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Re: Rate/Review my startup - streamfile

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Post by kimovski » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 9:03 PM UTC

cstejerean wrote: post #37

kimovski wrote: post #17

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The site may appear slow to north american visitors due to the fact that all servers are located in Sweden, Nothern Europe (this is why we also can afford the bandwith at the moment). Plans are soon to add server nodes in U.S, Middle East and Hong Kong.

I'm curious, how does the cost of bandwidth in Sweden compare to the US?

Good question. I'm not sure, but I think it has to do with that Sweden has one of the highest penetration of fiber optic networks due to government subsidization starting early 90-ties.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - streamfile

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Post by kimovski » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 9:20 PM UTC

bayleo wrote: post #49

kimovski wrote: post #30

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Agree. Actually, We will shortly add an embedded movie clip that greets visitors with a short presentation and explanation of the service.

In my opinion no explanation should be necessary on the homepage. I went straight to the navigation bar to find an explanation but was tripped up a bit because "How it Works" is the third link on the bar and not the first.

bayleo: good point, maybe we should change the order on the bottom navigation bar..

Re: Rate/Review my startup - streamfile

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Post by kimovski » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 9:21 PM UTC

mmelin wrote: post #31

This is a very useful service, kimovski, and I wish you the best of luck with selling it. I still think you should implement my suggestion of: a) having a splash screen explaining that the file isn't finished yet for recipients or b) sending all files with a content-type to make the browser download instead of trying to play media files. MMC @ WN.se :)

We got a bunch of feedback actually on the content-type issue. Definitely something to fix.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - streamfile

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Post by louislouis » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 10:24 PM UTC

cstejerean wrote: post #35

louislouis wrote: post #13

Love the simplicity of the site. Awesome service. I just sent a pic of myself to myself: http://www.streamfile.com/id/ZmkDG4QW1YhbiI90YNbCNgyM754Ke/1... It's a shame I cant view the jpg in the browser but great work nonetheless. Though I think bandwidth will get very costly quick.

I can view it in a browser just fine.

Oh yeh, looks like it works in IE but not FF. I get presented with a download box in FF

Re: Rate/Review my startup - streamfile

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Post by timm5 » Tue, Jul 22, 2008, 3:54 AM UTC

Great idea. Most likely recipients of a streamfile dont know what a "stream" as opposed to a "file" so in the recipients email, the subj shouldnt be "you have a new stream..." it should be "You have a file...". This will help minimize users passing it over as spam.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - streamfile

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Post by cstejerean » Tue, Jul 22, 2008, 4:08 AM UTC

louislouis wrote: post #54

cstejerean wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can view it in a browser just fine.

Oh yeh, looks like it works in IE but not FF. I get presented with a download box in FF

I was trying Safari so I'm guessing it's only FF that's broken.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - streamfile

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Post by kimovski » Tue, Jul 22, 2008, 6:11 AM UTC

timm5 wrote: post #55

Great idea. Most likely recipients of a streamfile dont know what a "stream" as opposed to a "file" so in the recipients email, the subj shouldnt be "you have a new stream..." it should be "You have a file...". This will help minimize users passing it over as spam.

Good point, thanks.