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Rather than going for a niche, how about a wider audience? The majority of file sharing sites allow anonymous uploads and yours does not.
by jolan 15y ago
Rather than going for a niche, how about a wider audience? The majority of file sharing sites allow anonymous uploads and yours does not.
- mcrittenden 15y agoI originally allowed anonymous uploads (back when it was just a hobby site that I wasn't trying to make money off of) and took it away for a couple reasons: - It was losing me tons of money because uploads were coming in like crazy and I wasn't making any money off of the site. - I had no way to keep track of who's uploading what and interact with or analyze my customers and their usage. I'm considering adding anonymous uploads that expire after a short amount of time (like 5 minutes or so) just as a way to let people try out the service before signing up. Do you see that as a good alternative? Or is even that not enough?
- jolan 15y ago> losing me tons of money There are a lot hosts that charge for throughput and not actual bandwidth, i.e. https://www.gandi.net/hosting/ https://www.gandi.net/hosting/ > I had no way to keep track Cookies? If you like reddit, advertise it there as "like imgur but for all file types"