Cites lackluster user base numbers.
In a post on the official AllPeers blog, Matthew Gertner, the company’s CTO, informs readers that it has decided to shut down operations after failing to garner a sufficient number of users to please investors.
For the unfamiliar, AllPeers was an the extension for Mozilla’s Firefox that allowed users to create personal file-sharing networks with others powered with the speed and reliability of BitTorrent.
Unfortunately t he extension apparently failed to gain enough popularity to satisfy the hopes of investors and thus forced the company to close it down.
From the AllPeers blog:
It is with deep regret that we inform our users, friends and fans that we will be shutting down the AllPeers service today. We are tremendously proud of the product that our team has built, and we remain convinced of the potential of adding social features like file sharing to the web browser. However, we have not achieved the kind of growth in our user base that our investors were expecting, and as a result we are not able to continue operating the service.
P2P has always been tough to monetize and this development highlights this fact. File-sharers are obviously accustomed to free content, and so unless developers offer something entirely revolutionary people aren’t very likely to part with their hard-earned cash – especially these days.
wow that is a bummer.
Boomer The Dog
This is exaclty what AllPeers was able to do.
It’s just sad.
I’ve seen the name AllPeers but never went to look at it it was off of my radar for some reason. When there’s too much publicity about something it’s part of the scene too fast and then it fades into the background for me. That’s what might have happened and also I didn’t know anyone who used AllPyrs.
What my friends and me need is an easy way to share files one-on-one with simple tools that are already on the computer like a browser and anyone can be the server and anyone can receive.
Sure you can send an mp3 through e-mail but video files are too big. IM would be okay but most of the time it fails maybe because of router port firewall issues. Bit Torrent has worked but it can be hard to create a torrent with it. Grandma has to be able to do this and she doesn’t have the time to play around with technical issues so it should be as easy as clicking on a link in e-mail that opens up the browser.
Creation would be easy too something like a right click on the file you want to send selecting Send-It or something and a web link is created right next to the file that can then be attached to a letter to the recipient. When the recipient clicks they’d get the usual ‘Where would you like to save this file?’ message from the browser. Oh and it would be good to do away with the central server so you will always be able to use the program.
never heard of it till now :S
It looks great to use… i think there are much more people like me that never heard of it but would love to use it :S
Ahh I still remember what a stir I caused with this extension back in the good old days. This certainly takes me back.
Unfortunately they were never impressed with my little review of the thing – though the extra publicity shouldn’t have been all that bad. If there is anyone looking to hire online web advertisers I’d definitely recommend the people behind this app as they definitely did a top notch job at flooding the net with this extension. Even got some publicity from TorrentFreak. Their podcaster commented how both of us should STFU. What a hoot!
Note to self: Cars no longer an immediate threat to personal safety.
This was a free plugin and you could share content with anybody as long as you added people to the directory on who to share with.
Good bye AllPeers What a sad day