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How will this cool feature help your startup make money? How much cost in time and effort did it take to add the feature?
by Kaizyn 16y ago
How will this cool feature help your startup make money? How much cost in time and effort did it take to add the feature?
- felixge 16y ago1. We are infinitely [1] faster at converting video uploads than our competitors now. Speed matters. This is a strong USP. 2. Publicity. There are a bunch of features that would certainly be equally useful to our customers. However, none of them would get much interest from hacker news. We got a lot of signups and page views from this. 3. It took me probably 4 full days [2] to implement this, including the screencast and blog post. That's reasonable for the value added by this feature. --fg [1] We are really infinitely faster if the upload speed is slower than our encoding speed. This is probably the case for 99% of all consumer internet connections at this point. In any case we reduced the time required for an encoding from SUM(Upload, encoding) to MAX(Upload, Encoding). [2] We already made a lot of technology decisions that lowered the cost of implementing this. A competitor would certainly need much more resources to pull this off.