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Tidewise
Compare backup storage and retrieval costs against your real restore habits
- Score
- 57
- confidence 59
- Evidence
- 6
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 2
- named in sources
- First version
- 25 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2006
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Engineers analyze restore history, compare provider costs and evaluate what-if scenarios with data tables at a desk. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Monthly comparison
Sample data$31 saved
About this appAI proposal
Tidewise reads your backup storage and retrieval history and prices it against the current rates of the providers you could use. It shows what you pay now, what the same month would cost elsewhere, and how much of the gap is storage, retrieval or egress.
It also weighs transfer speed. You enter where your data and machines sit, run a quick test download from each candidate region, and Tidewise adds the measured speed to the cost picture. A cheaper plan that restores slowly is flagged.
Made for teams and individuals who pull hundreds of gigabytes of backup data each month. It gives a clear recommendation and a migration checklist, so switching is a planned step and not a guess.
- Tagline
- Know what your backups really cost, and where they'd cost less.
- Voice
- PlainCalmPrecise
- Why this name
- Tides rise and fall like retrieval volume and prices; wise is the choice made with both in view. Two plain words, easy to say.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Cost from your real usage
Import monthly stored size, retrieved size and egress from a bill or CSV. See total cost by provider, not just per-GB list prices.
No member yet
Speed-aware comparison
Run a test download per region from your own location. Cost and measured throughput sit side by side.
No member yet
Split-data suggestions
Finds cases where hot data on one provider and cold archives on another cost less than one provider for everything.
No member yet
Price change watch
Rates are re-checked on a schedule. You get an email when a change moves your best option.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
Check the name against trademark registers before using it.
Palette
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Typography
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Tidewise
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no price for this kind of tool. Backblaze's page lists paid plans from $6.95 to $15 by usage, so Pro sits near that range. Tiers are a starting point to test.
Free
Free
- One provider connection
- Manual CSV import
- Cost comparison
Pro
$9 a month
- Up to 3 providers
- Speed tests by region
- Price change alerts
- Egress allowance tracker
Team
$29 a month
- Unlimited providers
- Split-data suggestions
- Migration checklists
- Shared reports
Would you pay Pro · $9 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Users export a cost comparison or migration plan as a link or PDF to share with a manager, client or teammate who approves the switch.
- Do they become customers?
- Recipients are often budget holders and could become paying users, but this is untested. Test whether shared reports lead to sign-ups.
- First customers
- Small IT consultancies and self-hosting teams who restore hundreds of gigabytes of backup data per month and choose storage for clients or themselves.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and Reddit: Post a free calculator for storage versus retrieval cost, with a note on how it was built.
- Sysadmin communities: Offer free comparisons to people discussing backup bills and ask for feedback.
- First milestone
- Ten paying Pro users who each act on a recommendation within two months of sign-up.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedBackblaze B2's pricing page lists 2 paid plans, from $6.95 to $15 by usage, plus a free plan
- Public claimBackblaze B2 states on its own website: Customer saved $15,000 per month switching from AWS
- Public claimUser spends approximately $50 per month on cloud backup and related costs
- Public claimBackblaze B2 offered different pricing structure with lower egress costs but higher storage costs
- Public claim
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Pricing dataScheduled price collector with a reviewed rate tableProvider rates change and must be refreshed and versioned on a schedule.
- This app · Speed testBrowser-based download test against test objectsMeasures real download throughput from the user's own location.
RisksAI inference
- DataProvider prices and terms change often and are complex. Stale or wrong rates would give bad advice, so the rate table needs review and visible dates.
- CommercialUsers in the material spend about $50 a month. Savings may be too small to justify a subscription except for heavier users.
- TechnicalBrowser speed tests may not match real server-to-cloud transfer speeds, so results need clear caveats.
- PlatformProviders may change export formats or add their own cost advisors, narrowing the gap this product fills.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.