Topic: BitCoinTorrentz.com - Torrent Download Service - page 27. (Read 57203 times)

Hey guys. It seems I'm not as "offline" as I thought I'd be during my vacation. So glad I brought this old tiny computer. I'm learning to type on the miniature keyboard, too .

Of course I have to add my 2 cents:

About the on-site ads: Please don't! It's a service I pay for and there should be no ads whatsoever. Ads just make a site look so much less serious and greedy. After all I pay for this service. This also applies when I don't register. I really like not having to register (although I did, for the referral stuff). Am I not a valued customer if I don't register and have to look at ads? Please give this good thought before you go that route, you wont be able to measure how many people are driven away by this, please don't underestimate the negative effect ads have on people, especially on a pay-site.

4 BTC revenue: wow! I first thought: hell guys, don't get too excited, a large portion came from my wallet, but then I realized I was off by an order of a magnitude. It's really reassuring the service gets used so much. Assuming an average download size of 0.5 GB that'd be about 80 purchases, right? That'd be over 10% of the people going from visit to purchase. Awesome numbers!

cheers and keep up the great work.

Just a quick THANK YOU to whoever sent the 0.5 BTC donation just now!
I don't know if you'll see this message, but if you do, you have my sincere gratitude.

Yeah, the reception has been better than I had even imagined! I'm monitoring my Google Analytics stats obsessively! 3,776 page views since the site went online, 620 unique visitors total. And it's growing every day.

Also, I have added a Facebook Like and Google+1 widget to the top-right of the website header. If you like the site, why not share the link with your friends and circles!

Even at the old rate of 0.1 BTC per GB, that's over 40 GB downloaded through the service, and in actuality probably much more after you lowered the rates.  Seems to be off to a very popular start!

I'm trying to think of other things I could download to help you out, but there's only so many times you can upgrade Knoppix, ya know? 

And for interested shareholders, the service has generated total earnings of 4.01679 btc since launch (12 days ago).
This is WAY above my initial growth targets, so we are well on track.

I like the suggestion of using advertising revenue to subsidize free trials of the service. Very interesting indeed. I may put up a listing on operation fabulous, where advertisers can bid for ad-space though their platform, saving me from having to implement a whole section of the website for potential advertisers.

I don't like the idea of having too many gaudy advertisements on a fee-paying website though.
But like you said, you could remove the ads for registered users.

Thanks once again HostFat! You are full of good suggestions.
I will get out my calculator...

Idea:

I'm sure that you have seen Dailybitcoins.
What do you think about doing quite the same thing?

You could offer banner spaces ( buyable with Bitcoin ) around the website.
Than you will be able to offer also some free trials, every days! ( few MBs or no more then 1 GB, you will do your math )

You are also offering a streaming service, you could add a banner/videoad here ( as youtube does ), before showing the streming video/link.

If you do some good math, you will be able to give an even cheaper service ( more customers, more ads ... )

If someone doesn't like at all these ads, he can just pay to disable them.

Thanks for pointing it out to me mate!

On another note, I have started are rather vigorous Operation Fabulous advertising campaign. Not sure how OF stacks up against other advertising platforms. Thought I'd give it a shot anyway, since they accept bitcoin!

I have also made some new banners for the affiliate program, which will be uploaded to the members area soon. These are the current banners that I am running on the operation fabulous campaign.

A 468x60 Banner: http://www.bitcointorrentz.com/images/btcbanner_468x60.png


A 125x125 Square: http://www.bitcointorrentz.com/images/bct_square_125_125.png


And a 117x30 Button: http://www.bitcointorrentz.com/images/bct_button_117_30.png

1280x1024

Anyway, now it's ok

What screen resolution are you using?
I have made the navigation bar shorter, how does it look now?

I didn't deliberately put the logout link right below the donations tab for psychological reasons,
just to clear that up!

That should be fixed now, along with a few other minor bugs I found while browsing using firefox.
I have been using mainly Safari to test it at the moment.

Thanks for that mate. Will have a look at it.

Just FYI

Part of the 'How does it work' list on the top right is cut off when I view it in firefox::

I have made some significant changes to the BitCoinTorrentz code, that anyone who is interested should check out.

I have completely removed IP recording of new registrations, and combined user registration with affiliate registration. When users register, they get an immediate 20% discount from the base guest user rate. They then get a subsequent 10% discount off their fee for every further 20GB they download, until they reach a net 50% discount, at which point their fee remains static at this level.

If a user chooses not to register, they do not have to, but are charged the base guest rate of 0.05 btc/gb.

I have also created a new "Members Area" instead of the referral program page I had before. This page tracks (completely anonymously... of course) the volume of your downloads, your current discount rate and percentage, as well as your referral statistics. I have also added a convenient "Logout" button at the top right that you can use to clear your session.

Note: existing affiliates can log in with the same username (i.e. their email address) and password as before, to avail of the 20% discount, and monitor their referral statistics. All IP addresses that had been stored for affiliates have now been deleted from the database.

I have changed around the look a little of the site too, padded out the FAQ and did some major tinkering under the hood. I did lot of work today... I feel like I need a bloody holiday myself now! What is Korea like this time of year molecular?

So yeah, just have a look at the new layout, and if you have any, I would appreciate any and all feedback from both users and shareholders alike. The financial statistics feature is the next thing on my to-do list.

Another use case: Sitting in hostel in Korea and downloading pretty large file from bitcointorrentz. Would not be possible without, because of limited access obviously and also because I use a very old netbook (first asus eee-pc). Nice!

lmao. This has to go in the books. I think I'll make it a thread: "Who popped your bitcoin cherry?". Nice one.

Maybe several modes of offering downloads:

a) I don't care about how long this stays up - delete it after seven days.
b) I don't want anyone downloading this except my guy - expire it after 4 hours, uploader must refresh link for downloader
c) 24 hours?

Right now, the files will be deleted after 7 days with a highly secure, 7-pass data overwrite. But now that you mention it, reducing the duration of this "download window" could indeed help prevent the distribution of the links on forums. Great idea!

As the service is not really designed for long term storage of files, I think perhaps a 2 day limit might actually be a good idea. It shouldn't take users more than 48 hours to download their files.

But then again, that might limit the number of high-filesize users interested in the service. If someone wanted to download an archive of 10gb+ say, it might take longer than 48 hours to download that, if they have a slow connection.

Maybe 3 is the lucky number?

Would there be away to make the link expire after a certain amount of days? I'm not a programmer so I don't know how hard it would be.