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creamyhorror, you have perhaps the best HackerNews username ever. Whatever was your inspiration? WireOver was born out of sheer annoyance, because it's ridicul
by tashmahalic 15y ago
creamyhorror, you have perhaps the best HackerNews username ever. Whatever was your inspiration?
WireOver was born out of sheer annoyance, because it's ridiculous that sending files over WANs and LANs is still such a pain.
Our guiding principle: BE NOT ANNOYING.
Ads would be annoying, so they're out. File size limits are annoying. Failed transfers are annoying, slow transfers are annoying, cluttered UIs are annoying, not sleeping well at night because you're worried about security is annoying.
Transfers should find the fastest route automatically - over internet or LAN - and they should go seamlessly between Mac, Windows, and Linux. That's what we want ourselves as users. We'd be pleased as punch to lower the annoyance level for others too.
- creamyhorror 15y agoThat's a great principle to have. Less annoying things make life better - although I have no doubt it can take a lot of effort to eliminate annoyances (especially when you have to build a lot of intelligence into the system). We try to do the same in my own project, although we often have to assign 'nicer' (de-annoying) features to a v2 protoype because of limited dev resources. It's great that you guys are all coders (AFAICT). My username makes people conjure up all sorts of images, which is why it's great for me to never plant a definitive one in their heads. I'm thinking of changing it, though, since it's none too professional on the rather social startup scene!
- MrJagil 15y agoMan, that's a really great starting point.
- nik_0_0 15y agoSounds great. I still find it mind boggling how slow MSN 'p2p' transfer can be, I would love a great solution and will definitely give this a shot.