Show HN: Real-time file sharing site • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

#101

Post by bigd » Tue, Nov 05, 2013, 3:37 AM UTC

AWESOME I'm already addicted

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

#102

Post by ww520 » Tue, Nov 05, 2013, 3:57 AM UTC

What's the bandwidth cost for this kind of app? I'm always afraid a popular rampup would incur a huge bandwidth bill for sites like this.

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

#103

Post by antocv » Tue, Nov 05, 2013, 8:02 AM UTC

Geee wrote: post #39

This thing will explode. Get ready to monetize or shut it down :) Easy thing you could do is rate limit transfers by default and offer higher bandwidth with a small bitcoin payment.

Please dont go down this route it leaves bad taste.

Any site which segregates its users, oppreses those non-paying, poor people, isnt attractive at least in my book.

An alternative is to do like reddit, offer pay-for-services in exchange for something more, not take away functionality from those poor users to force some kind of payments.

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

#104

Post by Fundlab » Tue, Nov 05, 2013, 9:22 AM UTC

Is there an upload limit? Is it possible to share a 5gb file?

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

#105

Post by zz1 » Tue, Nov 05, 2013, 7:09 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #77

zz1 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of related (in fact OT): Any news about the torrent? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226373

Uploaded ~100GB of it to S3, wasn't thinking enough to check torrent size limits. S3 limits torrents to 5GB objects. Want me to provide personal info for you to get in touch with me? I can mail you a SATA drive with the archive on it.

Glad to get in touch at d.pitrolo [the usual sign in the middle] gmx [dot] com

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

#106

Post by novaleaf » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 1:14 AM UTC

lol. clicking on those pictures... "for adults only", "NSFW"

good thing i'm the first one here this morning....

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

#107

Post by zz1 » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 11:21 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #77

zz1 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of related (in fact OT): Any news about the torrent? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226373

Uploaded ~100GB of it to S3, wasn't thinking enough to check torrent size limits. S3 limits torrents to 5GB objects. Want me to provide personal info for you to get in touch with me? I can mail you a SATA drive with the archive on it.

Otherwise, yes, if you provide me contact info, I'll get in touch.