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Please rate my startup: ZigzagCloud - A Mobile File Management System.

#1
I'd like to get some early feedback about my new startup, Zigzag Cloud: A Mobile File Management System for Business. http://zigzagcloud.com/

The goal of Zigzag Cloud is to provide a dead simple, and secure way for managers to get company files out to their employees iOS devices (iPads initially). These files could be Sales Content, Training Material, Board Papers or anything else you want to view on your iPad or iPhone.

Our core features are around security, tagging and permissions.

Having large "health clients" as foundation clients, security is really important to us; we have end to end encryption and a users & groups permissions structure that ensures that client's files are safe.

The app has been designed so that users can sync files to their device for offline use, but must check in to the server once every 5 days to maintain access to their locally stored files.

Today we support all the MS Office Documents, iWork, Text Files, Images, Music, Video and of course PDFs.

We also can view HTML docs within the app which has lead to some interesting experimentation around HTML5 based apps within Zigzag Cloud.

For the techies: We're running on Rails 3 with nginx and Postgresql. On the client side we've got a talented iOS team which has written the app from scratch.

If you feel like telling us about what your dream Mobile File Management System would be like, let us know too, we really want to hear about what our (future) users want!

Thanks in advance! Marcus

Please rate my startup: ZigzagCloud - A Mobile File Management System.
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#4
I think it's a great concept and the site looks professional. I'm not sure about the viability of the pricing plan though, but I don't have enough knowledge about the costs involved and the typical usage profiles to make a better suggestion. However, I did get the impression that your competitors (such as Dropbox) may offer more for less.

One question though: on the front page you say that people can try ZigzagCloud one month for free. But on the pricing page there seems to be an entirely free usage tier without any time limit. You should probably clear that up somehow.

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#5
My suggestions on pricing:

- severely limit free plan, to maybe 2 users, 200MB

- make currently free plan quite cheap, maybe $20, so it would appeal more to small businesses.

Everything else, especially the design, is very professional, and inspires trust. Still trying out the app, but at a glance, it seems really nice.

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post #6

You ought to say more about security. I would never touch a document solution that doesn't include technical details about its security measures and credentials.

Thanks for the tip Sunchild,

We've built up a PDF on security. We should really put this information in our FAQ at the very least.

Cheers,

Marcus (@schappi)

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post #6

You ought to say more about security. I would never touch a document solution that doesn't include technical details about its security measures and credentials.

Right, this does look very interesting (and any sort of Sharepoint integration is going to appeal to the "enterprise" market) but in light of recent events I'm not even considering any "cloud" service that doesn't employ encrypted storage and extensive logging.

If you did those two things you'd be safer than dropbox which is something else that lubricates sales to the business market.

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