Would love to comment with feedback but I'm not techincal enough to use it! Sounds like a time-saver though. Do you have any plan with Dotfilehub? Sell it as a product, keep it free, accept donations if it becomes widely used...?
Thanks for the information! Though I'd like to be able to initiate the sweeping process for my files more often, maybe you can charge for such requests?
I like this idea. I'm going to look into adding a small annual plan. BTW, currently you never lose access to your files even if you don't pay so feel free to use the site for free and wait until I get the annual plan in.
How do you plan on monetizing this? It looks very useful and I would likely pay for it. I'd especially pay if everything is hosted locally and not shared with anyone
I haven't tried it out yet but I really, really like the idea of saving all my online activities to my computer. I put a lot of effort and I actually spend time worrying about how to make sure these things will not get lost when these companies go out of business or decide to delete old entries, etc. So, I look forward to trying this out!
And, I agree with another post here which says you need to emphasize that it is open source (and with local storage) vs. a startup which will fail/get purchased and then all my data is gone.
Thanks, I totally agree. That's why I made the code public so you can see what's being run. A friend very privacy-minded told me maybe a desktop app could be used by those who don't want to upload their documents so that's something I'm currently exploring
What would be interesting would be a) ability to sell entire folders and b) ability to automatically generate sell links for files. Combined, you could create an instataneous online storefront automatically.
I am a currently planning a project that might be able to make good use of Sellbox. :) we'll see how that works.
Thank you!
My thinking is to start with donations. There is no such thing as a free service. If people get value from using it to upload anonymously and they want to keep it going, makes sense to donate.
In the future I could also add a subscription account for additional features, access to an API, bigger upload limits, transformations, greater ability to organise, etc.
DocHack.us is my latest project for DalessioEngineering offers documents and general files hosting (images,archives etc), free to signup and to use and you get unlimited disk space. Upload your photos, documents, host your videos, and share them with friends and family.
Looking for feedback! Thanks
"Startup idea: Create a site where folks can send you the files that
they need to be published, e.g., PDFs, that you then make a "bundle" out
of with some form of file compression (perhaps something called .tar
files?), then make those into an .iso image, and finally burn that to
DVD.
That is, I'd create something that would take the files you give it
(either from a web form or by uploading a file), and create a
.tar.bz2 file containing the .bz2-format copies of those files.
Then I'd take that .tar.bz2 file and create a .iso image from it.
And finally I'd burn that .iso to a DVD.
The .iso image would be an exact copy of the .tar.bz2 file,
except it would contain the files compressed."
My product is a tool that you can select some part of web page to convert it into various formats (CSV,TXT,Images...etc.). It is still under development.
I think this service is a little like http://www.korekt.me/. Someone will need it, but scattered worldwide. How to reach them is hard.
I don't see the point. You seem to be aiming to be a drop-box competitor, and hosting the files yourself. You don't have a GUI and barely have an alpha for the CLI.
There are other projects that already do uploads to certain file hosting websites (like http://code.google.com/p/plowshare/ for instance) and those are totally free. (Well, at least that one. I haven't ever wanted it, so I had to search.)
Your website doesn't actually -show- anything and your signup has to be the worst I've ever seen. (Send me an email? Really? With the alternative being to give you an email address and then sit on our thumbs and hope.)
If you add a hot key that allows the user to automatically upload the file/image etc. it would save steps and differentiate you from email.
I'd probably use it, and may even pay for it depending on the price.
EDIT: Just because I am price sensitive doesn't mean others are (don't price it low on my comment). You also may have some lockin with this since you will have their files so keep that in mind when pricing.
Interesting. Would love to see some screenshots/tour (nothing fancy) before signing up though. What I understood from the homepage: it's basically a place to upload/version/share your files?
I've been working on various underlying components for this for a few months now. The components are part of a larger vision, but this site is the start of it.
This site is a very simple concept - upload documents and they're converted to PDF for you. The remainder of my plan builds on this, so I'm wanting to make sure that this core feature works really well. So, I thought that there's no better way than to launch it as a stand-alone website.
It's currently free to use until I can feel like charging for it is the right thing to do. I also require user accounts because it helps to future proof the service by allowing me to organized files on a per-user basis.
I'm also interested in any feedback positive or negative! Sorry for the initial posting with the incorrect URL, too. I specifically meant to not do that but ended up doing it, somehow. Thanks.
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