So I woke up to the news that WeTransfer is currently unavailable for Indian users. Reason isn't still totally clear and I thought this was a hoax but then, I saw an official press release from WeTransfer about the news.
A friend sent a message saying maybe it's an opportunity for MiDrive Transfer (https://transfer.midrive.io) Why that's true, am still kinda clueless how to capitalise on this.
Nice opportunity Tobby! Might be good to share some background on your project for those here not familiar. If you had some Google Ads credit (or could find a voucher) you could bid on the term 'WeTransfer' perhaps to capitlise on some of the traffic?
Try and make a blog post about it on the site, perhaps have a chance of picking up some SEO traffic on people looking it up also. Maybe a page on your site titled "WeTransfer Alternative India", I guess that will be a hot search topic.
Submit MiDrive on here: https://alternativeto.net/software/wetransfer/ and try get some votes. That site already appears on page one for most "alternative to" queries.
MiDrive was already introduced here: https://webwide.io/threads/why-i-created-another-file-transfer-platform-midrive.467/
And topic of/in some other threads.
Regarding the opportunity: I think at first it will be an investment business to onboard and bind new customers.
After this you can convert them into paying customers by providing a pro plan with higher limits or more features and try to convince them to use MiDrive cloud storage.
I still believe that Ads in some way, like carbon add, could be also a way to monetize.
Thank you @Gummibeer. We actually have some paid features now and have a few customers so that's a plus. The cloud storage feature is becoming more and more important so that's in the works now.
Sure, that's why I said that it will be an investment at first.
And having an open/visible way how you monetize free plan is better than having users assuming that you monetize the data itself. Do you? 😜