PDFy – Instant PDF Host
Hello,<p>I'm one of the founders of Scribd.  You might be surprised to hear this, but I applaud the PDFy service and am glad someone has built it.<p>Scribd is not designed to be a simple, lightweight way to host a PDF file.  Yes, this was the original idea of Scribd 8 years ago, but we've long since left that path.  We see that market as having been made irrelevant by a combination of Google Docs, Dropbox/Box.net/etc., and better PDF readers now built into browsers like Chrome.  There may be room for someone to build an imgur like service for PDFs too, but that's not what we're doing.<p>Scribd is really good for two things:<p>1)  Scribd is a subscription reading service ("Netflix for books") where you can read over 400,000 professionally published books for $9 / month, including thousands of new releases and best-sellers.  It doesn't include many programming books unfortunately (yet!), but if you like to read other things, it's a good deal.<p>2)  Scribd is good for serious authors and publishers who want to publish a lot of content and organize it well.  For example, the World Bank uploads thousands of research reports to Scribd and organizes them into collections.  And many serious authors publish books and other writings with us.<p>We're sorry that we haven't done a good enough of explaining who we are as it's changed over the years.  And we're sorry if you've been frustrated trying to use Scribd for something it's not particularly good at.<p>To joepie91_ - I think it's cool that you've started this.  We have some experience building document hosting services, and I can see you are already encountering some issues we've worked on, like DMCA and copyright.  If you'd like to talk, we'd be more than happy to help you out.