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Decentralized S3-compatible storage that some people trust for reliability, and others use to earn income from spare disk space. Critics mainly point to management problems and operational overhead. ## Why people recommend it - Simple, configurable architecture (2 comments): "Storj supports arbitrary configured backends each with different erasure coding, node placement, etc." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333028)) "Storj is a much more straightforward implementation." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514174)) ## What people warn about - Management and business viability concerns (2 comments): "mostly IMO because of incompetent management" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597490)) "Storj is in bankruptcy for fiscal reasons due to its impossible logistics" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600015)) - Operational complexity and overhead (2 comments): "the economic incentives rarely outweigh the risks and operational overhead for the average homeowner" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596395)) "Insanely convoluted solution that only someone with crypto-brain would ever come up with." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49598924)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Amazon S3](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-s3.md): 170 recommend - [Cloudflare R2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-r2.md): 85 recommend - [Backblaze B2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/backblaze-b2.md): 50 recommend - [AWS S3](https://hackerapproved.com/p/aws-s3.md): 17 recommend - [Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-s3-glacier-deep-archive.md): 16 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.storj.io/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Storj", https://hackerapproved.com/p/storj/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).