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At the moment there is no revenue source. So what makes you think your fate will be any different than that of all the other free file hosts that have had to resort to advertising in order to survive?
The site will simply not operate with large margins like other sites. The cost of keeping the servers and development running will be covered by a premium plan that's targeted to heavy users.
I don't mean to be negative, it's just that I've seen the transition from free to freemium to ad-supported to Rapidshare to dead happen over and over again. These services don't seem to operate with large margins - from the outside, it looks more like all of them are on the brink of bankruptcy.
The following phrase made me feel a little uncomfortable about using the product.
"How can this be a free service? Magic. In the future a paid service will be introduced offering more awesome features, but don't worry it shouldn't affect the free service."
I'd rephrase this - definitely remove the shouldn't as that tells me that while my files shouldn't be deleted, they might be.
Finally, just a minor thing, but the down arrow under the "Click Here Or Drag & Drop To Start Uploading" doesn't work for me (latest Chrome on Mac). I assume it should scroll down the page but it didn't for me at least.
"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…
When you upload the same file it warn. Good enough. But when you continue anyway the KB/s and ETA displays do not show anything.
The PDF preview doesn't show my PDF ... is that a placeholder or someone else's file? http://i.imgur.com/IEHrxm7.png https://nofile.io/f/KrLDHQyKt4J
You should now be able to see your own PDF instead of a placeholder, thanks for pointing it out.
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>> "there will be a more humane premium plan" In plain-English, what does this mean?
Basic features will be available to all free users and no extreme upload/download limits (e.g 100 KB/s download speeds, 100 MB upload limits, etc.).
I might be wrong, but it seems to me that the encryption key for the file is the truncated SHA256 hash of the file itself. This is not how you want to generate an encryption key. Edit: also, password protection is enforced server side, and has nothing to do with encryption
The password encryption is indeed server-side, but it is mainly there to protect the file against anyone who somehow finds/guesses the URL and it's a useful feature if you want to slightly increase the level of security without encrypting the file with AES.
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The site will simply not operate with large margins like other sites. The cost of keeping the servers and development running will be covered by a premium plan that's targeted to heavy users.
Isn't storing and serving terabytes of stuff pretty expensive? How many heavy users do you think you'll manage to win over in the first place, much less convince them to pay for the privilege of uploading their 100GB of illicit car diagnostic software to your website? Do you have an actual niche you plan to target? I don't mean to be negative, it's just that I've seen the transition from free to freemium to ad-suppor…
Lets imagine our average citizen uploads quarter of a gigabyte, that means 4,000 visitors uploading files per $10 client. Assuming you can keep other costs really low, it's not too outrageously expensive.
Nice work, looks like an interesting project. I do think your site copy could do with some work though. It's not entirely clear from the current text what the service actually is - is it for sharing files with others, is it a Dropbox competitor or is it an S3 competitor? The following phrase made me feel a little uncomfortable about using the product. "How can this be a free service? Magic. In the future a paid servi…
NoFile is a simple tool that allows you to quickly share files with lots of options, nearly no limitations and at the same time as you don't have to sign in.
"I'd rephrase this - definitely remove the shouldn't as that tells me that while my files shouldn't be deleted, they might be."
You're right about that as the premium plan will never lead to files uploaded by free users to be deleted. The premium plan will only be targeted to more heavy users and won't affect the free users.
"Finally, just a minor thing, but the down arrow under the "Click Here Or Drag & Drop To Start Uploading" doesn't work for me (latest Chrome on Mac). I assume it should scroll down the page but it didn't for me at least."
The button was indeed not working and it's now been fixed, thanks for pointing it out.