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Public MVP launch

by Ryan Badger

After my porn site fiasco, I built v1 of Uploadfiles in a weekend from a beach in Koh Phangan, Thailand, initially utilising AWS s3 as the file storage and delivery (a hard lesson learned).

V1 was a simple one pager, with a drag & drop file uploader that returned short URLs on upload completion.

No marketing or hard launch, I simply posted it on Hacker News and Reddit. Our first month saw 6,230 page views. By month 6 this was 500,000+ monthly page views.

, Founder of
ufile.io
 on October 11, 2019
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    Hey @ryanbadger, could you go into a bit more detail as to what you learned after working with AWS s3?

    kyrelldixon
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    4 years ago
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    Hey @ryanbadger

    What’s the porn fiasco? Sounds like a funny story. Please share if you’re willing!

    Shaunau
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    4 years ago
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