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There is ripe opportunity for someone to build this technology again (perhaps innovate in places, but not necessarily) and work to a free-mium model. A great b
by dotBen 17y ago
There is ripe opportunity for someone to build this technology again (perhaps innovate in places, but not necessarily) and work to a free-mium model.
A great business could be made from $3-month pro accounts, as there is a massive amount of people who would love to use this but are not going to pay $200 year/seat for this technology.
- aaronbrethorst 17y agoI'd be skeptical of any product that guaranteed to keep my data safe and only cost $3/mo. Depending on usage, it could be really interesting to consider a Fog Creek Copilot-like business model: charge a reasonable monthly fee for unfettered access and a small fee for one-off usage. That way, you could nail that $3 a pop sort of usage, and guarantee yourself a steady stream of income at the $20-$30 range.
- wmf 17y agoDid people use Hamachi to keep their data safe or to ease NAT/firewall traversal?
- noodle 17y agoi used it for gaming
- krakensden 17y agoWhich is a large part of the reason new PC games don't support LAN play.
- andrewtj 17y agoIf it was for the later, I think Wide-Area Bonjour (DNS-SD) is a good substitute. Bonjour handles port-forwarding via NAT-PMP or uPnP as well service discovery. I have a bias or two though (see profile).
- ericd 17y agoI used it for playing games in LAN mode.
- metamemetics 17y ago$200/year is only for business license. Hamachi is full featured and FREE for noncommercial use.