Al Spiers + Tom Davy launch Stashboard – cloud storage, organisation + collaboration for creatives
Sydney-based art director Al Spiers (right) and designer Thom Davy (left) have launched a productivity tool with a near-impossible objective: making storage and organisation cool.
Stashboard aims to revolutionise the category, providing a single location for every creative person to store, sort, share and reference their creative assets, collaborate on projects and generally help in organising their creative lives. It’s unique in that it has been “built by creatives for creatives.”
Says Spiers: “Between us we’ve worked in the industry for over 35 years of which we’ve spent a large chunk lost in the chaos of creativity. We’ve spent too much time trying to relocate files and inspiration – generally being disorganised. We felt that if we had all our creative stuff in one place we could spend less time chasing our tails and more time doing
what we do best – being creative. That’s why we developed Stashboard”
Says Davy: “We’ve spent almost two years crafting the system in order for it to make perfect sense to people like us. We wanted to build the ultimate left-brain stash for all that right-brain stuff, and in the process help produce better creative minds.”
With its clean, colourful
design and intuitive user interface, Stashboard is unlike any other cloud storage on the market. With a mobile and tablet version on the way, the desktop site caters to designers, art directors, artists, photographers, illustrators, fashion designers and students. But it’s not exclusive to those fields – Stashboard is a tool that can help absolutely anyone to get organised and be more creative. And with the Chrome ‘Stash it’ Extension you can stash from all your favourite inspiration sites directly into your account.
Backed by Amazon Web Services, and its market leading data protection, everything stored on Stashboard is as safe as it can be.
Located at stashboard.com, the service has launched four ultra competitive price plans, starting with a free 2GB of data storage.
Says Davy: “We want to get the whole creative community onboard – we reckon everybody’s right brain could use a little left brain love.”
21 Comments
this looks pretty damn good. i’ll be checking it out.
I just added the Chrome extension to my browser….booooom!
Will have a look
Great stuff.
Great idea…well done
Great idea guys. Well done. Remember me when you’re both billionaires.
awesome idea guys. Already signed up. Everyone’s going to love this!
Nice work fellas.
It’s like Pinterest then?
Al, did you know you look like Blakey from on the buses.
I ate you butler ehhhhh!!
Absolutely killer concept, but I’m a little shaky on these terms and conditions. I think spinning it the other way would build the trust you need for this kind of market/environment.
T&C 9. b)
“9. Your content: If you choose to add any content on the Site, you:
b. grant us a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide and transferable right and licence to use that content in any way (including but not limited to, by reproducing, changing, and communicating the content to the public) and permit us to authorise any other person to do the same thing;”
Well done Alister!
T&Cs 9b… Interesting
Top work dudes. So proud. Tomorrow the world…
@A. This is something we will change. Our lawyers were supposed to remove this from the T&C’s. The intention of Stashboard is to be completely private for all your assets/files unless you choose to share them. Good spot. Cheers. Al.
YewwwwwwwWWW. go Al
It’s great guys. One thing are you planning on making the content of word/excel doc’s etc visible without having to download them?
Previewing of certain file types is something we will be looking to improve on as we move forward. Currently we have a simple pdf viewer built into single item view this will also be improved. Thanks for feedback keep it coming.
So it’s Dropbox? That uses Icons? If you have Google Drive or Dropbox Pro and are half organised (as you should be in this industry) I don’t see what value you’re adding. I already sync all my fonts, settings, etc through Dropbox. Your product (and indeed Dropbox) isn’t good for stock images, templates, motion footage, or other stuff though because 200gb is ludicrously small for anyone involved in a visual industry.
@DropPin. Thanks for your feedback. Well, we do store and organise your files like Dropbox, but this is only part of our service. Mainly our aim is to create an environment to manage your creative work process. A huge feature is collaboration. We allow you to create stashes and invite multiple people to join and collaborate on the project. So, a photo shoot could have the photographer, the creative, the Creative directer and the production manager all discussing work as it comes through, from start to end product. We also offer 500GB storage, and are aiming to up that significantly to cater for larger file storage. Let me know if you have any more feedback. Thanks again.
… Knew you were going to smash it. Congratulations lads!