UploadCafe.com is shutting down!
 

Got this email today... :Oh crap


Somebody hurry up and take over this project please... If that site would have ever worked properly it would have been a great tool. :thumbsup

How often to these sites actually make changes to the upload process though? I didn't think it was that often.
WG

I know of about 500 more clones that are closing, some are putzing thru 2 million a month and are on their last "donation" while seeking a buyer....

They simply make no revenue...

This site was doomed to fail from the beginning.

wewps my bad, don't assume what the site is.. lol wtf is this site... maybe thats why it's failing? lol

Uploadcafe.com has a traffic rank of: 1,27844,154

what was it?

tube sites in general?

i thought some of them were making bank :helpme

The idea is great and if done successfully would be a great tool, just not sure of all the programming intricacies they elude to that seem to prevent them from going forward.

Oh I see.. so it submits videos to all the tube sites :) Not a bad idea... I guess.

If I really thought a lot of people would use this I would write this code myself. But buying the headache already created is not for me.

sounds pretty bad, for free..

ok there's 25 tube sites out there, (speaking generally)

ok i upload my 10 meg file

250 megs trannsferred for one person for free... lol
can you see why it's closing now? times that by 1000

By the tone of the email, I get the impression it was the maintenence, not the bandwidth that was taking up their costs.
WG

everyone would use it....you simply don't have the skills, ambition, or man power to take care of such a project....there are dozens of large tube sites out there, all with changing web based API /packets etc.

you couldn't do it yourself if it was a full time job

now prove me wrong & make a free one for everybody.....

oh & tell us all how you would manage the accounts at the different sites

since one person uploading a titty would get an account killed

would you review each movie before it was uploaded, so you could keep the one account at each site?

tell us how you would manage that time.....

i would imagine an account is made for each person in the database for each site... so basically me signing up would actually have an individual account made for each tube site uploaded to, and then when abused that account would get closed...

perhaps the captcha systems is what is halting the progress here??

they should sit down and make this a pay model... it has potential... ii mean if I could upload my video to 119 tube sites with one upload and save 8 hours time, would I not pay $10 bucks for this?

you need to keep good ideas to yourself :2 cents:

But there is the possibility that they were crafty.

The video could be loaded on their website server that is sharing the DB with another lan server that is connected to the internet thru a Time Warner cable account. :1orglaugh

What you smoking Willis??? :1orglaugh

If "everybody" was using it they would have no problem getting financing to hire the programmers.

How Cares, Wtf Evr

you sure didn't address the rest of the questions posed....

I have a zillion business web ideas, I dont mind splurting.. matter of fact when everyone use to splurt, thats when this board was a great place to hang out....

You make your own acount on those tube sites, and the you enter your account info into your uploadcafe account and then uploadcafe was supposed to upload the video on to those tube sites through your account own account on those sites.

I imagine a lot of people tried, it simply never worked. (for me)

If you've already got your own accounts, one not run roboform one time on each site & then you've basically got uploadcafe on your computer....

the problem is they simply tried to go after too many different TYPES of sites. If you were to do this with say the top 10 ADULT sites you'll do well. Sticking to a niche is the only decent way of doing something like this.

Supporting this for a handfull of top adult sites is on my list of things to do now.

No, I didn't because I pondered the thought of just doing it myself and didn't want to reveal the answer to the problem.

Explanation :

There are two type of programmers.

1. Those who make it work today
2. Those who make it work forever*
(disclaimer: "forever" means an acceptable long time)

The issue with this site is a lack of "artificial intelligence".

The basic working of the internet does not change very much and connecting to a server to upload involves a set standard as defined on w3.org

Uploadcafe hired type 1 programmers...end of story

good idea, but not much of a money maker

that's unfortunate