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I can't tell what your app promises to do for me from any of the information on the front page. I can't tell what problem it tries to solve. I can't tell wha
by dasht 17y ago
I can't tell what your app promises to do for me from any of the information on the front page. I can't tell what problem it tries to solve. I can't tell what would actually happen if I uploaded a file. All I know is that you want me to give you some file and it has something to do with sharing. Only, you're a third party I've never met so, why the heck would you want a copy of my file?
- terpua 17y agoIt may or may not solve a problem but it does tell you what it does: it helps you share ppt and powerpoint files.
- Erf 17y agoFrom the perspective of someone encountering the site: how does it help? Why should I use your site instead of just emailing them? Or using Scribd? Or putting it on my network shared drive?
- rokhayakebe 17y agoLet's say you want to share a PDF with some HN readers in a comment, you can quickly upload the document and share the view link with others. No registration, sign in and all the other stuff. You could have the document on your server. But believe it or not, several people do not have servers to host documents they may want to share publicly. I think if you wanted to quickly share a ppt or pdf without much control over the document, then Doxela is much faster to achieve your goal. It's like what Scribd would be if they wanted to do a lite.scribd.com.
- Frazzydee 17y agoMost PDFs I want to share are taken from an online source, so I'd just link to that source. When it isn't, it's usually a document that I'm sharing with a couple people (I would email it). I don't remember the last time that I needed to share a document publicly that I didn't just find online. Since this is such a rare occasion, I probably wouldn't remember this site and just use something more general like dropbox. I don't really see much advantage of this over dropbox. Actually, I prefer my pdf reader over google's since the find feature works better. Sorry. Maybe I'm not the target of your app though. Oh, also, it didn't work for me using safari. One more thing: The text you see after a file is deleted has a grammar mistake: "Your document succesfully deleted."
- rokhayakebe 17y agoThanks Frazzydee for all the feedback. All taken into consideration. And thanks for catching the grammatical error.
- Frazzydee 17y agoNo problem..I actually felt really guilty after writing that for having nothing but negative things to say :( Wish you all the best with it!
- rokhayakebe 17y agoWell, now that you put it like that :). Thank you. The first thing any front should do is to tell visitors what the site is about. Maybe I should be more detailed. Will do. Thanks again.
- dasht 17y agoI'm pleased to have been helpful and, of course, wish you extravagant luck. One of my pet peeves about web sites in general, related to your state: every damn commercial site everywhere should have a darn "about" link so interested potentials can begin to puzzle out who they potentially dealing with.