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Grats on your launch! I echo the sibling comment that was slightly faster in asking about the disconnect between p2p companies and profitability. There has been

by niftich 10y ago

Grats on your launch! I echo the sibling comment that was slightly faster in asking about the disconnect between p2p companies and profitability. There has been no shortage of efforts that tried to capitalize (and monetize) on the success of 'bandwidth sharing' that was perhaps brought to the forefront by BitTorrent, although pioneered before by early p2p networks. Most of these companies appear to have faltered, while a few of them were bought out by big companies (example: [1][2]) and their technology has yet to be conclusively observed in the wild. Yet another class continues to run their offerings, but has drastically toned down marketing (example: [3]) There are also a good number of non-commercial explorations in this space, of various quality, from toys to demos to full-fledged networks. How do you plan to distinguish yourself? [1] https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/17/yahoo-acquires-peercdn/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/17/yahoo-acquires-peercdn/ [2] http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2013/03/14/microsoft-acquires-pando-next-xbox-uses-rumoured/ http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2013/03/14/microsoft-acquires-pa... [3] http://www.bittorrent.com/dna/ http://www.bittorrent.com/dna/

mino 10y ago
I was about to write exactly the same comment myself. Also, let me add: 1) how does this work behind NAT? 2) as someone else pointed out already, your logo looks like a cheap ripoff of HTML5 :) Good luck.
- shacharz 10y ago
  1. WebRTC uses ICE[1] protocol to go over NAT and puncture Firwalls. 2. HTML5 logo is under common license agreement and we give it attribution in the /about page.
  - mino 10y ago
    1. Thanks. 2. Irrelevant: what tech people (i.e., the actual decision makers on becoming your customer) will immediately think is "look they plagiarised HTML5's logo", not "let me go through their site to see whether there's attribution" :)
shacharz 10y ago
For PeerCDN checkout [1]. What differentiates our solution from previous P2P services like BTDNA, Pando is the underlying technology stack - WebRTC, that eliminates the number 1 barrier - user needed to download and install a plugin. From the research we've done by talking with all of those previous solution was that was their number 1 barrier. Our goal is to improve video user experience, and enable the full transition of TV to the web. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13501923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13501923

by niftich 10y ago

mino 10y ago

I was about to write exactly the same comment myself. Also, let me add: 1) how does this work behind NAT? 2) as someone else pointed out already, your logo looks like a cheap ripoff of HTML5 :) Good luck.

shacharz 10y ago
1. WebRTC uses ICE[1] protocol to go over NAT and puncture Firwalls. 2. HTML5 logo is under common license agreement and we give it attribution in the /about page.
- mino 10y ago
  1. Thanks. 2. Irrelevant: what tech people (i.e., the actual decision makers on becoming your customer) will immediately think is "look they plagiarised HTML5's logo", not "let me go through their site to see whether there's attribution" :)

shacharz 10y ago

For PeerCDN checkout [1]. What differentiates our solution from previous P2P services like BTDNA, Pando is the underlying technology stack - WebRTC, that eliminates the number 1 barrier - user needed to download and install a plugin. From the research we've done by talking with all of those previous solution was that was their number 1 barrier. Our goal is to improve video user experience, and enable the full transition of TV to the web. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13501923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13501923