Welcome to the Forge

CloudMe is being rebooted, and the Forge is where we'll think out loud while we do it.

For ten years CloudMe has quietly served Europeans who want their files in European hands, on European infrastructure, under European law. That premise matters more in 2026 than it did when CloudMe started. The cracks in the US-cloud-as-default model are no longer subtle: jurisdiction questions get real every quarter, sovereignty rulings keep landing, and people who care about where their data sleeps are no longer a fringe.

CloudMe is building toward what comes next — not a clone of Dropbox or OneDrive, but European cloud done as it should have been from the start: sovereign by default, open where it matters, extensible enough to actually build on. There's a CLI being polished. An app platform being aligned with XIOS/3. Storage that wants to consolidate the four or five other services people are paying for, not add itself as a fifth.

The Forge is where we'll publish what we're working on, what we've learned, and where we think the European stack is heading. Some of it will be technical: how the WebDAV/REST split works, what we found probing our own service, why the CLI looks the way it does. Some of it will be opinion: where we agree with the prevailing European-cloud narrative, where we diverge, and what we think founders building on European rails should actually do.

A few things you can expect:

• Honest engineering posts. Real numbers, real failure modes, real trade-offs. We'd rather say “this doesn't work yet” than “coming soon.”
• Opinion you can disagree with. Where digital sovereignty narratives drift into theatre, we'll say so. Where they're genuinely loadbearing, we'll defend them.
• Notes from the build. Less polished than launch posts, more useful. How the platform is taking shape as it takes shape.
• No marketing-speak. If a sentence could appear on any storage vendor's homepage, it doesn't belong here.

The Forge isn't the only place CloudMe will publish — there's a roadmap, a support channel, a press track. But this is where the thinking happens, in public, while it's still hot.

If any of that sounds interesting, stick around. The next post will be about why we're treating the upload-size limits we found in our own service as a product issue, not a footnote.

— Henrik