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I would appreciate any feedback on your idea for the direction to take my file hosting site http://fileslap.com http://fileslap.com. Sales have been slow (thoug

• mikegreenberg 15y ago
  File hosting is pretty much commoditized. Your value-add is previewing specific types of files in-browser and without downloading. The breadth of your supported filetypes is pretty good. The file hosting part of your service might SEEM like a natural combination, but I don't think it necessarily needs to go together. I think in-browser previews is a more interesting problem (of the two) and would probably be more interesting to find useful ways of connecting a "quick preview" solution to what already exists on the net. I'm thinking browser extensions which tie into the API for specific sites. Like a "Preview" button for Dropbox web interface. Or for Gmail attachments (for the ones Google doesn't already support). IMO: Start exploring the area around instant previews of anything on the web. Consider how you might improve the interactions. Look in that general direction. Unless you can think of some compelling way to improve file storage/hosting, I'd drop that part completely or piggyback on someone who is already established.
  • mcrittenden 15y ago
    This is brilliant feedback. Thanks a ton, I'll mull it over.