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Rate/Review my startup - streamfile
- truebosko 18y agoSimple, works great, and great concept. Love it. Curious to see how it would truly work on a large file though, will try a bigger one later today ..
- attack 18y agoIt streams it? That's very useful.
- btw0 18y agoThe site is slow.
- kimovski 18y agoThe site may appear slow to north american visitors due to the fact that all servers are located in Sweden, Nothern Europe (this is why we also can afford the bandwith at the moment). Plans are soon to add server nodes in U.S, Middle East and Hong Kong.
- cstejerean 18y agoI'm curious, how does the cost of bandwidth in Sweden compare to the US?
- kimovski 18y agoGood question. I'm not sure, but I think it has to do with that Sweden has one of the highest penetration of fiber optic networks due to government subsidization starting early 90-ties.
- davo11 18y agoIt's a bit slow from Australia to. It's a really excellent idea and a very simple implementation, like others though I think it needs some more explanation. Good luck.
- natch 18y agoSo, if I understand this correctly, I could start uploading a 2GB file, and, while it is still uploading, my recipient could start downloading it, even before the upload has finished? Did I get that right?
- nailer 18y agoIt might be good to have some kind of visualization to show the process (along with a better explanation).
- zacharye 18y agoOn this note, I love the concept and the simple design but with all of that open real estate on the homepage you might consider one short explanatory blurb to greet visitors and pull them right in.
- kimovski 18y agoAgree. Actually, We will shortly add an embedded movie clip that greets visitors with a short presentation and explanation of the service.
- aditya 18y agoPeople don't watch those things, they _barely_ read. so two quick sentences will get you much further...
- kimovski 18y agoI agree, however we would like not to get users confused that Stremfile.com is yet another web 2.0 app with large headlines etc. We want it to breathe backend and be very minimalistic. I mean look at Google.com?
- aditya 18y agoGood copy written in large headlines (or not?) goes a long way compared to a video that no one will watch, no? Don't take my word for it though - do A/B on your homepage with a video and with text and see which results in higher number of uploads, perhaps?
- marcus 18y agoWhy shouldn't I just seed a file as a torrent? torrents let the people who started downloading, upload segments they have already downloaded...
- tlrobinson 18y agoThis seems a bit simpler, especially if you don't already have a BitTorrent client. But perhaps Streamfile could be a frontend to a simplified BitTorrent tracker. I don't know the details of how the BitTorrent protocol works, could it start seeding a partially uploaded file, or does it require knowledge of the entire file before seeding can begin?
- marcus 18y agoYes you start seeding, without uploading a single bit. People connect to your public/private tracker, and start downloading the data from you and from other downloaders who have already downloaded very small chunks of the file. But you're right this solution is a bit simpler for the average user.
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- cstejerean 18y agoI would have a hard time explaining bit torrent to my parents.
- sosueme 18y agoVery nice concept. I would use it with my coworkers that can not get ftp or web folders working.
- nailer 18y agoAgreed. SFTP isn't always allowed through firewalls, FTP is worse, and WebDAV is a bitch to set up easily. This fulfills a decent need, better than the competitors where you have to wait till you're finished uploading the file.
- aaroneous 18y agoHaven't seen this idea before, and I really dig it. There are a lot of times where I want to transfer something over Adium, but the connection between the parties can't be established. I always was frustrated by the asynchronous workaround of uploading the file, waiting for its completion, and then distributing the url, so your site will come in handy for me. I also like the https option. Right now the site is running a bit sluggish, hopefully you guys can remedy that shortly.
- rossriley 18y agoReally like this idea, gave it a try and sure enough I was simultaneously downloading and uploading the same file. It seems to do what Dropsend and YouSendIt do in a much simpler way.
- quickpost 18y agoI actually read about this earlier this week on this site here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249823 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249823 I've used it several times already to exchange files with friends. Just today I sent a 700mb movie to a friend of mine - love the service...
