At the end of the day, it is an amazing experience simply just to search and organize files from not just devices, but disconnected drives. Search is lightning fast, the UI is clean and you own all the data, given its local first and peer-to-peer.
Hate it if you must, but we're super passionate about it and are ruthlessly working to reach full stability across all platforms.
I think that you should be pitching it a little differently: many people are confused about what your soundbite is actually saying (I also thought it was a file explorer, like all other file explorers I have even used).
Maybe lean hard into a phrase like "Unified file browser; see all files on all your devices, all at once, all the time".[1]
The other thing I would emphasise is that this isn't syncthing. You don't have to mention syncthing by name, but you could emphasise that "Your files aren't synced between devices, they're visible to all your devices".
Too many people who would otherwise use this would dismiss it with "I'm already using syncthing"! AIUI, you aren't syncing files between devices, only syncing file-listings.[2]
PS. For my own use, unfortunately, I don't need something like this. Sorry.
While it would be a nice to have in theory, it just doesn't solve any pain-points I am currently experiencing.
For example, any important document I need to read on different devices is already either in my email, or on google drive. I view movies on Netflix+AMZ+Disney+, I only ever share photos with others, not with other devices that belong to me. It's rare that I look at a file stored locally on my phone and say "I need to see this on my PC", or vice versa. It just never happens.
[1] That came out sounding super-weird: I did warn you that I wasn't any good at marketing :-)
[2] I expect you provide value on top of that, like transparently copy-n-paste between two different devices, even from a third device.
I don't think many people on here actually understand it.
Comparison table on your website showing what makes it different to Dropbox etc. would help.
You know, I had quite a bashful [though in a good spirit] comment on your work before, but, thankfully, HN throttled me.
But thanks to your reply here now I not only can't endorse you, but I have an evidence what you really make some extremely opinionated thing and everybody else is wrong.
I can't wish you luck and I don't see myself as someone who would wait for news for this project.
Here you are in the church of pg giving shit to people following the scriptures of pg.
Creators - ignore shit like this. Keep iterating. I like your idea, your execution will get better and better. Well done both on releasing stuff and going open source!