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Excellent service! I tried it and it's very simple and easy to use. I'm curious... how does one initiate a P2P transfer between two computers using just browser technology?

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We built a reliable file transfer method on top of the peer-to-peer media streaming technology used by Chat-Roulette and its clones, RTMFP.

Which is a relatively recent addition to Flash.

Haha yeah, its a pretty awesome addition to Flash. I kind of gloss over that word because I hate Flash as much as the next hacker, but it provided a method to solve a problem that was plaguing John and I and was impossible to solve otherwise.

You should mention that it uses Flash. I have a Flash blocker installed, and when I tried Sendoid just now it simply failed to connect. I thought "What a piece of crap," and closed the tab.

Would love to read more about your solution. Am I correct to assume that your business model will focus on licensing this technology?

what are you using as the server? it's my understanding that RTMFP was only recently reverse-engineered.

Not sure what Sendoid uses, but there is a project called Cumulus that implements an RTMFP server in C++.

https://github.com/OpenRTMFP/Cumulus

Haven't tried it yet, but the code looks pretty good.

It's possible they are using Adobe Flash Server.

On the client I presume it is Adobe Air (?)

Wikipedia claims "RTMFP will not support file or document sharing.[citation needed]". Ha.

Well done, that's a great idea.

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