Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works
by shacharz on Saturday July 06, 2013 @10:26AM
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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
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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.
Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works
by djim on Saturday July 06, 2013 @10:57AM
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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).
Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works
by shacharz on Saturday July 06, 2013 @11:14AM
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1 gig is nothing (for many people needs).
anyway I don't see sharefest as a replacement, but rather another tool.
Re:An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works
by tommi on Saturday July 06, 2013 @11:29AM
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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.