It looks really nice, what are your use cases? Do you expect to build a Scribd competitor?
How will you fight spam? (when I search for a book I'm interested in, I get a lot of Google Docs and Dropboxes and stuff with the search terms and a link to shady sites)
And legal risks? I'm pretty sure many of the documents I'm seeing are not free.
Are you based in Lima, Perú? Are you thinking of going to Startup Chile?
PD: My native language is Spanish, but for those browsing for English documents (probably most of the HN crowd) do you provide any functionality?
Scribd: We don't expect to compete with Scribd. We think there is a lot of space to find a different niche, but in order to get to that we basically need to tread a very similar path as Scribd's.
Language: The website is translated automatically for all Latin American Countries and defaults to english for the rest of the world. The only difference is, when you're browsing in english, you only get english documents and when you're browsing in spanish you get both spanish and english documents.
Legal: The way we're approaching the legal situation is by removing any document that is reported and requesting appropriate proof of the copyright claim.
Spam: We fight spam by allowing the users themselves to moderate the content, much like medium or even hacker news itself.
Startup Chile: As far as Startup Chile goes, we haven't thought of going there. Have you been there yourself? Any hints or advice you could share with us? :)
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 20.3 ms ] threadHow will you fight spam? (when I search for a book I'm interested in, I get a lot of Google Docs and Dropboxes and stuff with the search terms and a link to shady sites)
And legal risks? I'm pretty sure many of the documents I'm seeing are not free.
Are you based in Lima, Perú? Are you thinking of going to Startup Chile?
PD: My native language is Spanish, but for those browsing for English documents (probably most of the HN crowd) do you provide any functionality?
Language: The website is translated automatically for all Latin American Countries and defaults to english for the rest of the world. The only difference is, when you're browsing in english, you only get english documents and when you're browsing in spanish you get both spanish and english documents.
Legal: The way we're approaching the legal situation is by removing any document that is reported and requesting appropriate proof of the copyright claim.
Spam: We fight spam by allowing the users themselves to moderate the content, much like medium or even hacker news itself.
Startup Chile: As far as Startup Chile goes, we haven't thought of going there. Have you been there yourself? Any hints or advice you could share with us? :)
Also, what tech are you using to display the documents/pdfs?