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by DanPir 4199 days ago
A freemium model of course is needed if the whole thing should be successful. About filtering the content... well, that is an interesting topic... how Dropbox ant its competitors deal with that?
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They use hashes of known material, and in some cases, image recognition technology for more detailed review.

Files that are shared receive more attention. This helps since most files on Dropbox aren't shared. A file-sharing application would not be able to use that filter, obviously.

Do you think would work the concept that the platform would not be responsible for the files uploaded?
Probably would at first. Go ahead and build it!
I am not sure how many "competitors" there are already
My opinion is that file sending is a market that can support a lot of competitors. Maybe start with a basic prototype and see if you want to continue.