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I prototyped something like this recently and enjoyed it quite a bit, so I'm glad somebody else has tried to make it into a business. I, for one, am a bit skept
by jmtulloss 19y ago
I prototyped something like this recently and enjoyed it quite a bit, so I'm glad somebody else has tried to make it into a business. I, for one, am a bit skeptical for a few reasons.
1. The barrier to entry is pretty high. In a world dominated by web apps, who wants to try a heavyweight Java app that might take a full 2 minutes to get set up? We live in a 30 second world these days.
2. Home routers are messy. People who aren't tech savvy aren't going to want to mess around with opening ports. UPnP helps this, but I've found that it's unreliable on many popular, low quality routers. Users who download the app and then find that it doesn't work oftentimes will just give up instead of diving into the router.
Of course, maybe I'm underestimating how much the average consumer can get done these days. It'll be interesting to see what kind of coverage this gets, especially since I'm working on an app that approaches the problem more in the style of Anywhere.FM.