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Also tonnes of decent ad supported options with no crap like wait time and million popups like Openload Zippyshare AFH
(oh and site looks & performs great! Best of luck for future)
How do you plan to compete with older (& less crappy) services like mediafire? Also tonnes of decent ad supported options with no crap like wait time and million popups like Openload Zippyshare AFH (oh and site looks & performs great! Best of luck for future)
Did you mean to infer that MediaFire was less crappy than this showcased one? Or crappier than this one? Your follow up sentence would indicate the latter.
"There's nothing more annoying than selecting a file and having it removed due to a disallowed file type, therefore all files are allowed*." CTRL+F finds no other asterisk on the page, what's the caveat?
Question - would you, in the future allow uploading to configurable destinations, e.g. my own S3 buckets? Also, do you track the number of time a file asset was downloaded from your service so that the original uploader can check activity stats?
EDIT: Feedback - when I scrolled to the bottom of the home page, the "There is something I have to tell you" section is duplicated under itself.
"It's ridiculously difficult to share a single file online without a bunch of hassle. Most sites either riddle their pages with ads so you have to guess where the correct download button is and usually restrict useful features to their premium users. All those useful features have been added to NoFile and made available for anyone who wants to use it - all free from ads, registrations, payments and it respects your p…
> It's ridiculously difficult to share a single file online without a bunch of hassle. Most sites either riddle their pages with ads so you have to guess where the correct download button is and usually restrict useful features to their premium users. Imho, if you really want to be the "Google of file-sharing", then the UI should be a lot less distracting.
"Encryption - Protect Your Files Protect sensitive files with encryption. Only users with the URL will be able to view it. " This is not encryption - you should change the copy to tell what encryption is used (AES-128 from the info here), even if it's beta. Some more information on that will be welcome.
What's different to so-called 1-click hosters (rapidshare, mega, uploaded, ...)? What's your business model? How do you want to keep DMCA claims at bay? Does this work mobile?
The main difference is that nearly all of these hosts specialize in a specific type of storage. As an example MEGA forces all users to client-side encrypt files before uploading which is useful for sensitive files, but it comes with the cost of incompatibilities with older browsers and devices which can't decrypt/download the files.
Uploaded provides lots of space for the uploaders, but then pushes all users to its premium plan. The site is ridiculously slow to use as a free user as they cap download speeds to 50 KB/s (they bump it up to a 70 KB/s if you take the time to sign-up).
NoFile bundles all the perks of the different hosts and gives the user more options and fewer limits. You can upload large files and choose whether you want to password protect, encrypt or disable previews for your file while still giving the downloaders speeds of at least 2 MB/s.
It's just a simple file host that allows you to share files without having to worry about the downloaders being infected with a virus, not being able to download
What's your business model?
At the moment there is no revenue source. As costs for the hosting go up, there will be a more "humane" premium plan added in the future, but it will targeted to very frequent users and as a free users you won't be affected by the changes.
How do you want to keep DMCA claims at bay?
If a valid DMCA request is sent in together with a link then we will be forced to respect the content creator and take the link down.
Does this work mobile?
This works on every single device regardless of whether you have Javascript enabled or not. If you however enable the client-side encryption feature (currently in BETA) which is disabled by default then users on older browsers and devices won't be able to download your file.
> As long as possible
What a stupid answer to that question! (it gives more info - "You can set an expiry time by pressing the "Options"-button that's next to your uploaded file, otherwise your files will float in the clouds for as long as possible." - but it still doesn't really give any answer)
"It's ridiculously difficult to share a single file online without a bunch of hassle. Most sites either riddle their pages with ads so you have to guess where the correct download button is and usually restrict useful features to their premium users. All those useful features have been added to NoFile and made available for anyone who wants to use it - all free from ads, registrations, payments and it respects your p…
The example download pages from the FAQ all return 404, you might want to look into that.
"It's ridiculously difficult to share a single file online without a bunch of hassle. Most sites either riddle their pages with ads so you have to guess where the correct download button is and usually restrict useful features to their premium users. All those useful features have been added to NoFile and made available for anyone who wants to use it - all free from ads, registrations, payments and it respects your p…
> It's ridiculously difficult to share a single file online without a bunch of hassle. Most sites either riddle their pages with ads so you have to guess where the correct download button is and usually restrict useful features to their premium users. Imho, if you really want to be the "Google of file-sharing", then the UI should be a lot less distracting.
Perhaps it would be useful to add an option that toggles the animations on/off.