Best business model for my MVP?

For an MVP, I think you’d need to experiment a little bit with a few different models and see which one sticks.

You could start by making some (educated) guesses about who the ideal user would be—here are some ways to think about it:

• is it privacy conscious consumers who are concerned about giving their data away to “the cloud”?
• is it some business/enterprise use case who need to move files around but need to ensure that they don’t get stored anywhere? (I’m sure there is... I just don’t know offhand... think about places where there’s sensitive data moving between businesses like contracts, PII, etc)

The business use case would be a higher price point, but be a very different selling motion and require different things in your product. You’d have to have much stronger guarantees about how your service handles data. The consumer use case would be a low price point, lower barrier to entry, but likely potential to reach more customers.

That’s how I’d think about this one :) good luck!

Agree that you need to develop some use cases.

My instinct is that there would not be much of a consumer market for this at MVP level. There are already so many options in this space and I'm not sure the privacy aspect would be enough of a drive.

When I think of areas that need super secure file transfer I think government and military - what do they currently use to achieve this task?

Are there any cases where businesses/organisations are legally prevented from something being stored in a 3rd party server? Maybe you could do some research on GDPR restrictions where there might be some obscure niche that actually can't legally transfer files in that manner? Health providers? Hospitals?

I use privacy focused tools and peopole would benefit from solutions like this. Would it be possible to decentralize this using IPFS or Blockstack solutions? I'm using Send from Firefox and https://envelop.app/.