- jgamman 18y agoi was the poster of that question and this service and using a complicated name on limewire were the two options i could come up with for my non-IT friends (and even then limewire was 10 steps too far). well done.
- louislouis 18y agoLove the simplicity of the site. Awesome service. I just sent a pic of myself to myself: http://www.streamfile.com/id/ZmkDG4QW1YhbiI90YNbCNgyM754Ke/1216572155801s.jpg http://www.streamfile.com/id/ZmkDG4QW1YhbiI90YNbCNgyM754Ke/1... It's a shame I cant view the jpg in the browser but great work nonetheless. Though I think bandwidth will get very costly quick.
- cstejerean 18y agoI can view it in a browser just fine.
- louislouis 18y agoOh yeh, looks like it works in IE but not FF. I get presented with a download box in FF
- cstejerean 18y agoI was trying Safari so I'm guessing it's only FF that's broken.
- noonespecial 18y agoIts tight. Its useful. It works. Well done, I'd say. Good luck to you.
- kimovski 18y agoStreamfile is thought to work as a service aimed to enterprise environment where bittorent clients and ports are blocked on most client computers & networks. I agree that the streaming progress can be presented in a better way, we are working on this as we speak.
- avinashv 18y agoSo this is very similar to eatlime.com. I love the idea (I use eatlime on a very regular basis). Unfortunately, eatlime is faster for me. I'll give you major points for a super clean interface.
- kimovski 18y agoI don't believe eatlime have any "streaming" functionality such as starting the DL before the uploader is finished? They may be fast now, but can their platform scale?
- danohuiginn 18y agoNeat idea. Quibbles: 1) No explanation of what you're doing. Minimalism is good, being completely text-free not so much. 2) Entering an invalid email address, I get something that looks like a mangled smartquote (opera on ubuntu): 'Email address Recipient’s email(s) is not valid.'
- kimovski 18y agoWill look in to the Opera + Ubuntu bug asap. Thanks for that.
- danhak 18y agoThere's no need for a flash navigation bar. You may disagree, but It's my opinion that flash should only be used when absolutely necessary. Great idea, though. Great domain and great design.
- kimovski 18y agoThanks. Got your point and to some parts agree, let's see what we deside on.
- agentbleu 18y agohow will you charge for this?
- kimovski 18y agoIn the beginning we will add customers manually and charge them via www.kreditor.se
- mstevens 18y agoSome explanation would be nice...
- mmelin 18y agoThis is a very useful service, kimovski, and I wish you the best of luck with selling it. I still think you should implement my suggestion of: a) having a splash screen explaining that the file isn't finished yet for recipients or b) sending all files with a content-type to make the browser download instead of trying to play media files. MMC @ WN.se :)
- kimovski 18y agoWe got a bunch of feedback actually on the content-type issue. Definitely something to fix.
- thorax 18y agoMan, I tried this a bunch of times and it never sent any email and just stared at me pretty blankly. Until I realized the problem is that your site doesn't except "+" characters in emails and then fails silently entirely, leaving me the expectation that it might be waiting for me. Anyway, please change the site to something that allows + signs in email addresses so I can try this out that way. Thanks in advance! You should also fix it such that it doesn't ever fail blankly without any feedback to the user of the problem.
- kimovski 18y agoWill look into and solve this asap.
- randome 18y agoCool idea... I understood instantly what it does ... and I think most of your audience will too... the term "streaming" has become pretty ubiquitous. How do you plan to monetize?
- kimovski 18y agoThe plan is soon to launch an API where you pay a monthly fee to integrate streamfile functionality into your own site/domain. Plus we will charge for the regular service, that are currently for free until the 31st of August.
- timm5 18y agoGreat idea. Most likely recipients of a streamfile dont know what a "stream" as opposed to a "file" so in the recipients email, the subj shouldnt be "you have a new stream..." it should be "You have a file...". This will help minimize users passing it over as spam.
- kimovski 18y agoGood point, thanks.