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by mineo 4699 days ago
If I understood the intention correctly, it's not about saving time downloading files when saving them from the internet to your computer or Dropbox, it's really about saving the time you spend uploading large files that you downloaded from the internet from your computer to your Dropbox. At least where I live the upload speeds on normal internet connections are way smaller than the download speeds, so what this app basically does (I think) is download the file to your Dropbox via their server, so you don't have to spend the time uploading the huge file to Dropbox because those guys did that part for you.
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Exactly!!

We also provide additional support to save the videos to your Dropbox for popular sites (including Youtube, Vimeo)

You need to add this whole message from this point up the tree onto your site front & centre.

-"Slow, costly internet connection? Save your bandwidth and download quotas by..." (identify problem)

-"Our service saves files from the internet directly to your dropbox without using your connection" (how it works)

-"Spending $x per yGB? At $4.99 per year you can save $z" (value proposition

-features (esp security), how it works (diagram?) pricing/signup

Good luck & congrats on your launch

Thank redact207! I ve created a `How it works` page and have added all the required info there http://boxmydownloads.com/how-it-works