Peerflix ends 12 month beta
Peerflix landed a story on Slashdot here yesterday for the announcement that they are leaving beta.
Peerflix has a tremendous head start on us, to the extent it might not even be considered a head start. They claim having already 80 000 DVDs, and their website seems perfectly complete with Disclaimers, Privacy statements, online payment systems and all. They are looking forward to move into the CDs and Games business soon too, which is some pretty bad news for us, since even if we have a better mousetrap, there still is the Network effect that might prove itself a barrier.
On the good side though is that they might be infringing on Amazon’s Terms of Use, since they only provide small links to Amazon to buy stuff, and that is clearly not their goal. We would be selling on the marketplace, which I am sure Amazon would prefer since they would earn a 15% commission.
Apart from that, Mr Swophit, how was the show ? Well the Star-based value system is taken-care of, and Direct-select is well on to be completed today: the DVD section works, search does too, I’ll just have to change some parameters and add some variables to get the other selections to work as well.
September 21st, 2005 at 11:40 am
As clearly stated in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “Don’t Panic”
One thing we might think about is to up play the combination of Games, CDs and DVDs. We might contemplate to require 3 items combined not for each category and have a central Inventory section rather than 3 seperate.
That way we will up-play the Shopping as well. Meaning the first things you see it what you can get not what you can get rid of.
How does Peerflix avoid being flooded with Ricky Martin DVDs?
September 21st, 2005 at 5:05 pm
welcome to the market!
users can flood us with Ricky Martin DVDs, but if other users won’t take them then they’re better off listing other titles
btw, you should consider the other players – titletrader and barterbee