I'm operating DropJar.om and I can say it's a big headache. For some reason I keep getting DMCA notices from all kinds of lawyers and the occasional take down notice from police when ISIS videos are uploaded there. No income and tons of complaints. http://dropjar.com
Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
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Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
#92Bandwidth and storage aren't free. What is your business model? Things without clear business models usually me YOU are the business model.
Looks like nofile.io is depending on cloudflare. Which, I assume doesn't jive with their TOS "SECTION 10: LIMITATION ON NON-HTML CACHING" policy.
Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
A few years ago bandwidth and storage was much more expensive than it is today. Rapidshare was a service that had to swiftly and reluctantly change their business model. They were operating out of large offices with over 60 employees and due to the change they saw a sudden drstic drop in revenue. Rapidshare's financial information isn't public since it's a private company, but one could argue whether they were actual…
I think Rapidshare earned tons of money. At one time RS was the go-to filehost for pirated material. They had almost anything you wanted, and they seldom removed files.
Then came the FBI raid against various filehosts. I remember few of the other hosts got taken down and charged, while others shut their site down as precaution. I remember Rapidshare starting their decline during this phase, something tells me Rapidshare did it on purpose and 'ran away' with the earned money before the feds got them.
Well thats my theory :)
Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
#94Like the concept.
Testing on FF 51.0.1 and I can't seem to see the expiry option which is supposed to be alongside the file that I uploaded. Maybe using a different browser would work?
Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
#95Some initial feedback:
* Title Case Everywhere Looks Weird
* Hovering over 'resolution' on the detail page shows a tooltip with the text 'Upload date'
* I uploaded a .NEF file and it seems to think it's 160x120 (it's actually 6000x4000)
* The buttons next to the link field on the detail page are not the same height as the input.
* When uploading the background icons become jerky (presumably due to the upload causing long frames)
* When uploading there was no speed / ETA data shown, just a spinner.
* I felt the animations on the homepage were all a little superfluous.
* The links in the footer link to places on the page, but without updating the URL hash, probably worth adding one to make it more linkable.Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
#96Can you remove the animation at the beginning, I've a bad vision and I could only read the text once it stopped moving, and I don't think this animation adds anything except eating the few seconds I give to a new website before choosing if I leave or stay. (at the opposite of the background animation that is okay)
Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
#97I'm operating DropJar.om and I can say it's a big headache. For some reason I keep getting DMCA notices from all kinds of lawyers and the occasional take down notice from police when ISIS videos are uploaded there. No income and tons of complaints. http://dropjar.com
There's a referral link in the lower right corner of your site. A few seconds after the page loads, clicking anywhere on the page takes you to hidemyass.com.
I don't know if this was intentional on your part, but if so it's pretty deceptive.
Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
#98Really cool stuff! I love the design. One bit of feedback I would give you though is to go easy on the CSS transitions, especially where the user has a target for interaction (navigation links, dragging and dropping...). Not that it's not visually interesting to keep them but makes it a little painful to have moving targets.
Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
#99Bandwidth and storage aren't free. What is your business model? Things without clear business models usually me YOU are the business model.
Looks like nofile.io is depending on cloudflare. Which, I assume doesn't jive with their TOS "SECTION 10: LIMITATION ON NON-HTML CACHING" policy.
Only static content is served over Cloudflare.
All uploads/downloads are done directly with the storage servers.
Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
#100Check your contact area. I notified you of an XSS issue.