An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works

Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works by tommi on Saturday July 06, 2013 @08:51AM (#5998730)

Won't work for me. I want to send a file, know when it's done and close my computer. With Dropbox and others I know when it's sent from my perspective. With P2P the whole system becomes unstable. And for all of my file sharing, it is unacceptable. Too much uncertainty.

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Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works by shacharz on Saturday July 06, 2013 @09:04AM (#5998760)

if you're only sending to one recipient we have that feature in (you get file downloaded green message on the top) if you have multi recipient that's a more complex ui problem that we're thinking of... Thanks for the feedback

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Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works by tommi on Saturday July 06, 2013 @09:46AM (#5998853)

Thanks for the reply! If I have to think that will I also CC somebody/team/any group before sending it out, then it becomes too complex for me. It's not then the easiest by far since I already have a working solution!

Maybe I'm just not in the target group.

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Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works by shacharz on Saturday July 06, 2013 @10:26AM (#5998945)

Well I agree that dropbox is easy, but it's also limited. Space for example. Also, if you're sending to a group of co-workers you don't have to upload the entire thing to the cloud. it'll transfer blazingly fast inside the LAN.

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Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works by tommi on Saturday July 06, 2013 @11:23AM (#5999081)

If the files I'm sending would be huge, which for me they never are, and if I'm inside a LAN then I can use a file server for that. It would also be a directory for those files.

I think there's something in your product, but it doesn't have any selling points for me. Even if you make it as good as Dropbox or any other service, I won't change. For that, you need to be better than existing solutions.

Either be better or be different. Generic user facing file sharing - been there, done that.

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Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works by djim on Saturday July 06, 2013 @10:57AM (#5999013)

storage space and bandwidth are not really limiting factors on today's internet. i have over 100gig of online storage and 25mbps internet, for example. (corrected 1gig to 100gig).

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Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works by shacharz on Saturday July 06, 2013 @11:14AM (#5999064)

1 gig is nothing (for many people needs). anyway I don't see sharefest as a replacement, but rather another tool.

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Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works by tommi on Saturday July 06, 2013 @11:29AM (#5999086)

2 (up to 18) gigs from Dropbox free. Google Drive 15 gig free. For team of 15, Dropbox offers $2000/year for unlimited storage.

Like djim said, storage space and bandwidth are non-issues.

May I suggest trying to get Sharefest popular within a niche? You may have to adapt to that particular niche, but I think it'll help you a lot.

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