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Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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Excellent service! I tried it and it's very simple and easy to use. I'm curious... how does one initiate a P2P transfer between two computers using just browser technology?

We built a reliable file transfer method on top of the peer-to-peer media streaming technology used by Chat-Roulette and its clones, RTMFP.

Would love to read more about your solution. Am I correct to assume that your business model will focus on licensing this technology?

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

#12
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1) "[ ] Set a Password [ ] Reusable Link?" Should have tags on the text. 2) When you click "Set a Password" it should set focus to the input. I couldn't even tell it was an input box, I thought it was just a gray box. Style changes could help too.

Thanks for the feedback, we're really working to make the site as easy to use as possible and you're right on about the set password input box.

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We built a reliable file transfer method on top of the peer-to-peer media streaming technology used by Chat-Roulette and its clones, RTMFP.

Which is a relatively recent addition to Flash.

Haha yeah, its a pretty awesome addition to Flash. I kind of gloss over that word because I hate Flash as much as the next hacker, but it provided a method to solve a problem that was plaguing John and I and was impossible to solve otherwise.

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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post #4

Excellent service! I tried it and it's very simple and easy to use. I'm curious... how does one initiate a P2P transfer between two computers using just browser technology?

We built a reliable file transfer method on top of the peer-to-peer media streaming technology used by Chat-Roulette and its clones, RTMFP.

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Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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post #4

Excellent service! I tried it and it's very simple and easy to use. I'm curious... how does one initiate a P2P transfer between two computers using just browser technology?

We built a reliable file transfer method on top of the peer-to-peer media streaming technology used by Chat-Roulette and its clones, RTMFP.

I'm really anxious to learn more about p2p tech so I can apply it to my research. Do you know any really good references, libraries, and or literature? How did you go about exploring it? Any advice? (Is RTMFP suitable for distributed data processing?)

Also, congrats on your startup! You're working on a problem that is a major headache for all of us.

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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Missing from the article (and the linked summary of other sites that do this) is letscrate.com, which does it so well that I'm not even interested in looking at sendoid. It's dead easy, and my clients understand and remember the name after I say it once.

I dig Crate, but we don't really do the same thing. letscrate.com is an really awesomely designed and implemented cloud storage provider. Sendoid.com is an in browser file transfer method. I wouldn't consider us competitors (at most very indirectly) and think more than anything we complement products like Crate or DropBox.

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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Missing from the article (and the linked summary of other sites that do this) is letscrate.com, which does it so well that I'm not even interested in looking at sendoid. It's dead easy, and my clients understand and remember the name after I say it once.

sendoid avoids storage/bandwidth overhead ... from now on letscrate is "old school"

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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post #4

Excellent service! I tried it and it's very simple and easy to use. I'm curious... how does one initiate a P2P transfer between two computers using just browser technology?

We built a reliable file transfer method on top of the peer-to-peer media streaming technology used by Chat-Roulette and its clones, RTMFP.

what are you using as the server? it's my understanding that RTMFP was only recently reverse-engineered.

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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Missing from the article (and the linked summary of other sites that do this) is letscrate.com, which does it so well that I'm not even interested in looking at sendoid. It's dead easy, and my clients understand and remember the name after I say it once.

Crate is really great, and I definitely like their UI a lot more, but Sendoid really knocks it out of the park in terms of speed and security.
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