“move fast and break things” almost killed our startup on arrival

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by festivilia • 7 years ago

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festivilia8• 7 years ago

"It's practically stupid to start another File Transfer Service in 2019". That was what almost all my friends said when I told them about MiDrive Transfer.

I decided to build it because I was frustrated with using other services. I felt a little more latitude should be given to the basic users.

2 months after the thought, I launched MiDrive Transfer (https://transfer.midrive.io). Transfer large files for free. Full featured include

Free for all to use.

Doesn't require you to sign-up

No ads

Up to 10GB file size for free (compared to 2GB for other platforms)

30 days expiry date (compared to 7 days for other platforms)

Simple and responsive

Everything that added up as a premium feature on other platforms was simply free. e.g. Password Protection.

red0point• 7 years ago

And how will you monetize it when all premium features are free? Will there be premium-premium features that require payment?

festivilia8• 7 years ago

Lol.. well, we have some monetisation ideas. If you tested the platform, you will notice a gif when your upload is complete, we are considering using that space for brand advertisment. We have other ideas too and like I said, they are all still skechy but our focus right now is to see that this is a valuable platform for everyone

anotheryou2• 7 years ago

https://trasfer.midrive.io/ gives me a "server not found"

JohnFen2• 7 years ago

The link on that page is missing an 'n'. This one works: https://transfer.midrive.io/

festivilia8• 7 years ago

Thanks!

WallStUrinal• 7 years ago

write fast and break links

festivilia8• 7 years ago

Apologies!!! It's https://transfer.midrive.io

JohnFen2• 7 years ago

In my opinion, "move fast and break things" turned out to be one of the more corrosive and harmful philosophies to come out of SV.

festivilia8• 7 years ago

Loud it for those at the back sir!!!

sundbry• 7 years ago

It doesn't mean ship untested crap, it means don't let fear of breaking something prevent you from making progress.

festivilia8• 7 years ago

Lol. Fair point. But I feel there is a very thin line between your 2 statements. Fortunately, it helped us with progress

spazx• 7 years ago

https://xkcd.com/1428/

barbarbar• 7 years ago

It probably means different things to different people. Perhaps useful on a website where you upload funny images of yourself and friends. But not a good idea for anything else.

anotheryou2• 7 years ago

So what's different to say yousendit?

I miss the option to share via link instead of by mail. I'd even argue that a link to copy and a few share-buttons of which email is just one might work best today (though heavy files might be more desktop focused after all, so I'm not 100% sure. Easy to track once built though.).

festivilia8• 7 years ago

I really don't understand why I have to sign up on a service to transfer a file in 2019. Users will be more motivated to do any other thing after they have done what they came to the platform to do. This is one of the selling points for MiDrive Transfer.

Also, you can actually send via a link to others. So when you send a file via email, there is also a link you can send outside the email to another party to download the files

“move fast and break things” almost killed our startup on arrival

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